[Lsdmeasap]

Ya, I am not sure either why it is made to be silent, I guess maybe to Prevent User interruption? But like you said, sounds like that may be more likely with it not asking you anything now

They both have a Autoexec.bat to Automatically run them, but I can see just as you said with the new one being silent far more users rebooting mid-process thinking nothing is going on

I really do not think the BIOS chip matters much, and both programs would just clear DMI Pool and flash in the New BIOS.

I am not so sure about all of this, maybe I can get Gigabyte to give me a good answer on why the change of the program itself, and why silent now.

I will for sure be pointing out the issue you have brought forward, as I see it as a very valid point of failure. And possible point of Increased RMA's due to a interrupted flash. Especially with no words of warning on how things have changed from the Previous Flash Utility Process, and no explanation to new or old users to expect a silent unattended flash.

As a side note to my above comment about Flash895. You can use the new app FlashSPI as well for the USB Bootable method, just change the command name to the program which you plan to use FlashSPI or Flash895. Both will work as I see the autoexec.bet file is the same in each package, it just runs the flash command same as you would do in DOS. But expect a silent Unattended flash as noted above if you use FlashSPI with a USB Bootable

WOW, Really! How are "New To Flashing" users supposed to know how long it takes, and when it is done with the new method being silent and unattended?