How To Use Gigabyte Q FLASH PLUS Bios Flash Button

[@mikesunboxing]

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[@UmbraChad]

Can i use it on a A520 aorus elite with the same process good sir?

[@sollitdude1]

ive got a question for ya, mike. does the q.flash plus option work when the original bios is faulty? i sometimes get the question that people tried to update the bios, but somehow couldnt, now their motherboard doesnt boot, obviously. would q.flash plus then be able to circumvent normal bios installation and make it work again?

[@fhttp]

@@UmbraChad Did it work

[@KeldonSlayer]

Thank you so much for this video, bought a B550 board and 5600G, needed to Q-Flash it to F13, and worked like a charm after seeing your video, the paper manual with the board says "find how to enable Q-Flash on the website", which was easier to just google and find this video, so thanks a ton!

[@SaberKittyZero]

All the affiliate links, no actual promised link to the bios.

[@ivantomic123456789]

Finally a perfect explanation of the "Gigabyte Q FLASH PLUS button". It's been almost two years since the video came out and everything worked perfectly on my B550 chipset. Thank you for this and like and subscribe are a must. Excellent job.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped! And welcome to the Channel :-)

[@acbye1]

Thanks for sharing. Kind of surprised I can't even find any detail instruction from Gigabyte.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it was helpful!

[@lucidox]

Yeah this was way different to what the manual said. It said to turn off the system, insert the usb with files on it, and press the button. Now I learnt you need to take out everything first...

[@KITPUNK]

Came here to say this. Incredibly helpful as all other guides assume the PC is already assembled.

[@mikesunboxing]

@@KITPUNK Glad I helped :-)

[@KoreanAsian]

Same for me. I tried to update my BIOS but it seems like it failed... This video saved me.

[@jaredwisnia4152]

I don’t normally comment but I just have to express how much gratitude I feel towards you for making this video. You saved me so much time and frustration man! Sub earned

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped! And welcome to the Channel :-)

[@_DigitalData]

Hey Mike, just followed this tutorial earlier today and the bios updated with no issues. I managed to complete my first ever pc build with no issues, thanks in no small part to your video. Cheers!

[@mikesunboxing]

Great to hear!

[@WaaveLvl0]

This video was fantastic. I'm finally upgrading my whole system after nearly eight years and trying to wrap my head around a lot of new technology that I haven't kept up with was making me super nervous, now I'm slightly less so. It's good to hear that flashing the bios isn't such a potential death sentence as it used to be, without this I may have waited until January just to avoid dealing with it (which isn't exactly preferable, my cpu is failing pretty hard). Q Flash is such an immense feature as well, I didn't even know it was a thing until today.

[@mikesunboxing]

Feel free to join our Discord chat if you want any advice or just to chat tech discord.gg/gaeeDPw

[@connorxfor2838]

This video has been a lifesaver for me this morning! For anyone in my situation, this method also works for the X570I Aorus Pro Wifi. After you press the Q-Flash button with the USB drive installed, the PSU will start up and the orange LED will start flashing (This light is also visible through slots in the integrated IO shield). The flashes are slow at first, then quicker, and after about 3-5 minutes the flashing orange light will turn off. Note: the PSU may or may not automatically turn itself off after the light goes off, so you may need to manually turn the PSU off. So far this method has worked flawlessly on two of these X570-I Aorus Pro Wifi boards, both of which did not work with my new 5600X CPU beforehand, and now do. Thanks so much for this video, your clear, concise instructions have saved me an awful lot of stress and disappointment!

[@mikesunboxing]

glad it was helpful and thanks for the detailed comments and your take on it

[@mandargite]

After Q Flash does it require re-installation of windows and other software?

[@connorxfor2838]

@@mandargite as far as I'm aware it should not, no

[@mikesunboxing]

@@mandargite No it doesn't

[@sligoquadcopter]

Thank you Mike. On a new build, just bought Gigabyte B550i Aorus AX and waiting for 5900X. I could not find clear instructions until I came across your excellent video.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help!

[@ukie_power]

Got a new motherboard Gigabyte x570 gaming x and Ryzen 5600x. No matter what I did it wouldn't post. Until I've seen your video! You are a life savior!!! Thank you so much, after many frustrating hours of troubleshooting I almost sent back my motherboard. I can not express how grateful I am!

[@mikesunboxing]

Ukie_Power Thanks for the feedback! Please consider sharing the video and information on your social media, it really helps to get the message out there.

[@Phoenix-mn8qp]

I'm glad that we don't have to hassle ourselves with an old processor to just update the bios anymore.

