On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:49:20 +1100, Monty
wrote:


and used CTMC to tear it apart and examine all the pieces,
but couldn't find anything the looked like a BIOS rev. Maybe
the current rev actually is "FA", but I don't see that on
the list for rev. 1.0 boards.

Maybe this is a suitable occasion to speculate !!!

Let us say that there was a typo made when typing "REV.2.1" to add to
the nomenclature for the motherboard and someone typed "REV.1.2".

This could then let us believe that we really do have a Rev 2.1 board
and we could then use the 2.1 bioses. After all, the "1.2" board is
using a 2.1 bios. In your case, this is bios Rev FA. I would guess
that when you did a backup of your bios, the filename is M55PS3G.FA


Well.... I had to go back and run Q-Flash again to be sure,
because I had renamed the saved file. When I re-ran it, the
filename field was blank--I was required to type something
in


Well, that was the file that I got when I ran the Rev FA download
executable "motherboard_bios_ga-m55plus-s3g_2.x_fa.exe".

If you are a gambler you could download and install Rev FH bios.

If you are not a gambler then you might leave the bios alone !


I'm not really a gambler, but I am an idiot--does that
count? ;-)


Your opening sentence began: "When I boot my computer, the first
screen of the BIOS claims: "Award v6.00PG"."


Yeah, I didn't realise that somewhere a little further down
it was telling me that the BIOS revision was "FA". I had
only looked at the available updates for a REV: 1.0 board,
and nothing like "FA" was listed. Now I see "FA" listed for
the REV: 2.1 boards, and the initial BIOS was Revision "FA".


I Googled "Award v6.00PG" and all the pages that I viewed wanted to
upgrade their bios from that level.


I led you astray. That idiot thing again.


If the box continues running ok, I'm just gonna leave it.
The descriptions of the BIOS updates on the Gigabyte pages
are so terse that I have little idea of what may work
better--or not.

If the box gets too wonky, and I suspect it might have
something to do with the BIOS, I'll just start looking for
another board, and only play with flashing this one after
the new board is in hand.

Thanks again for your time.

--
croy