Hi there - I'm contemplating flashing my bios before I commence a new build. I apologise in advance my for noobish post.
Looking on forums / YouTube there seems to be an army of people suggesting that flashing without a CPU either didn't work or borked their MB completely... so I'm a little nervous.
The points that I keep coming across are as follows: the USB drive has to be FAT32, 2.0 and as small as possible. Another one is that the USB much be MBR... I'm not really sure what that means :s
FAT32 seems to be mandatory but the others I'm not so sure. I only have a Mac so formatting the USB to FAT32 is possible but maybe it's worth waiting until I've after built the PC to avoid completely nuking the MB by accident before installing the CPU.
Any thoughts on the above 'myths'?
EDIT - my USB 2.0 is 4gb.... is that too big?
Looking on forums / YouTube there seems to be an army of people suggesting that flashing without a CPU either didn't work or borked their MB completely... so I'm a little nervous.
The points that I keep coming across are as follows: the USB drive has to be FAT32, 2.0 and as small as possible. Another one is that the USB much be MBR... I'm not really sure what that means :s
FAT32 seems to be mandatory but the others I'm not so sure. I only have a Mac so formatting the USB to FAT32 is possible but maybe it's worth waiting until I've after built the PC to avoid completely nuking the MB by accident before installing the CPU.
Any thoughts on the above 'myths'?
EDIT - my USB 2.0 is 4gb.... is that too big?