[@mikesunboxing]

Yes, it's a lot easier :-)

[@boxfan6656]

I watched this over a year later and a key piece of info in here was that the mobo needed to be bare - no CPU etc. My X570 UD actually shut down in the middle while I was updating the BIOS properly. As expected, it bricked the mobo. After watching your video, I tried it and it worked! I took about 5 minutes. Red-orange LED blinks at first and while it's writing the BIOS, the LED flashes more rapidly. Less than 5 minutes later, it shutdown - leading me to believe it didn't work. But wow - it really worked!

[@mikesunboxing]

glad to hear it helped, hopefully you have a working system now?

[@VineethChandran03]

I performed this qflash plus bios update having my CPU, GPU, ram sticks and SSD connected, and it worked properly. Thanks for the tutorial! Motherboard: B550M DS3H AC

[@MrXyyph]

My Savior. I almost lost all hope until I found your Video. Bought myself a brand new Ryzen 5600x on launch day. I put the new CPU an a newly bought Motherboard. (Aorus 570 Ultimate, all new build) and almost went mental because the "dram" led kept turning on. Dumb me only thought of updating the bios after 3 hours of troubleshooting. Cheers! Works like a charm now!

[@mikesunboxing]

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[@anime-connoisseur1877]

Thank you for this video. I'm currently assembling my new PC to support the 5000 series CPUs. I have never used the Q flash option and have heard conflicting information that confused me if I even needed to have RAM, a CPU,.... Etx...to flash and update my bios to be compatible with my new CPU. Thank you very much it was informative and short. Keep up the great work

[@mikesunboxing]

You are welcome! And thanks for watching

[@JeffBorger]

Did you have all those connected when flashing your bios? I'm currently working through this too...

[@OneHappyGuy182]

@@JeffBorger No do not have anything except your power supply connected to your motherboard and the usb device you are using that has the bios on it

[@jordanlee7624]

Hey big important note: USB 3.x flash drives won't work (even if they're Type-A), and 32GB USB flash drives won't work (even if they're USB 2.0). Can't confirm about 16GB, but I needed to use a USB 2.0 8GB stick to get QFlash to work. Using the 32GB USB 2.0 or 3.0 sticks just flat out didn't work and the motherboard gave no indication about the fault (QFlash LED didn't show, fans didn't spin on anything, actually thought the mobo was DOA!) TL;DR: Use the worst USB flash drive you can find (eg. 8GB USB 2.0) or QFlash might silently fail with no indicator! Your motherboard might not be DOA - it might just be your USB is incompatible!

[@anime-connoisseur1877]

@@jordanlee7624 I just Q flashed a Aorus Elite motherboard with a random 32GB 3.0 USB and confirmed it was successful by placing a ryzen 3200G into the board and was able to boot.

[@elektronikdevrem]

I'am from Turkey. As an amateur computer user, I easily updated the bios with this video. Thank you very much for this video.

[@mikesunboxing]

You're welcome! Love to Turkey :-)

[@123mandown]

OMFG!! All I need was ONE PERSON to say HOLD THE Q-flash button. SOB NOW IT WORKS!

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad to help

[@SuspiciousAra]

Thank you for the solid info and thank you NOT Gigabyte for completely missing this info on support page of the motherboard page.

[@wickeddoc]

Thanks dude, you're a lifesaver. I can confirm that flashing does work with CPU, GPU and RAM installed as well. At least for me it did, using AORUS X570 ULTRA with 5900X

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help and that good to know :-)

[@bobothewood9628]

Thank you for this so much. I have the same MB and CPU and its all put together and I'm watching this and like nooooooooo.

[@williamroberts3095]

Good to hear. I bricked my b550 aorus today by enabling fTPM. Going to try this as a last resort.

[@mhkrebs]

+1. Flashing worked for me without removing the CPU or RAM (I didn't have a GPU card). The CPU was not yet supported (hence the need for flashing), so maybe that helped?

[@123coven6]

Going to try it becuase I accidentally disabled secure boot and now my monitor won’t display anything

[@MrRevelance]

Got the same problem with Gigabyte B550M S2H - Ryzen 5 5600x. After 6 hours of mindblowing trys / tests etc found this treasure. Thanks a million Mike, you got a kiss on your baldy :) thanks a lot

[@mikesunboxing]

Eray Demir Thanks for the feedback! Please consider sharing the video and information on your social media, it really helps to get the message out there.

[@johntniman]

Really helpful video, thank you so much. Just got a new 5600x the board wouldn't POST. This was the clearest explanation for flashing the BIOS on a new build I found anywhere.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad to help John, hopefully you have got everything setup and working by the time you read this

[@forgottensoles3673]

I’m in the same spot, new CPU (5600x) and new mobo (A520 Elite) and no post. I’m about to Q Flash it, hope it works!

