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hi this is Mike from Mike unboxing

reviews and how to and on today's video

I'm going to show you how to do a USB

bars flashback on the Asus b650 tough

gaming plus Wi-Fi this is actually a

very simple thing to do and certainly if

you've picked up one of these boards and

you haven't updated the boss I would

strongly suggest doing this before you

build your system there are a lot of

improvements in the latest bosses and

especially after June of 20123 where

they've adjusted the vcore voltage so

making the processor not run ther

nuclear which is always a good thing so

things you're going to need for this

you're going to need obviously the

motherboard itself something to put the

motherboard on ideally on a box I'm

going to use the motherboard box here

that's going to be absolutely fine uh

you also need a power supply ATX power

supply so I'm just using this thermote

tough power sfx 1000 wat when it comes

to connectivity for the power you'll

need two connections one of which being

the EPS 8 Pin and also you will need the

24 pin main power you will also need a

USB flash drive ideally one which is

less than 32 GB in size predominantly

for the reason that this needs to be

formatted in the fat 32 format drives

over 32 GB in size won't like fat 32

they'll try and format to xat or NTFS so

by having a 32 gig drive that is

removing some of that problem if for

some reason you don't have access to a

drive as small as this you can create an

additional partition on a larger Drive

should you wish to this potentially can

add a few problems but it is a way

around it we have done a video on how to

do that which will link in the video

description also other things you'll

need to perform this task is a little

bit of free time about 5 minutes and

also a working computer either a

Macintosh or a PC which you can actually

download the BIOS onto so you will need

access to the internet and also that

unit needs to have a USB port to plug

your USB drive into hopefully that will

make sense if it does we can proceed and

we'll go over to the computer now and

I'll show you how to download the BIOS

how to rename it into a suitable file

type and then we'll get on to actually

doing the BIOS flash itself so first of

all you want to go to the website for

your particular motherboard now in this

particular instance we're using the

tough gaming b650 plus Wi-Fi do make

sure when you're trying to do this that

you actually get the right motherboard

there are variants of this which don't

have Wi-Fi and the B won't work so make

sure you get the right version if you're

not too sure look on your motherboard

box and double check you have got the

right model this will also apply to

other models within the Asus range so if

you have got a slightly different model

you can follow along with this but just

make sure you go to the appropriate site

and get the appropriate bios for your

motherboard so we're going to want to

head over to the support tab which is

here and you've got various things here

it starts off with FAQs we want drivers

and tools and we want boss and firmware

now depending when you're watching this

if you're trying to work out what BIOS

version you need then you can click over

to the CPU and memory support Tab and

that will tell you which processors are

supported and which bios revisions they

require as it stands at the moment this

isn't too much of a problem so we're

just going to head straight on and get

the latest

bios so click on bi and firmware scroll

down a little bit and normally the very

newest one is at the top so this one is

from the 16th of October 2023 and we're

currently the 1st of November so this

one's a couple of weeks old so this is

going to be absolutely fine

if you want a slightly older bios then

you click on see all downloads and this

will show all the previous versions so

the latest one is 1811 1807 1654 Etc so

the higher the number the newer the BIOS

now it does mention there before running

the USB B flashback tool please rename

the bar file to tgb 650 pw. cap using

bar renamer and this is a file which is

actually included in your download so

don't worry you can do it manually if

you want to and if you're not too sure

what that stands for it's tough gaming

b650 plus Wi-Fi so that's how the

letters break down so if for some reason

you forget you can just basically make

that up for yourself using the

motherboard model name anyway let's move

on so we're going to click on download

we'll save this to the desktop for

Simplicity

sake and it is a ZIP file so we are

going to need to unzip it and it

downloads pretty quickly so now we can

minimize this window and now onto our

desktop we can unzip the file so if we

right click and choose extract all we'll

extract it to the default location which

is back to a new folder on our desktop

click on

extract and there is our file so if

you're updating the BIOS from actually

within the BIOS if you have a working

system you can just use this file on its

own on a USB stick but if you don't have

a working system and you need to update

the boss via the flashback method using

the button on the back then you do have

to rename this file otherwise the

motherboard simply cannot recognize it

it's a very simple and straightforward

thing to do all you need to do is to

click on Boss renamer

exe and this will come up as a Dos box

press any key to continue and the Box

will

close so there we go so now our file is

appropriately named so now we can get

our USB stick

ready so I just plugged in our USB drive

now it's currently got a previous bar on

there cuz I use this drive for pretty

much every bar update so for Simplicity

we're going to format it just to make

sure it's completely clean and again

we're going to choose the fat 32 you

potentially might have the option for

NTFS or X fat don't choose that choose

fat 32 or is it just simply won't work

default allocation size you can just set

to default and where it says volume

label leave that blank when you're happy

click on start this will erase the drive

in its entirety

you will get a notification saying you

sure you want to do this we are so we're

going to click

okay and our drive is now formatted so

now we can close this down and all we

need to do is to now copy this file onto

our USB drive so however you want to do

