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I purchased two USB2 16GB thumb drives and followed the QFlash Plus instructions to attempt to update from F10 to F13. But over hours of trial I was unsuccessful.
I formatted the thumb drive FAT32, copied and renamed the F13 BIOS file "gigabyte.bin," inserted in the "white" USB2 board port, powered the board on, and pushed the QFP button on the board.
What occurred with each failed attempt:
a) the QFP LED on the board blinked for about 80 seconds
b) the fans and board powered up, the LED turned solid, then blinked slowly for about 10 seconds
c) the board powered down with the LED turned off
d) on booting the BIOS reported "BIOS has been updated..." but it hadn't
e) my desired BIOS settings required resetting.
This process should take 4-5 minutes when run properly.
Further attempts were made re-downloading the F13 file from the Gigabyte site via a Windows computer. The thumb drive was reformatted via Windows as FAT32, and the BIOS file was copied to the drive and renamed.
I made an attempt by changing the BIOS file name to "GIGABYTE.bin" That failed.
I made another attempt using "GIGABYTE.bin" but included the other three files from the compressed download to see if that made any difference. That failed.
I tried using a different USB2 thumb drive. That failed.
I'm at a loss why QFP isn't working for me. Probably a user error, but I have tried about every option I can think of.
Perhaps doesn't like the fact that I flashed the TB3 card? There are numerous reports on-line of Gigabyte boards failing to run QFP. So maybe it's not my error?
Thanks @macleap for your detailed assistance. Now to see if I can implement "SleepWatcher."