Flashing Bios Using an Asus Crosshair V or Five Formula Board

As we begin this tutorial, I want to emphasize that flashing bios can be a useful tool for upgrading your system and unlocking new features. Historically, this was used when the X3 series CPUs were out, as well as for raid fixes and other updates. Today, we're using an Asus Crosshair V or Five Formula board, which is similar to their Maximus Series but a bit older, released in 2011.

To start, we'll be using what's called Easy Flash to update our BIOS. This utility is available on the tool tab of our Asus motherboard, and it's exactly what its name suggests - an easy way to update your BIOS. We'll navigate over to this tab, and as you can see, it clearly states that it's used to update BIOS. We know exactly what we're doing here in plain English.

To begin the process, we need to download the BIOS update to a flash drive. Some modern boards can update their firmware over the air or via wireless/wired functionality, but this one only does it from a flash drive. So, we'll need to download the update from Asus's website to our flash device and plug it in before booting up. Once we've done that, we can select the device and the correct ROM file for our update.

It's also worth noting that abrupt power loss can result in bricking your board - a situation where the board becomes basically useless, less than a brick, but still not very useful at all. Some modern boards do have dual BIOS, meaning you can fail once and switch to your second BIOS chip, allowing you to continue using your system.

Now, let's select the newest update, which is 1703 up here - we can see our current version is 1605. When we hit enter, it will start updating, and if we don't hit shift instead of enter, we'll get a progress bar once it starts processing. Once this is done, it'll simply let us know that we need to reboot and our BIOS has been updated.

Finally, before we wrap up this tutorial, I want to mention that there are other boards that allow you to update their firmware wirelessly or through the hard drive - MSI being a bit more interesting in this regard. We'll also be looking at ASRock in the next few days, so check our YouTube channel for that video as well.

That's it for today's tutorial on flashing bios using an Asus Crosshair V or Five Formula board. If you have any questions or need further clarification, feel free to ask - thanks for watching and we'll see you all in the next video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone this is Steve from Gamers nexus.net and today we are flashing bios using an Asus Crosshair V or five formula board uh this is similar to the their Maximus Series this one's a bit older it's 2011 but same overall function we're using what is called easy flash to update BIOS and updating bios or flashing firmware as it is also called is useful if you want to upgrade your bios to unlock new features so historically this was used when the X3 series CPUs were out Asus and other companies added uh core unlocking with a bios update so you can do that you can also up update for raid fixes and things along those lines to do this with the Asus easy uh 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 uh 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 uh some of the modern boards can update over the air or via Wireless or wired functionality this one only does it from a flash drive so you download the update from asus's website to your flash device uh plug it in boot to this and then you can select the device and the correct ROM file for your update one other item to note is that abrupt power loss can result in uh in bricking your board as we call 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 uh 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 okay hit enter and it's going to sit there and update if I hit enter instead of shift it will update uh and you'll get a a progress bar once it starts so now we can see it as processing once this is done it'll pretty simply just uh let you know that you need to reboot and your bios is updated check back to the YouTube channel for a similar video on MSI which is a bit more interesting because you can do this from uh from Wireless functionality like I mentioned and I believe one of them allows you to do it through the hard drive uh 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 peacehey everyone this is Steve from Gamers nexus.net and today we are flashing bios using an Asus Crosshair V or five formula board uh this is similar to the their Maximus Series this one's a bit older it's 2011 but same overall function we're using what is called easy flash to update BIOS and updating bios or flashing firmware as it is also called is useful if you want to upgrade your bios to unlock new features so historically this was used when the X3 series CPUs were out Asus and other companies added uh core unlocking with a bios update so you can do that you can also up update for raid fixes and things along those lines to do this with the Asus easy uh 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 uh 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 uh some of the modern boards can update over the air or via Wireless or wired functionality this one only does it from a flash drive so you download the update from asus's website to your flash device uh plug it in boot to this and then you can select the device and the correct ROM file for your update one other item to note is that abrupt power loss can result in uh in bricking your board as we call 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 uh 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 okay hit enter and it's going to sit there and update if I hit enter instead of shift it will update uh and you'll get a a progress bar once it starts so now we can see it as processing once this is done it'll pretty simply just uh let you know that you need to reboot and your bios is updated check back to the YouTube channel for a similar video on MSI which is a bit more interesting because you can do this from uh from Wireless functionality like I mentioned and I believe one of them allows you to do it through the hard drive uh 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\n"