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Looks like for my mobo they offer an exe, but also a CAP file, which may be a bios update file, who knows. More research needed I suppose.
However, I am at least on the latest as of now since it was back in May that my bios last had an update, and I only switched in the past month.
Yup, that cap file is the one you'd use for an update. You download it, unzip it to your USB, and (sometimes) rename the cap file. After that it's more waiting than doing anything.
That's always helpful lol but now you've got the best of both worlds, you don't need to run an update and you know how to do it whenever you do
I don't know what I was expecting, but a CAP file wasn't it. I thought it would have just been a BIN file of sorts. Though, I guess now that I think about it, it has been a while since I have done BIOS updates in any other way than through an executable running some sort of flasher mechanism.
Thanks!