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hey everyone this is Steve from gamers Nexus Donette and today we are flashing bios using an ACS crosshair V or v formula board this is similar to the Maximus series this one's a bit older it's 2011 but same overall function we're using what is called easy flash update bios and updating bios or flashing firmware as it is also called is useful if you want to upgrade your bias to unlock new features so historically this was used when the X 3 Series CPUs were out ACS and other companies added core unlocking with a BIOS update so you can do that can also up that update for raid fixes and things along those lines to do this with the asus easy easy flash utility you just navigate over to the tool tab and if you are wondering yes it is in fact calling you a tool and it even says be used to update bios so we know exactly what it is doing in plain english hit enter on the easy flash utility and that will open now one thing you need to know is before entering this you need to download the BIOS update to a flash drive some of the modern boards can update over-the-air or a via wireless or wired functionality this one only does it from a flash drive so you download the update from a Seuss's website to your flash device plug it in boot to this and then you can select the device and the correct dot rom file for your update one other item to note is that abrupt power loss can result in in breaking your board as we call it which means it is basically turned into a brick except it's less useful than a brick and some modern boards will have dual BIOS meaning that you can fail once and you normally hit a switch and switch to your second BIOS chip that way you're still good to go so from this menu we will select the newest update which is 1703 up here you can see our current version 1605 hit enter do you want to read this file ok hit enter and it's going to sit there and update if I hit enter instead of shift it will update and you'll get a progress bar once it starts so now we can see this processing once this is done it'll pretty simply just let you know that you need to reboot and your BIOS is updated check back to the YouTube channel for or a similar video on Emma sighs which is a bit more interesting because you can do this from from Wireless functionality like I mentioned I believe one of them allows you to do it through the hard drive we will also be looking at asrock in the next few days so check the channel for that and I will see you all next time peace