[@bkulber1]

Great video, this is just what I needed. I did NOT remove my RAM or CPU however (I had been doing a ton of troublehooting and at this point was like, hell no, I'm too lazy), this was a BRAND NEW build and I'm sure the CPU/RAM were much newer than the Motherboard. I did not have the GPU installed yet and was running HDMI off of the motherboard. My PC did NOT reboot however and came to a screen "UEFI Interactive Shell v2.2" and at the end, it said to press ESC in 1 second to skip "startup.nsh". I waited at least 20 minutes to make sure it was done and hit ESC. Nothing happened so I rebooted (make sure to remove the thumb drive from the BIOS slot) and it worked after that!! This was my first time using Q Flash! What a great feature!! Some background for other that might be having the same issue as me...At first bootup I was taken to the screen to press DEL for setup, but DEL/END/F12 would never get me into those screens not matter what. Sometimes it would say that it was entering setup, but it would just hang forever. Again, this was on a brand new build with all brand new parts.

[@itsthefreemind]

Perfect, thank you so much! Worked with Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master. Renamed the file to GIGABYTE.bin and removed all other ones from the flash drive. I did remove the graphics card, RAM, SATA drives but kept CPU and NVMe drive installed. After the flashing of the BIOS LED the power supply fan did not stopped spinning. In the end, I switched off the power supply. On first boot the POST was followed by an 3-5 minutes BIOS installation process. Afterwards, I was able to access the BIOS and boot the system. 👍👍

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itsthefreemind Thanks for the feedback! Please consider sharing the video and information on your social media, it really helps to get the message out there.

[@killerbye1985]

I had been battling with a new Gigabyte B650M Gaming X AX. Couldn't get it to boot off a USB to install Windows, couldn't update the BIOS through the GUI. Your guide helped me and I thank you for it.

[@mikesunboxing]

glad to help Mike

[@justdontpanic7314]

Thanks big time for this video, subbed for this. Just had to flash my X570 Aorus Elite bc it wasn't posting with a Ryzen 5 5600X. First time flashing BIOS and this was very easy thanks to you. I had already assembled the entire PC and flashed with all components in, it worked in under 5 minutes. Cheers!

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help, and welcome to the Channel :-)

[@mandargite]

Do we need to re-install windows and other software after bios flushing ?

[@ryand2096]

Late to the party but I want to thank you. I'm a mechanical engineer and been building computers and updating BIOS for at least a decade. Thanks for the video. I normally use ASUS ROG motherboards with a debug display, so I knew their BIOs update procedure. I somehow found the old Q-flash instructions from Gigabyte. That mentions nothing about renaming files. However, when it talks about using a floppy disk I decided to check youtube. B. Updating the BIOS When updating the BIOS, choose the location where the BIOS file is saved. The follow procedure assumes that you save the BIOS file to a floppy disk. Step 1: 1. Insert the floppy disk containing the BIOS file into the floppy disk drive. In the main menu of Q-Flash, use the up or down arrow key to select Update BIOS from Drive and press .

[@mikesunboxing]

thanks for watching and glad it helped you

[@Majklish]

This really helped me, thank you. I did this on a complete build, with cpu, ram, ssd and graphics card installed on B550 Aourus pro.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped

[@אילייבוקובזה-מ7פ]

and it workd with the ssd ram and the cpu ?

[@stefangerrard5662]

@@אילייבוקובזה-מ7פ yes it should. Don’t really know why it matters, I’ve done it 3 times now with a full PC and nothing seems to be different

[@corvusprojects]

HELP! I've got a B550 Aorus Pro ITX and did exactly the same thing, but after the LED light blinks fast and slow for a few minutes, the light just turns off - but my CPU fan is still going! The system is not turning off. What do I do??

[@Milkymanny]

@@corvusprojects Same Here. You solved it?

[@iphantum5493]

Just flashed my B550 Aorus Elite after carefully following the steps in this video. Everything went perfectly fine so i must give you a big thanks ✊🏼

[@mikesunboxing]

Good to hear! enjoy your PC

[@Jingoea]

Thanks. I was lucky enough to get a 5950x yesterday. I needed these instructions how to flash the bios. Cheers!

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help!

[@MorkaiAU]

Sitting here about to build a B550 system (5800x, 16GB 3600 C16 DDR4, 2TB NVME SSD etc) and I was kinda nervous about doing a headless BIOS flash (I'm usually kinda nervous when I can see what's going on, this is much worse!) and yet you made it look so simple! Happy to sub to the channel based on clear and informative advice. Thanks!

