Gigabyte GA-x58A-UD5 bios headache/Problem Hi All, I have flashed several bios' (mainly asus) using asus' easy bios updater (not flashing from DOS)...Then I'd add the OEM certificate afterwards and voila...windows is activated. Now, I downloaded a bios here from "Serg008" (X58AUD5.FB) for a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5. I used gigabytes qFlash and later on @bios followed up by a OEM cerificate (matched by that same OEM key during install). But ....it still says 29 days left. What am I doing wrong? I have if I need it a win98SE boot disk (CD Rom). Should this be done from DOS, can this be a possible reason it's not activated, and if so, can someone point me to a tutorial as to how including the flashing utility? And....Just curious, does the Install key have to match the Vendor's OEM cert? (I always using matching ones, just curious though.) Thanks in advance guys, Jeff
Can i do this on a CD Rom instead of a flash drive? I just don't know what command to run at the dos prompt to execute the flash ( is it like FlashSPI mymotherboardbios.rom) Also, in FlashSPI is the last character an upper case i? Do all three files...autoexec, FlashSPI and the bios file itself go together? in other words, if I boot to dos with a win 98se cd rom, can i then take that cd out and put another cd in with these files in? If so, what command do I run to execute the flash? And also, why doesnt a qflash or @bios not work? Again, thnks, jeff
@ TechGuy50, If you extract ALL the Files from that rar file onto a Bootable USB Drive and then Boot to that USB Drive it will auto Flash the BIOS. That's what an autoexec.bat does, it automatically runs the executables in the Batch file. That would be Basic DOS 101. You can use a Bootable CD but you would need to use this command (the one that is in the autoexec.bat file, BTW): flashspi X58AUD5.FB Why qFlash and @Bios don't properly Update the BIOS, is something you need to ask Gigabyte.
NOJUAN, I ran it, shows slic 2.1 validated but shows no OEM Certificate, how can that be, dit it so many times with an OEM cert app that lets you choose a letter for a host of OEMs and hit enter...followed by acknowledgement of installation thnx Jeff
Thnaks NoJUAN999 You are so right NOJUAN999 I did this now : slmgr -ilc C:\NAME.xrm-ms and it is activated. My curiosity is I have been doing it the old way since July 2009, why this time did things change?. It's the same OEM win 7 disc....Is it the new MB bios perhaps? Anyway, it worked. Thanks man, Jeff
You're Welcome. I'm Glad to see you got it working. I have No Idea what you used before but I Always Recommend Flashing from DOS (to Prevent Bricked MB's) and Manually Installing Cert and Key (to ensure Proper Installtion).
One last thing for tonight NoJuan999 In the past the certificate via the cert installer put it in the windows system 32 folder, what I just did was put it in the root of "c" Does it really matter where the certificate resides? Also when you say manually installing the key, you mean NOT during the windows 7 install routine...you mean afterwards? Thanks so much for helping, hope one day I can pay it forward jeff
You put the Cert on C: so that Windows can find it and properly install it into the proper system folder when you type in the Installation Command. I personally Install Win 7 without entering a Serial and then Flash the BIOS and manually Insert the Key so I don't get that Error about the key being Invalid like you did.
NoJuan999 If you are just reformatting and reinstalling windows 7, I gather you would do the same minus the bios flashing, right? jeff
That sucks but yes then I would send it back to the Manufacturer but Don't Tell them you modified the BIOS.