Introduction
I recently released a new YouTube video, called “How to Flash the Gigabyte X570 AORUS Elite WiFi with Q-Flash Plus“. This video walks though and demonstrates all of the steps required to use the Q-Flash Plus feature on this motherboard.
Q-Flash Plus is a special feature that lets you flash the BIOS without having a CPU, RAM, or video card installed. The most common reason you would want/need to do this is if you had a new CPU that was not supported by the existing BIOS version on the motherboard.
This situation is happening to a number of people with new Ryzen 5000 Series processors that require a newer BIOS version than was available when the motherboard was manufactured. This feature can also be useful if a more traditional BIOS update (using the Q-Flash BIOS utility or the @BIOS Windows utility) failed.
How to Flash the Gigabyte X570 AORUS Elite WiFi with Q-Flash Plus
Here are the high-level steps that I show in the video.
Here is the video.
Final Words
I think this is a useful video right now because the documentation on the product web site and in the motherboard manual is a pretty sparse. Gigabyte also has their own YouTube video showing how to do this, but it uses a different motherboard.
I also have blog post about doing this same type of operation for several MSI motherboards.
If you have any thoughts or questions about this post, please ask me here in the comments or on Twitter. You can also follow me on Twitter, where I am @GlennAlanBerry. Thank you for reading!
Hey, does the filename have to be in all caps or lowercase? i.e. GIGABYTE.bin vs gigabyte.bin. I’ve tried 3 different flash drives and none seem to work. LED on usb lights up but not on mobo. Any help appreciated. Thanks!
I don’t think the capitalization matters for that. I have always used all lower case, and that has always worked for me.
Are you using a small capacity USB 2.0 drive? Is the file in the root of the USB drive?
So, I pushed the button on my motherboard. It started flashing then eventually it stopped flashing. The problem is the LED is still on, just not flashing. Does this mean it’s done?