[@mikesunboxing]

thanks for the sub

[@TG09]

Thanks dude, saved me going nuts why I wasnt getting any display. Got a 5600x and I thought my MBoard would of worked out of the box

[@mikesunboxing]

TG09 Thanks for the feedback! Please consider sharing the video and information on your social media, it really helps to get the message out there.

[@jasonliu1911]

The same thing is happening to be rn. I hope it will all work out 🤞

[@moshobmx]

@@jasonliu1911 So did it worked? Im getting a 5600x and gigabyte gaming x v2 motherbaord

[@jasonliu1911]

@@moshobmx yes I had to take out everything besides the 24 and 8 pin

[@jasonliu1911]

@@moshobmx if u need any help in doing it just ask me

[@Sdizzle7]

Dude, You are the man!!!! Saved my ass on the Ryzen 5950x on my new x570 board. I was panicking after spending 3 grand on the cpu and a 3090

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad to help

[@jonhughes4079]

THANK YOU! with everyone adding 5000 support to b550 and x570 mobos you'd think there would be more than one good guide

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad you think so!

[@defenderoftheway]

Great video. Helped an experienced tech that has not used Q Flash to build a device. Thank you again for saving me time.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped

[@rudesfatstuntdouble7599]

Thanks for this video dude. Currently doing first build in 15+ years and this helped immensely (getting a B550 Aorus Pro V2 playing nice with a Ryzen 5600x). Much better job explaining this than the info Gigabyte provided.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help!

[@hankzhou279]

I rarely comment but I have to say THANK YOU!!! My first assembled PC was stuck on The American Megatrends screen and I knew it was the motherboard not had the updated CPU support but I just didn't find any good tutorial of updating it. And your video is a life saver! Thank you!

[@mikesunboxing]

You are welcome!

[@sverla42]

This video needs waaay more thumbs up! Thanks a lot! 👍

[@mikesunboxing]

So nice of you - glad it helped :-)

[@justinlynam18]

Ah, finally found a video on this. Gathering components for my first rig and I knew I had to do this with my board but wasn't sure the exact process. Last thing I want to do is build it and realize I have to tear everything off of the board to do this, lol. Thanks for sharing!

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad to help and hope you enjoy your build

[@graemeh6345]

Thanks Mike. Nice and clear. Better info than the Gigabyte site! Learned something new and needed this!! Take care and keep safe.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it was helpful!

[@SidtheSloth_31]

Thank you so much for this! I have just bought the x570 Aorus master and the pc store said they'd charge me to "update my motherboard before I can use my Ryzen 5 Cpu on it". Knowing that it is as easy as that really does save me some coin!

[@mikesunboxing]

Good to hear you made a saving

[@robertgreen2518]

How did it go? Did you use USB 3.0 or USB 2.0 and what size? I just bought the same board and waiting for CPU to arrive.

[@faze13245]

This video is absolutely liquid gold, incredibly helpful.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nickcorr7244]

G’day Mike. Just picked up the Ryzen 5 5600X in the Gigabyte X570 and it all seemed like dead on arrival. I did hear the Bios flash might be required. Well I watched you YT clip and bang... Viaga for the PC, suddenly the new build jumped to life. I was looking for a how to video and you vid really was perfect. Thanks Mate. Cheers

[@mikesunboxing]

Nick Corr 😂 Thanks for the feedback! Please consider sharing the video and information on your social media, it really helps to get the message out there.

[@andersrasmussen3942]

@Mike thanks for this excellent guide - made it super easy for me to flash my Gigabyte motherboard. My only bump on the road was that my initial 'fast format' of the USB drive somehow did not work, so the motherboard could not recognize the bios file. I just did a full format of the disk again and repeated the process. Then all worked like a charm. Now I just need a Ryzen 5000 processor to plug into the motherboard :D

[@mikesunboxing]

Great to hear!

[@noahengstrom]

thanks for the help. Just got a gigabyte mobo that didn't support my 5600x. This was a real help. I wish gigabyte had more documentation on the flash process.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help!

[@Robot_Kitten]

Hi Mike, thank you so much for this great Video! I struggled for hours with the gigabyte guide for q flash with your clear instructions i got my mainboard ready for the new CPU!

[@mikesunboxing]

Great to hear!

