G481 Bios and Drivers

Bannon05

I purchased the G481 from Microcenter recently and the PC can with a Gigabyte Aorus Elite X Ice motherboard. Can I download updated drivers and the bios for my PC's motherboard directly from Gigabyte's website form the Aorus Elite X Ice motherboard page?

Thank you…

PowerSpec_MikeW

@Bannon05

You can with some caveats. The BIOS won't flash unless you use the Gigabyte flashback function. You have to rename the BIOS file to Gigabyte.bin, copy it onto a FAT32 flash drive. From there insert it into the marked BIOS flashback port, then turn the system off and press the flashback button. It takes 5-7 minutes. Once you do that, we won't be able to target your system with our tested qualified driver updates.

Bannon05

Mike, thank you for the quick response and detailed answer!  I’m going to forego using any Gigabyte drivers or their bios, and will install only Microcenter qualified drivers.  

Have a happy new year…

PowerSpec_MikeW

@Bannon05

We push them automatically, except for the Nvidia driver. That I would keep up to date manually or with the GeForce Experience. If there's a new BIOS out for the board that you're interested in due to feature or microcode updates, post on here and we can qualify it as time allows.

Bannon05

Great, thank you Mike for the detailed answer.