GIGABYTE's support is pretty good. There have been a number of BIOS upgrades since I bought the board for my first hackintosh. However, the BIOS files all come as self-extracing Windows .exe files. I don't have a Windows machine anywhere in my house. Honest.
I found two programs to uncompress those files on a Mac though. Zipeg has has a simple gui and works a treat.
If you prefer to use the command line, then there is http://p7zip.sourceforge.net. If you have the MacPorts installed, then it's simply
sudo port install p7zip
This will install the 7z program in /opt/local/bin.
How to upgrade the BIOS
- Download the BIOS from gigabyte.com
- Download either zipeg or p7zip
- Unpack the .exe file and put the BIOS file on a MS-DOS formatted USB stick
- Restart your computer and hit the "end key". In case you have an Apple keyboard, then you may not have a key labelled "end". It's the one to the right of the "delete".
- This will start the Q-Flash utility. Select the file you want and let it do its job
Success. The "F6" version is installed.
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