[@iiTudy]

I recently bought the Ryzen 5800X and put it in an Aorus X570 Pro, and it didn't post at all. I tried everything but eventually concluded that the mobo needed to be updated. Since it wouldn't even post, it was impossible to access the bios - what he suggests in the video WORKS! Make sure to rename the bios update file like he mentions and do every step. If your problem is similar to mine, it's going to work. Make sure you don't have the processor, ram, gpu or SSDs connected. Just barebone stuff and it'll work. Happy Ryzen user now.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it's all sorted for you and if anyone is feeling nervous about doing this feel free to join our Discord chat and we can go over it in more detail discord.gg/gaeeDPw

[@t.williams5018]

Thanks for this how-to! I was able to successfully recover from a bad BIOS flash using this method. A few quick corrections though -- This DOES work even if RAM, CPU, and Memory are installed so long as the computer is in an S5 state (PSU on, mobo off) when the Q-Flash button is pushed. Also, the file can be named "GIGABYTE.BIN" or "GIGABYTE.bin".

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped :-)

[@retrograpejuice]

Thank you for providing two important clarifications that were ambiguous or straight up wrong in the video.

[@itsmegareth9663]

when i rename my file GIGABYTE.bin after exiting and entering the flash drive the autoexec file is gone, is this normal?

[@t.williams5018]

@@itsmegareth9663 Renaming a file should not ever cause any other file to disappear.

[@itsmegareth9663]

@@t.williams5018 its alright, ive sorted it now. Absolutel ball ache. Couldn't get the qflash to work until ide built the pc, ive literally just finished building it. Thanks for the reply. I googled my problem of qflash not working with a stripped motherboard and apprently its common with gigabyte boards. All is good now.

[@joe9677]

i did what i said i never would and flashed my Z490 Aorus from windows using the gigabyte utility and walked away only to return to a PC no longer booting up just would power up and never got a screen to get into bios ,,, i looked in the manual no real info there other than check mfgr site ,, but i used your method with renaming bios file and flash drive etc. except i didn't remove my CPU, Ram NVMe m.2 (X2) or graphics or anything all i did was plug into the specified port and pressed the Bios button let it flash away and now I'm back up and running with the latest so maybe Z490 is different steps but watching your video was a huge help

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped and that you're back up and running again :-)

[@DafuqOfficial]

Hello! I have a question, I do everything you said - after 6 minutes my PC shut down as expected. But then, when I turn it on again nothing really changed. The red CPU light is still on. Do you have any solutions maybe?

[@mikesunboxing]

This is maybe easier to fix or at least advise if we can ask more questions and get direct answers, so feel free to join our Discord chat and we can go over it in more detail discord.gg/gaeeDPw

[@mikesunboxing]

@@WTP_DAVE Just tried finding your conversation on there, but cannot see your username?

[@WTP_DAVE]

@@mikesunboxing thank you for you help

[@mikesunboxing]

This is maybe easier to fix or at least advise if we can ask more questions and get direct answers, so feel free to join our Discord chat and we can go over it in more detail discord.gg/gaeeDPw

[@zino071]

Use the last known working bios version that worked for your mb and use that one.

[@triffid2024]

Thank you, followed this tutorial and the bios updated with no issues

[@mikesunboxing]

Great to hear!

[@paulwilson1555]

Perfect, ideal, I am now feeling suitably educated to perform the task, Thank you.

[@mikesunboxing]

Thanks for watching

[@jackgrinstead1085]

Just bought an X570 Aorus motherboard and plan to try and get a hold of a 5000 series cpu. I have never done a bios flash before so I wasn't entirely certain how it would go. After watching I feel totally confident, cheers Mike!

[@mikesunboxing]

glad to help

[@NHDGamer]

Echoing the thanks from everybody else!! Thank you for the perfect guide

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped!

[@LastMumzy]

Whew thanks for the help. I bought a Gigabyte A520i and tried to put a Ryzen 5600x in it but it didn't work. Found a new BIOS had been developed less than two months ago that added Ryzen 5xxx support. Followed these directions and everything is working perfectly now. Every time I do stuff like this I feel like I am disarming a bomb. Too much stress! Thanks for making it easy.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped :-)

[@whitepawrolls]

For those that have a power supply where the fan doesn't always spin you could just plug a fan or rgb device into the board. Note also (for gigabyte boards at least) the q-flash+ button can now be near the front header pins as is the case with my B550.

[@regardzz]

what is the cpu connector for if there is no cpu?

[@whitepawrolls]

@@regardzz Some boards will not power on if its not plugged in. Better to be safe than sorry.

[@FlippieCA]

Bless your soul for providing what Gigabyte would not !

[@mikesunboxing]

I hear that a lot , thanks for watching

[@DonLopeChannel]

Thanks! Today i will get my 5600x and was looking just for this.

