A BIOS Flash Turns GIGABYTE's EX58-UD4 Mobo into SLI Mobo!

[Apoptosis]

PC Home Advance in Taiwan managed to work out if you flash GIGABYTE's GA-EX58-UD4 motherboard with the latest F6 GIGABYTE UD4P BIOS (this board has official SLI support) from the GIGABYTE website, it will enable SLI support on the cheaper UD4 model.

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Since you are flashing your board with a different model BIOS, you cannot just use the BIOS QFlash utility or the Windows based @BIOS. Instead, you need to flash your UD4 board with a DOS BIOS flashing program called SPIFLASH - a quick Google reveals it is readily available online. Once you've downloaded the utility, you need to enter DOS mode with a boot disk and simply type in the command "SPIFLASH EX58UD4P.F6", then the BIOS flash update will proceed. Once you've rebooted and gone back into Windows, you'll have SLI support.

Remember that flashing your board with a different BIOS will more than likely void your warranty and do take care if you wish to try it out.

[InspectahACE]

I read this last night on another site...that's kind of a sneaky bastard thing to do(although inexpensive) but I bet Nvidia's gonna have a tight wad up their bum after hearin this(i would anyway)..more power to those gigabyte owners who do it though

[hainer36]

any news on the GA-EX58-UD3R being hacked to support SLI, or am i stuck with Crossfire

[DaddyRabbit]

While I am a "single card" type I have read that you can flash the UD3R BIOS with the UD3R-SLI BIOS (linked below) successfully.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Moth ... uctID=3018

This thread discusses it a bit:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... id=2284106

I would be careful with this and it may void the warranty as stated but the boards are practically the same.

Note that both the UD3R and UD3R-SLI are the same price on the EGG but the SLI doesn't have the MIR (but you do get the SLI bridge included so its a wash).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... e=GIGABYTE

[DaddyRabbit]

Looks like it's official!

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/News/Motherboard/News_List.aspx?NewsID=1450

[DMB2000uk]

Props to gigabyte for seeing that they can't stop this and have actually embraced it!

Dan