Flashing my motherboard?

mtb211

mtb211

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Hi everyone, My motherboard is in my signature. I recently bought an iphone and it doesnt seem to work with itunes and 64bit windows, Ive heard that flashing may be the solution.

I found my bios on gigabytes website but I do not have a floppy drive, is there a windows utility I can use, and will this be dangerous? Ive flashed my asus mobo bios before because it didnt support my CPU, but this seems a little too much just for a stupid Iphone, Thoughts?
 
Hey man, like we discussed in the other thread..I think there is some issue overall with iTunes and Win7 x64 being compatible!

Hopefully a Flash helps you out but I still feel that its a problem with iTunes itself!!

I struggle with it since I got my iPhone also!

keep us posted!
 
Hey, i ran into this problem myself not to long ago with my ipod touch but i never got around to fixing it because i didnt have floppy cables to fit. Gigabyte says that a bios flash will fix it but like i said i havent tried it out yet. I just wasnt that big of deal to me because it was just my ipod and not an i phone. If you ever get around to fixing let me know.
 
hey, i flashed the bios through windows and it works now :)

I did receive a bootmgr error but i have fixed that, now my iphone works :)
 
Laquer Head said:
Hey man, like we discussed in the other thread..I think there is some issue overall with iTunes and Win7 x64 being compatible!

Hopefully a Flash helps you out but I still feel that its a problem with iTunes itself!!

I struggle with it since I got my iPhone also!

keep us posted!
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itunes and windows 7 pro 64bit work fine together. im using it right now, although my itouch broke yesterday :(

but im sure thats not the problem.
 
mtb211 said:
hey, i flashed the bios through windows and it works now :)

I did receive a bootmgr error but i have fixed that, now my iphone works :)
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Just to let you know, flashing through windows is the easiest way to brick your board pretty much permanently because you arent gonna be able to RMA a board generally speaking if a flash goes bad.
 
bomberboysk said:
Just to let you know, flashing through windows is the easiest way to brick your board pretty much permanently because you arent gonna be able to RMA a board generally speaking if a flash goes bad.
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That was it. spells it out. If you do i suggest highly you read what the flash will do. If it does not help solve a problem then better leave it alone. Will it solve your problem? Critical update maybe, make it faster. think about it. risky business.
 
It's best to flash the BIOS with the BIOS's built in utility. EG my board has EZ FLASH 2. you load the .rom for the new bios on a thumbdrive, and it updates it from there.

Just' don't go removing the thumbdrive ;)
 
lovely? said:
itunes and windows 7 pro 64bit work fine together. im using it right now, although my itouch broke yesterday :(

but im sure thats not the problem.
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Yea it worked fine for me too, but then again, I have a different system to him and you :P

mtb211 said:
Rma?
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If your product is still under warranty you can open a ticket and get an RMA code. It basiaclly means the company acknowledges that you have a problem and that they are willing to test the product and if found faulty will fix/replace it. It is just saying "you won't be able to claim the warranty", but RMA rolls off the tongue, and keyboard, more easily :P
 
i have done loads of bios flashes. I prefer to use floppy disk, or iso on cd. Next I would go with bootable usb stick. I find most manufactures and techie type guys and girls will tell you to NOT flash bios in windows. EVER. sounds like you made it through one. A word of friendly advice though. since it worked once, don't count on it again. *whew* :)

glad you got your issue sorted.
cheers.
 
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