Lucky for me, someone in China was selling one for a somewhat reasonable price with a great shipping price of 8$(!!) so without further ado, I hit the “Buy It Now!” button. After looking all over for a motherboard that could support it and the memory I had (DDR3…), I turned to eBay to find the exact same motherboard. In my case, the Intel Core i7 3930K was no longer a cutting edge CPU like when I bought it. If you have ever had to replace an old motherboard, you know how troublesome if can be to find a motherboard that will support a specific CPU. At any rate, the computer worked with 8GB but I needed the extra memory. It’s the only way I can thing that caused those pins to bend but I’m not 100% sure. To be honest, when I took the CPU out, I forgot how an LGA 2011 socket worked and the CPU almost fell over (the motherboard is sideways in the computer, it’s a tower) and I had to push it back to prevent from falling. I tried as I might to bring them back to alignment but with no luck. I took things apart one last time and it looked like the socket on the motherboard had pins that were slightly out of alignment. Well, now, I had managed to make a bad thing even worst… I had a grand total of 8GB or RAM. Put everything back together another time and booted up… So, I took everything apart again, cleaned everything again (there’s no way to remove the CPU without first removing the CPU cooler) and started again. I went into the BIOS and the system was seeing all the DIMMs but was not reporting the total amount correctly. After I put everything back in place, I booted the PC and to my surprise, instead of the expected 32GB of RAM, I was down to 16GB. I then proceeded to reassemble everything. I cleaned everything and applied a fresh thermal paste. In all appearances, everything went fine. On a Saturday morning, I decided to remove the CPU cooler and the CPU to remove the old thermal paste and clean both the cooling pad and CPU. AT the time, I didn’t really have the time so I installed it anyway and figured I would take care of fixing this later. When I installed it, I had a hard time putting it properly in the machine and doing so, I damaged the thermal pad (or paste?) that was pre-applied to the copper pad. It a little less fancy but it was going to be fine. I didn’t need all the fancy feature of the original system so I ended up getting a Corsair H60. I would be reminded of this fact at boot time so I decide to fix it.Īfter a bit of shopping, I found a suitable replacement for the Corsair H80 I had. The original liquid cooling died because the fans were no longer being told by the unit to turn on so the CPU was running too hot. My problems started about a month ago when I had to replace the liquid cooling for my ASUS Sabertooth X79/Intel Core i7 3930K machine. Before I go into the process, let me tell you how I got there… It’s long so feel free to skip over it – just search for “Process -” to get there. Instead press the BIOS Flashback button, for around 3 seconds until the LED starts blinking.I’m writing this post so that no one has a hard time like I did to update an ASUS Sabertooth X79 motherboard to the latest BIOS. You need to shutdown the computer, and place the USB flash drive into the USB FlashBack port, which is in the back of the computer.ĭo NOT turn ON the computer with the normal power button. This renamed the .CAP file to SX570EG.CAP Now to make the BIOS update ready I just had to double click on BIOSRenamer.exe: BIOSRenamer.exe - the executable that we need to call to rename the BIOS update ready for our motherboard to ingest.ROG-STRIX-X70-E-GAMING-ASUS-3801.CAP - the bios update.At this stage, you should not use yet the BIOS USB Flashback port.Įxtract the zip file directly to the root of the USB flash drive:Īfter extracting, I saw two files in the root folder of my USB drive: Maybe they are looking for beta-testers? Copy the latest BIOS update to a Flash Driveĭownload the latest BIOS from the Asus website.įirst, connect a USB flash drive formatted as FAT32 to any USB ports in the computer. But then why does ASUS not show that by default. The wisest thing to do, should be to download the latest non-beta driver. I downloaded the BETA driver, released on the 8th of April 2021. Select Windows 10 64-bit from the dropdown and then from there we are able to download the latest BIOS update. Download most recent BIOS drivers from ASUS websiteįirst thing we need to do, is to head to the Asus ROG Strix 570-E motherboard’s product page in the website:įrom there it is possible to access the support page, from where we can download the latest BIOS update. But the process should be similar for most Asus motherboards with USB bios flashback. This a short guide detailing the steps on how you can flash an Asus motherboard with USB bios flashblack with or without a CPU.įor this tutorial I am flashing an Asus ROG Strix 570-E motherboard, using USB Bios flashback.
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