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?
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?