Gigabyte ga-ax370 gaming 3 backup bios question.

[razenxd]

Hello.
A friend of mine gave to me the motherboard of the title.
He had it in storage for a long time and he couldn't recall what the problem was.
So I set the motherboard up on my bench and it wouldnt post at all.
I tried to kick in the backup bios by holding power button and reset button for 10 seconds and then the motherboard booted and I got onto bios.
Saved exit motherboard booted again.
Left it overnight at the bench, and today its not booting again.
Again it booted after I kicked in the backup bios.
Isn't supposed that when you boot on the secondary bios it writes it self into the first one?
It leads me to believe that the first bios chip is toasted and becomes corrupted on its own.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks

[razenxd]

Re: Gigabyte ga-ax370 gaming 3 backup bios question.

So just an update for anybody has the same issue and come across that topic.
When on old version bios, if the first one is corrupted and you boot from backup when you try to update it will update ONLY the backup chip and not also the main one.
I've solved the issue by using efiflash on a FreeDos live USB.
I Flashed the same bios there was in backup chip with efiflash and problem solved.
I've then chained some bios updates(F20--->F31--->F40--->F51d---F51h) using Q-flash and motherboard is up and running totally fine.