[@mikesunboxing]

Enjoy!

[@liamdawber4211]

commented a month ago about my pc, just wanted to say I came back to this video with a new MOBO and you have saved me with this one, great video and thank you!

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help!

[@Tarn7777777]

Thank you for this awesome video! After I extract the 4 files to my USB, if I go to another folder and then back to my USB, the "Autoexec.bat" file has disappeard? Is this normal or will it cause problems flashing the board?

[@mikesunboxing]

That will be fine it only needs the bios file really

[@failingcargo]

I found this video extraordinarily helpful and thorough, thank you and your team for the time and hard work.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tomaszkazmierski7101]

Mike, God bless you! Iwas frightened if i had done smoething wrong with quick flash, but your way todescribe everything brought me hope back.

[@InnateOwl]

Thanks a million! Took all worries ive been having about doing this away

[@mikesunboxing]

InnateOwl Thanks for the feedback! Please consider sharing the video and information on your social media, it really helps to get the message out there.

[@InnateOwl]

@@mikesunboxing will do! Also recommending your channel to people for well explained videos!

[@Guitar-Geek]

Q-FLASHed mine, everything went smoothy, just need to wait a bit more than in this video. Thanks for your help!

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped!

[@matthewday7565]

If the PSU is a zero fan, hooking up a molex powered fan would give an indication of the PSU powering on and off

[@mikesunboxing]

excellent suggestion!

[@dangioga321]

Thanks for the help. x570 Aorus Pro + 5900X CPU. Instructions on Gigabyte's website are scarce and not useful. It did work without removing CPU or RAM for me. Happy with the results. Thanks once again.

[@mikesunboxing]

Dan Gioga Thanks for the feedback! Please consider sharing the video and information on your social media, it really helps to get the message out there.

[@cjcoyle3693]

dude, thank you so much. Exactly what i needed for my 5950x that wouldn’t boot with my b550 aorus master

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help

[@simontemplar2823]

Tell you what, me old China, you just saved me a lot of trouble and you're a star :) I was in a real bind here with a B550 which wouldn't post and your tutorial got me through the flashing procedure like a breeze.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help i am bit of a saint myself 🤣

[@tycobb6064]

hello Mike, watching from the Philippines!

[@mikesunboxing]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@daves1489]

I spent 3 hours today and yesterday, trying to figure out why qflash plus didn't work for me. Stupid-me thought I had copy the contents of the uncompressed file into a new folder called 'gigabyte.bin'; no wonder it didn't work, and thanks to you, not only was I utterly shocked, but it worked. Thank you!

[@mikesunboxing]

thanks Dave and glad you got it done. All working now?

[@daves1489]

@@mikesunboxing Yes, all is working now. Thank you. Now I just need a 30 series GPU.

[@mikesunboxing]

@@daves1489 Don't we all! Lol

[@ubergenius48]

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for.

[@mikesunboxing]

You're welcome!

[@jdiala]

Thanks for the straightforward video. This is much better than reading the documentation.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it was helpful!

[@hsavsmash]

Funny story: I couldn't get my Gigabyte B550 Vision D to Q Flash and I thought I followed the instructions on here to the T... but it didn't work until I figured out what I did wrong. I renamed the file to GIGABITE.bin instead of GIGABYTE.bin Don't be stupid like me, lol

[@mikesunboxing]

Easy mistake to make, thanks for pointing this out in case anyone else does the same :-)

[@tdboots]

so it needs to be .bin. or .bin ?

[@hsavsmash]

@@tdboots sorry the period after the bin was a period to end the sentence, not the file name. That was confusing. My point is that Gigabyte is spelled with a "y" and not an "i"

[@מנשהפלגפיזיותרפיסט]

Thanks so much for that video. You saved me lots of time. Just build a Gaming PC and it did not post. I followed your instructions and Flashed the newest BIOS , and all is working fine. Its a GIGABYTE Z690 GAMING X DRAM and CPU were blinking . Flashing solved it !!!

[@mikesunboxing]

glad to hear about a happy ending

[@Turtle.69]

Thank you so much for making this. Invaluable information laid out in an extremely comprehensive manner and very easy to follow along. Wonderful that you showed everything from start to finish.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it was helpful!

[@hipparchos]

I just finished building a pc and it won't boot. I had no idea if it was something I messed up or if a component was faulty. Turns out it was a bios issue after all. Thanks for yourur clear and to the point video

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help

[@larsmuldjord9907]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I just got my Ryzen 5900x and I just couldn't get a bios posting. And Gigabytes own description on how to use that qflash button is less than informative. This very simple to-the-point howto you made got me through it, and I now have a working machine.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help!