it you can either drag and drop it or

you can copy and paste so I'm going to

do copy then we're going to go to our

USB drive and then right click and

choose

paste and there we go there is our cap

file as expected if you're not too sure

if it's the right one look at the file

size it should be running around 32

megabytes in this instance

32772 Koby which is absolutely fine so

now we can eject this drive by clicking

on the eject button or you can just

remove it the choice is entirely up to

you and now we can head over to our test

bench

scenario Okay so we've got our little

test bench set up here so the

motherboard is actually on top of the

box uh USB is facing out purely for

Simplicity for actually just so I can

show you the lights Flash in ETC so

we've got our powerly that is plugged

into the mains but currently Switched

Off very important and we're going to

connect to our connector so we've got

our 8 Pin EPS which goes into the top

corner of your motherboard you're

probably seeing that from some b-roll so

that is pretty straightforward you don't

have to plug in all of them there is an

extra four pin connector and your

motherboard may have more if you've got

a a similar design you may have two

eights but just one of the eights is

absolutely fine the next one to plug in

is our 24 pin main power connector which

is on the side of the motherboard can't

really miss it is the biggest connection

on the board so let's plug that one in

also and just make sure that you hear

some kind of Click hopefully this one

hasn't but it is in firmly just check

that it's seated fully down and that is

pretty much it in terms of actually

powering the motherboard so the next

thing to do is to make sure you plug

your USB stick into the correct Port now

it's really hard if this is in a dark

area away from you and you can't really

see because all the USB ports look the

same if you do look very closely you'll

find that one of the USB ports actually

has a white box around it your

motherboard may be slightly different

but it should say on there bios that is

the one we need to use so our USB drive

is plugged in and we're pretty much

ready to go now a lot of people ask this

question do I need to do this on a bare

board now the simple answer is no you

don't but as I always say if you're

doing it on a bare board if for some

reason it doesn't flash or it fails it's

going to be really easy to go through

and work out what the potential problem

is whether it's a connection whether

it's the USB stick the file whereas if

maybe you've got other things plugged in

such as your front panel connectors a

graphics card um USB ports all that kind

of stuff potentially any of those could

have damage to them which is preventing

the system from working especially

things like your reset switch or your

power on button of which on cases I've

seen numerous occasions where the reset

button's been damaged it's in the

shorted position and the motherboard

just won't turn on at all so for me

personally a bare system is the way to

do it if you're watching this video

because you've actually tried to do this

on your own motherboard and it's been

failing with it actually in a built

system the first thing I would suggest

to do is just take the motherboard out

put it onto a little box like this and

do a very little minimal setup and

hopefully this should cure the problem

anyway let's get on and do it so we're

going to turn on our power

supply so that is powered on and now

what we need to do is just press the

bar's flashback button which is located

just here there is actually an LED next

to it which gives you some indication of

what is going on normally for this I

press and hold the button for about 2 or

3 seconds just to make sure that the

process is starting so let's go ahead

and do that one two 3 and release and

you can see already hopefully just about

the BIOS LED is flashing there so that

means it is actually initializing the

onboard systems it isn't reading the

drive straight away if for any reason it

doesn't flash like this and it just goes

to a solid green light straight away

that means either it cannot initialize

or it cannot recognize the USB drive or

possibly the file on it so do make sure

that that is correct you should find it

flashes steady for a little while maybe

a minute or so and then we're going to

get to a point where the speed will

change so it will start flashing a

little bit quicker then at the end it

should flash normally this sort of speed

again and then we're looking for the

actual ad to turn off at the very end so

we're going to let it go on do its thing

it should take anywhere up to about 5

minutes to do this process so just leave

it to one side and I think the light is

flashing slightly quicker now so yeah

we'll just let it carry on and do its

thing and we'll come back when it's

finished and there we go the bias LED

has now stopped

flashing so that would signify that the

process is done now you may find your

particular system your power supply you

may have switched on and now you'll find

that the power has turned off depending

on the power supply yours may or may not

spin up a lot of power supplies these

days have a zero fan technology so they

only turn on when they're under a

certain amount of load and this type of

load is nowhere near enough to actually

cause the fans to kick in yours may have

done everyone's is slightly different

but that is essentially it so now what

we can do is we can actually turn off

the power so turn off our power supply

switch and then we can remove our USB

stick disconnect the power cables and

we're pretty much ready to build our

system so at this point now everything

is done the BIOS has been flashed so

that's absolutely fine I would suggest

if you have got your system set up

something like this already it's

probably a good idea now just to put

your processor in your RAM and actually

just do a test boot to see what happens

you will have diagnostic LEDs on this

particular board if this is the one

you're flashing so you can see that

everything is okay make sure it goes

past the CPU and RAM cycle you probably

get it it finishes on the boot LED cuz

there possibly won't be an operating

system installed but overall I think

that is going to be pretty much it

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