Hi everybody need a helping hand here. I bought a used B360M D3H GSM of ebay and it has a vendor BIOS with version 104. Would like to flash the retail BIOS and updates.
Searched a little but got really confused…
What i tried so far:
- Q-Flash BIOS D3H and D3H GSM. USB Stick gets recognized but doesn´t show a flashable file.
- Efi-Shell boots up but fails ( i don´t remember what was written in the console). Made a Efi-Shell stick with the help of chatgpt
- Efiflash with FreeDOS fails. !!! SPI Flash Initialization Failure !!!
Maybe someone has a plan…
Edit by Fernando: Thread title specified (the MB manufacturer was missing) and customized
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I recently got the same motherboard with the same BIOS version and I am also unable to flash it as well. It currently is not recognizing the SSD to boot from so I was hoping flashing to a new version of the BIOS would fix that issue. I have tried all 11 versions listed on https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/B360M-D3H-GSM-rev-10/support#dl and each one gives and error of either being outdated or “Not able to update bios file successfully”.
Boards are using OEM “branded” bios version from another vendor and regular files from Gigayte wont be accepcted… but none of you had any “brains” to mention it.
Use the info on this thread or buy a cheap SPI IC programmer like the CH341A.
No brains at all… pay the service to a professional, he also needs to put food on the table.
I don’t know why you beeing so harsh but you gave the right answer…
Bought a CH341A programmer off amazon. Aliexpress will probably work too it is looking like this.
Used the clamp to connect the programmer to the bios. It is in the lower right side of the Motherboard and its written m_bios. Look at the chip to find the right model.
Then i used neoprogrammer to flash version F15 to the bios. No problems at all and its working like intended.
Because it has to be like this to “open” users eyes and force them ro “work” and learn on their own, taking advantage of the shared resources on the forum and not wating that other users “burn” their brain and time…for them.
Also… many of the forum users and specially experienced ones…do not apreciate self omission/users prentending to be ignorant, most of the time they simple wont help at all and ignore the user request/content.
And this is not for any user on this thread is for all users that aspire so, to same/similar issue.
But as you proven yourself…it works and you’re now happy with it…so thank you for your contribuition and sucess report, enjoy and good luck.
I also bought a CH341A programmer off amazon, used neoprogrammer and flashed to F16. Thank you @MeatWar for the direction and thanks @AvooCado for raising this thread!