Vassilis008 wrote:
Is the BIOS settings save function on a USB stick implemented directly in the bios? For some reason I thought it didn't work if they were reloaded on an updated version of the bios.
Yes, it is in the BIOS. You go into the Tools tab, click on "Asus User Profile", and the last item at the bottom is "Load/Save profile on USB Drive".
From there, you select the USB drive ( I use a spare USB stick and format it in FAT with a 3Gb volume only, because the settings can't be saved on a NTFS volume) and press the key to save the settings in the *.CMO format. Then you input the file name and verify it is saved.
You then update the BIOS using whatever way you like, I usually have the BIOS file on the same USB stick and load it from the "Asus EZ Flash" item in the same Tools section.
And after the usual 2-3 reboots after the update you go back in the BIOS and reload the previous settings by double-clicking on the same whatever.CMO file from the same section in the BIOS so to load it instead of saving it.
I have a Maximus XI Hero and it works perfectly, it got all the settings I had in the previous BIOS version (was on 1105 and now am on 1302), all of them, from the overclock voltages and the inner depths of my custom DRAM timings up to the Chassis FAN configuration and BOOT defaults, all of them (I checked them one by one against the pictures I took of each page of the previous BIOS version). The only thing I lost is that it obviously cleared the Admin/User password for the BIOS settings, if you use that.