[@troncoinc]

Which bios update did u download?

[@JeffBorger]

Did you have everyone disconnected but the bare essentials when flashing?

[@larsmuldjord9907]

@@JeffBorger Everything disconnected. It wouldn't work if a CPU was installed.

[@larsmuldjord9907]

@@troncoinc The latest for my board.

[@Zardnokalicious]

Nothing like building a couple of gaming systems for a friends kids with the new 5800X CPU and have the Gigabye X570 Aurus WiFi do nothing. Thanks a TON for this video. Time to disassemble both machines to flash the latest bios so it will recognize the newest CPUs. Definitely a helpful video and I appreciate the time you put into making it.

[@mikesunboxing]

Couldn't agree more! And thanks for watching :-)

[@juanvalencia9378]

I wish gigabyte would actually take the damn time to note you have to disassemble the system. Doesn't seem like too much to ask for...

[@mikesunboxing]

yeah it isn't very clear from the manual

[@MrStoffzor]

"Q-Flash Plus allows you to update the BIOS when your system is off (S5 shutdown state). Save the latest BIOS on a USB thumb drive and plug it into the Q-Flash Plus port, and then you can now flash the BIOS automatically by simply pressing the Q-Flash Plus button. The QFLED will flash when the BIOS matching and flashing activities start and will stop flashing when the main BIOS flashing is complete." Nothing works by simply pressing a button...

[@xXavorx]

​@@MrStoffzor Hey, my computer was working perfectly fine for 5 months straight and all of a sudden I get no signal on my monitor. Would going through the flashing Bios procedure delete my current files on my computer?

[@johno9163]

And when I am looking for help for a particular question, Mike comes though again. Thanks for the very well done video, it is a big help as always.

[@mikesunboxing]

thanks John, glad we could help

[@jasonliu1911]

Dude I have to take off my cpu, gpu, and ram. That sucks

[@mikesunboxing]

if you have a 5000 series cpu you shouldn't have it installed yet really as the board doesn't support it, if you have a 3000 series you don't need to update the bios

[@99Ctube]

For me it worked with that stuff installed. I got into the Bios with Version F2 installed. I flashed from there and after that the CPU (5800x) was correctly displayed.

[@colinanderson3492]

@@99Ctube so it will work with 5800x installed? I was worried I would have to remove it and the cooler too, that would have taken forever

[@99Ctube]

@@colinanderson3492 You can try it. Maybe it depends on the motherboard. I had everything installed, CPU, Ram, CPU Cooler (important!!!) and the GPU. If you get into the Bios you can flash it from there. If you don't get into it you have to use the Flash Button on the mobo, but in this case nothing shall be installed.

[@MrNorman11]

I had to remove/clear my CMOS before the system would boot. This video was very helpful.

[@mikesunboxing]

glad it was useful

[@ΔημητρηςΠρωτουλης]

Thanks mate, had tried everything and was about to rma my mobo before doing what you show in your video. Worked like a charm and got my system up and running!

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad we could help - enjoy!

[@CorpseExplosion]

Super helpful thank you. I can't believe I just assembled pretty much the whole system ready to drop a 5000 series CPU into it before checking how the QFLASH process works! TIme to get unplugging...

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help!

[@greateminemfan]

Thx Mike, you helped me alot. After a whole night it wasnt working bc i had doubt ob my self, i watched this video next day. And after 15 mins it was fixed. Next time i will take a look about needed bios system first. Nice Video and keep making them. Greetings from Switzerland!

[@mikesunboxing]

Great to hear! Love to Switzerland :-)

[@itsamesantiago4150]

Thanks Mike! I have an X570 Gigabyte Aorus pro wifi. In my case I have q flash plus button on the motherboard and a light beside it. I had to remove M2, memories and GPU. Just plugged in the usb with latest Bios, started pc it recognized my old flash drive and it started the process(flashing light). It was over when light went off. Plugged everything back and then I had video! Updating bios don’t power off message. I am glad I found your video dude! Keep the good work! Have a nice weekend!

