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I need some General Help please... I have no clue where to post this question so its going here for now.

Here is what I want to do. I have a Foxxcon Manufactured nVidia 650i Ultra motherboard re-branded to BFG 650i Ultra (foxxcon does not sell their own 650i based mobo). It is identical in every way to the EVGA 650i ultra (also manufactured by Foxxcon). BFG went out of business and stopped supporting the mobo at BIOS P03 and does not even have support files listed anywhere. However, EVGA kept supporting theirs and improving performance and features up to BIOS P05, two BIOS versions past BFG's. The only difference in these two mobos is a shiny sticker affixed to them.

Since these boards are physically identical how can I pull the bios off mine and mod the new features from the EVGA bios onto the bfg bios? I read that someone tried to do something similar by flashing the evga bios and it bricked their BFG mobo. I do not want to brick it (its a home server now) however being identical I am sure there must be a simple setting inside a bios editor that would make the evga bios compatible. I do not even know how to get at my bios since there is no file download anywhere that I can find, so I assume to even attempt this I would have to Rip it from my bios chip.

Again, two physically identical boards, so why cant I somehow use the newer evga bios on my bfg branded board, fixing a lot of issues in the process?

Any ideas?

(06-05-2013, 09:46 PM)SkOrPn Wrote: [ -> ]I need some General Help please... I have no clue where to post this question so its going here for now.

Here is what I want to do. I have a Foxxcon Manufactured nVidia 650i Ultra motherboard re-branded to BFG 650i Ultra (foxxcon does not sell their own 650i based mobo). It is identical in every way to the EVGA 650i ultra (also manufactured by Foxxcon). BFG went out of business and stopped supporting the mobo at BIOS P03 and does not even have support files listed anywhere. However, EVGA kept supporting theirs and improving performance and features up to BIOS P05, two BIOS versions past BFG's. The only difference in these two mobos is a shiny sticker affixed to them.

Since these boards are physically identical how can I pull the bios off mine and mod the new features from the EVGA bios onto the bfg bios? I read that someone tried to do something similar by flashing the evga bios and it bricked their BFG mobo. I do not want to brick it (its a home server now) however being identical I am sure there must be a simple setting inside a bios editor that would make the evga bios compatible. I do not even know how to get at my bios since there is no file download anywhere that I can find, so I assume to even attempt this I would have to Rip it from my bios chip.

Again, two physically identical boards, so why cant I somehow use the newer evga bios on my bfg branded board, fixing a lot of issues in the process?

Any ideas?

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the great tips and support ideas. I believe I found an updated BFG Bios from a Chinese website so I hope this works. I just have to figure out the instructions on flashing when there is no website to support it. Maybe NVIDIA has instructions or I should follow EVGA's instructions?

You must write the iso and boot from CD. The flash will start automatically.

(06-15-2013, 12:14 AM)Florin9doi Wrote: [ -> ]You must write the iso and boot from CD. The flash will start automatically.

Yes, I found the page here at Bios-Mods that shows how to do it by making my own usb flash drive bootable. I had a slight problem though because my chip reads Phoenix, and so does the Bios bootup, but it did not work using phlash. So, I had a feeling it was actually award so I tried the award instructions and it worked perfectly. I must be tired.

Anyway, I am quite surprised that after so long (a year running this board now) that I found a newer bios for this old machine. It took forever to find the correct search keywords. The person who gave this to me said he never updated or saved any files or manuals. However it is running fantastic as a home server and should now support the CPU I am thinking about getting. Thanks