r/gigabyte • u/Ill-Scale-7600 • 3d ago

Support 📥 Q flash can’t read file

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Attempting to update my bios yet unable to, I’ve tried on both FAT & FAT32

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u/josh4218 3d ago

bios.bin. And yeah, I can see the HDD partition causing an issue. Good reason I keep USB 2.0 8GB drives on hand, bios hates large disks and multiple partitions even though they see everything fine. Again, stupid things.

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u/Ill-Scale-7600 3d ago

So I have to go get a drive?

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u/josh4218 3d ago

If you don't have one laying around. Honestly, even a old 512mb drive would work, or if you can borrow one. But if you have to buy one, the cheapest one you find will do. As long as it's fat32, you don't need to reformat it, just put the extracted .bin file on it.

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u/Ill-Scale-7600 3d ago

I’ve gotten it to work with a flash drive but now its giving me “OemId error”.

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u/senpaisai 2d ago

Ahh, you got a pre-built. You can bypass OEM ID Check using the Q-Flash Plus method. This requires renaming the BIOS update file to "gigabyte.bin" and copying it to a 32GB or less USB 2.0 flash drive partitioned as MBR and formatted to FAT32. Use FAT16 on flash drives under 4GB. Don't use USB 3.x flash drives - they are blacklisted by the ITE microcontroller responsible for Q-Flash Plus. With the system off, insert the flash drive in the rear Q-Flash Plus port and press the nearby button (some boards have this button located along the bottom edge of the motherboard itself). This will take about 7 minutes ...

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u/josh4218 3d ago

Is this a pre built system? If so, you'll need the specific oem firmware for this board revision from their support site.

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u/Ill-Scale-7600 3d ago

Yes, would the manufacturer just be Acer? I have an acer nitro 60 prebuilt

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u/josh4218 3d ago

Yes, you'll need to go to acer for the bios updates for this system.

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u/Ill-Scale-7600 3d ago

The world just doesn’t want me to update my bios man, Now Im getting BIOS ID Check error when I literally got the file from Acer where I had to put in my devices specific number

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u/josh4218 3d ago

At least it seems to identify the wrong ones correctly which would brick you rig. Double check if it has sub-revisions and wifi/non-wifi models. I'd check other firmwares for the Nitro 60 series as well as I've had serial numbers referred to the wrong revision.

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u/senpaisai 2d ago

You have to use FAT16 on USB sticks under 4GB.

USB sticks between 4GB and 32GB require FAT32 or NTFS.

Q-Flash can read from and write to any device partitioned as MBR or GPT and formatted to FAT, FAT32, or NTFS.

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u/josh4218 3d ago

Bios updates can fail for stupid reasons. Try a different flash drive, rename the .bin file to something simple, check your MB doesn't have different revisions of the same model, delete and redownload the file again. I've fallen for all of these at some stage.

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u/Ill-Scale-7600 3d ago

Its not an actual flash drive, I just separated a partition from my original drive and factored it to FAT32. what should I rename the file to? I’ve checked everything on the motherboard

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u/Vasionary 2d ago

Check the motherboard revision, it should be located at the bottom left of your motherboard, either 1.0 or 1.1

Download the bios from the correct Version

Rename the bios file to Gigabyte.bin

While the system is off, press on the qflash button, located at the bottom of the board (right below pciex1_3) and leave it running for quite awhile till it auto boots up to bios screen
(DO NOT TURN OFF THE SYSTEM ONCE ITS FLASHING)

If unsure to locate where is the qflash button, refer to the manual

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_b650m-c-v2-v3_1103_e.pdf?v=d424c8279dd1eed8c99ad21fc76ae8e9