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help and hope you have a good one too

[@johna2524]

Thanks bro! Best instructions ever! Just a FYI, I removed the Video card, CPU, Ram and left all the other header cables attached. No other peripherals attached yet. I left the M.2 installed without an issue. Brought my new non-functioning MB to life to get in the BIOS to finish my build! After the flash with the above re-installed and restart, the monitor came on and showed the progress of the BIOS update which took about five minutes to complete. CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900x (Waited 3 months for the chip $549.00 US and waited in line outside 40 minutes at Microcenter freezing) Mainboard: GIGABYTE X570 AORUS MASTER Rev 1.2 RAM: 2x 8 GB G.Skill Ripjaw DDR4-3600 GPU: EVGA NVIDIA e-GeForce 7600 GT 256MB DDR3 (Just for testing, old card) Storage: Sabrent Rocket NVME 1 TB M.2

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped and you're up and running :-)

[@baitboy3191]

Dude this video was super helpful! followed the instructions on the manual and didn't work until I had to rename the file, and then worked like a charm! Thanks again for the great information.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped!

[@MixedVictor]

Huge thanks brother, i thought i lost my motherboard because of ROM image not loaded problem, but using q flash plush and flashing the proper bios fixed it. 🙏

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help

[@John-wx6wj]

Great video, super clear. Gigabyte should use your video on their support site.

[@mikesunboxing]

Thanks for that! Merry Christmas :-)

[@adrianTNT]

2 more tips, because I spent around 12 hours debuging this: 1) when downloading bios, make sure you clicked the right motherboard revision version on site ("rev 1.x" / "rev 2.x"), QFlash didn't start if the bios was for the wrong revision version. 2) less common: on some cards, having PCIeX16 bifurcation set to auto (default) can prevent booting/signal on some cards, booting with another GPU and setting bifurcation to any other option worked (2x8, 4x4, etc).

[@grizzlychawify]

Thank you for the very easy and straightforward process building a new pc that needed flashed prior to building since I didn't have a old processor to use. Thanks

[@mikesunboxing]

You're welcome!

[@homokir]

Thank you, Mike. Now i understand what i need to do (Gigabyte's site does not tell that you need only use white usb port). And another thanks for clear english speech!

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help! Especially where gigabyte don't

[@th33b33]

Thanks Im used to building PCs this is the first time ive actually had to flash the bios for a newer chip on an older hardware i713700k aorus 690 pro ex ddr400. A good tip is to make sure to select the correct bios. I choose the newest bios but it didnt update i chose the next one down the list and it worked. Thanks for your easy guide!

[@DaniousBR]

Thank you for the tip. I have just bought a "gigabyte Z490M Gaming X" motherboard. It supports intel 11th gen cpu but only after a firmware update and my board came with an old firmware. I did what you said in the video and it worked.

[@mikesunboxing]

awesome glad to hear it

[@melisaayala3655]

I've just flashed a Gigabyte B550M H to version F14c (18.9 Mb - 06/09/2021) with all components installed. It worked fine. My Ryzen 7 5700G is now running. I was desperate due to no beep, no post. The process was similar but the cpu fan never stoped. I waited 20 minutes and turned off the PSU. In the next boot all worked ok.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad you got it flashed OK :-)

[@kaisersolo76]

I Do love it when I need a video on something, search for it and mike pops up Magic!

[@mikesunboxing]

haha yeah we have a really big back catalogue of videos now

[@alfredmanner6881]

Thanks for this video, just received my B550I Aorus pro ax itx motherboard that I got from eBay, seller says they messed up the bios with a bad flash. To my surprise the fast flashing followed by the slow flashing of the little led next to the qflash button worked and recovered the bios, saved me from having to deploy my mini bios flasher.

[@alfredmanner6881]

So even works to recover from a bad flash

[@mikesunboxing]

No problem 👍

[@mikesunboxing]

yes i have recovered a few boards now from partial or failed flashes

[@ricaspinto]

Not sure why this topic isn't more talked about when searching for "updating motherboards for new 5000 series cpus". everyone seems to recommend AMD's cpu loan thing. Much faster with a Q-flash supporting motherboard, and much simpler too! Great video!

[@mikesunboxing]

Good point and thanks for watching

[@gustavopaz7236]

Thanks for this vid!!! PC wasn’t starting until I ran these steps. Thanks a bunch!! 😅

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help!

[@b6s4shelter]

just bought a ITX Gigabyte A520i AC and will do this for my 5600G Build! Thanks Mike!

[@mikesunboxing]

that should be good

[@b6s4shelter]

@@mikesunboxing such the right vid. F15C bios went in like butter and then uses your In Win Chopin Vid to build my 5600G and 2X8GB 4000MTs CL18 memory and she flies! Replaced my near 10 yr old NUC.

[@mikesunboxing]

@@b6s4shelter Nice! Good to hear :-)

[@bladevr4647]

Thanks for the video. After a bit the light went off but the fans are still moving do I just wait?

[@mikesunboxing]

it should restart the fans might turn back on, it sounds like it has done the job

[@ZENPro]

Same, do I restart the PC or keep waiting?