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now this is the first in a series of videos I've been meaning to do for a while this is going to be how to update your motherboard BIOS by Linus we're going to start with gigabyte as my first bios update video and step one go to gigabyte comm manufacturer website step two click support and downloads step three go to downloads and search for the name of your board in this case it is the Snooper sniper now I'm still using the shipping BIOS on this board so anything I choose will be an upgrade bio so there's a couple ones available we've got F 1 which is the first release no need to download and reflash that we've got F 2 which is the latest release bios and then we've got a beta bio so I'm not going to be using a beta bios so I am going to use the latest release bios I'm going to ship that somewhere ok in this case why don't I save it to just straight downloads and we'll go from there ok so it's a small file because it's not an EFI BIOS we're going to extract it to a particular folder here that's left that slash that's that BIOS then we're going to go there here we are find that and we are going to really yeah would you think that would work ok so then we're going to take that file and we are going to copy it to a USB Drive so I'm just going to grab a USB drive here my trusty Patriot rage plug that into any USB port on the back of the PC use this one there we go so that's plugged in now I'm going to take the BIOS file right here I'm going to cut that I'm going to throw it just into the root of my Patriot Drive alright I'm going to restart the computer and show you guys how to update from the f1 BIOS to the f2 BIOS I wasn't planning to do this in real time I was going to cut the video up and do steps but it's taking so little time that I might go just this way haha end so there you press n to get into cue flash I think I are you press Delete enter setup so it'll just be a moment well it looks like I can also get into cue flash from here by pressing f8 enter the few flash utility yes I would like to update files from Drive I will be using this I will be scrolling down to the BIOS file and then I will be yes I'm sure now I highly recommend having your computer plugged in to a UPS while you are doing a BIOS flash because should there be a power outage right now I'll let me just check I don't believe this board features dual BIOS so though ICO it does ok so it features dual BIOS so even if there's a power outage in theory there should be a no no long term problem my system I would just be able to reflash the BIOS but if you have a single BIOS board then that could be a real issue for you so press any key to continue and that was it so now we'll go back into Windows and I'll show you guys how to confirm I've noticed the fact that when flashing your BIOS you will usually overwrite any settings that have been entered into it such as overclocking settings turning off the splash screen when it boots all that kind of stuff and also I should note that you should always have your system set to the default settings not overclocked when you are going to flash the BIOS to avoid any kind of instability during the BIOS flashing process that would cause it to ever out now we'll use CPU Z to verify that my flash was successful you can see I am now using version f2 of the BIOS which was released on March 29th 2011 so there you go thank you for checking out my bass update guide don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews apparently guides and other computer videos you