The process of updating your BIOS for the Gigabyte system is an easy procedure. While the process is not the most modern but it gets the task accomplished. Gigabyte is known to release several updates to its motherboards, which include security patches and performance enhancements.
This article will explain the steps to change your BIOS settings on an Gigabyte-sized motherboard.
Utilizing Q Flash
Q Flash is the best method to upgrade your gigabyte motherboard. Contrary to ASUS which provides a number of ways to update you BIOS software, your choices of Gigabyte’s BIOS is rather limited.
Here’s how you can upgrade your BIOS on an gigabyte motherboard.
- Visit the support website of Gigabyte to download the most current BIOS update for your specific model.
- After the file has been downloaded as it is a zip file it’s time extract it. remove it.
- Insert a USB drive into your device.
- Format the drive in one of the following file formats.
- FAT32.
- FAT16.
- FAT12.
- Restart or close your computer. Turn it back on and wait for your computer to restart.
- Press the end key immediately after your computer starts up. You can also go to the BIOS section and press the F6 key to flash your BIOS.Once you’ve opened into the Q Flash Menu you’ll be able navigate through the menu by using the direction-specific arrow keys.
- After you’ve found the USB drive – appropriately called “Flash Drive” – press Enter.
- If you’ve got an updated BIOS file, you’ll now be in a position to upgrade you BIOS.
Setup Following the Update
After you’ve finished the update, you’ll notice the updated versions of your BIOS displayed on the BIOS screen. However, we’re not done. To make sure that the original BIOS settings haven’t changed by the latest update This is what you’ll need to do.
- Once your BIOS is updated, hit the delete button at the top of your keyboard.
- Choose “Load Optimized defaults”.
- Choose “Save and Exit Setting”.
You’ve successfully changed your BIOS and you’ve confirmed that there’s no conflict between your settings. When you are able to boot your Windows then we suggest checking your BIOS to see whether the settings listed below have been altered.
- “XMP”.XMP Profiles are profiles that overclock designed to increase your memory speed to the advertised value. Each speedy DDR4 memory comes with an XMP profile which needs to be altered by the BIOS in order for the RAM to work properly.
- The speed of the fan: A custom fan curve is typically configured in the BIOS in order to ensure the best cooling. Setting your BIOS settings to default could cause problems with the fan curve, or make your fan operate more actively or passively.
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- boot Drive: The Boot Drive is the place where your BIOS starts to find the OS. If you have several drives it is possible that you will not start your OS due to the fact that your boot drive has changed.
Conclusion
The process of updating your Gigabyte motherboard isn’t difficult to do. But, we’re shocked that there’s no multiple updates that include the capability to test updates on with a Gigabyte motherboard.
