Can I flash bios from any Acer computer that uses the exact same motherboard as mine? Veriton X2610G

Acer uses the same motherboard in lots of different models, and sometimes provides different bios for the different models even though they have exactly the same motherboard. Can I take a bios from a different model that uses the exact same motherboard and flash it on my computer?

Background is that I've got a Gateway SX2855 that uses the acer-h61h2-ad motherboard. It's compatible with Intel Sandy Bridge processors. Turns out that the chipset used is actually compatible with Ivy Bridge, if supported by a bios update. There's no such bios update for SX2855, but there is one for the Veriton X2610G which uses the same motherboard.

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billsey

But they do, the h61h2-ad isn't an Acer part number, it likely just is an internal number for the motherboard PCB and doesn't define what is loaded or not loaded on the PCB.

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billsey

Typically the answer is "no", the motherboards are not quite the same.

Frozone

billsey said:

Typically the answer is "no", the motherboards are not quite the same.

Well, I've done a lot of investigation and have found no record of there being different revisions of the h61h2-ad motherboard. Surely acer doesn't produce multiple secretly different versions of each motherboard for each of the different models where they use it?

billsey

But they do, the h61h2-ad isn't an Acer part number, it likely just is an internal number for the motherboard PCB and doesn't define what is loaded or not loaded on the PCB.

Frozone

billsey said:

But they do, the h61h2-ad isn't an Acer part number, it likely just is an internal number for the motherboard PCB and doesn't define what is loaded or not loaded on the PCB.

Ohhh, that makes sense; thank you for that explanation!

There must be an actual part number for the assembled board, though; maybe one of the stickers on the board.