Quote Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue View Post
looks like gigabyte put out an updated "F5" offical bios and they have a special "FLASHSPI.EXE" and Autoexec.bat included...so...no "Qflash" is my impression to get F5 flashed...might be the problem; that is the built-in Qflash program...if they changed the boot block and Qflash doesn't update that area, that would cause your bios to continuously to loop.
It would be interesting to decompile both those F5 bios and see what the actual difference is. Even opening them with ami tools might show something. Maybe I'll look into that if I get really bored. The way qflash works I think it's really hard to tell if it's flashing the boot block or not.