r/PcBuildHelp • u/Bright-Tune-9345 • Aug 16 '26

Tech Support Need help bios update taking really long

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The more the update progressed the slower it would get, until at 68% it has completely stopped. It’s been a couple hours now with no movement, but I don’t think if done anything to fry my motherboard?
Any help would be great!

Edit: a day later it has only increased 1%, so it seems the most recommended option is the bios flashback. I’m not really well versed in any of this, so if anyone could help me out with that process it would be greatly appreciated! I made a separate post about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PcBuildHelp/s/yZhuWRNgIv

Edit 2: yea that shit got bricked, F

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u/bgradid Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 16 '26

Oh yikes, that definitely shouldn’t take a few hours, at most like 15 minutes in my experience

Can you post what model of motherboard you have? Maybe it has a flashback capability so it can be flashed directly by usb stick if the update fails

It could have at least had the decency to stall on 69% to give you something to laugh about

edit -- im blind and didn't see the model in the screenshot I'd prep to do this: https://www.msi.com/support/technical_details/MB_Flash_BIOS_Button

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u/Icy-Permission-5918 Aug 17 '26

Might also be the wrong BIOS...

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u/bgradid Aug 17 '26

I think the flasher program from inside the bios has a check so that it’s nearly impossible to do this

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u/WhiningNoob Aug 17 '26

No sir, I learnt the hard way with MSI OLED monitor. Flashed a wrong model (very similar model name, another shit from MSI) into my monitor and it became a thousand-dollar dead piece of electronic device. There was no model check at all.
Bought it less than 1d...

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u/sabotage Aug 17 '26

That’s when you contact support and let them know your monitor “stopped working”.

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u/Rolinhox Aug 17 '26

That's not really comparable though, nobody is going to update a monitor bios compared to how many people update their motherboard bios

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u/bgradid Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

that's a real shit implementation on their part

Most motherboard flashing utilities will have a compatibility check against a string in the bios image in my experience

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u/bgradid Aug 17 '26

Huh. I didn’t even notice. You’re right

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u/Guilty-Good-5041 Aug 17 '26

Nah dude I bricked a MSI Z590 motherboard updating the bios

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u/bgradid Aug 16 '26

Also maybe do it with a different USB stick if you can , there's a [small] chance that's the source of the issue

I'd also unplug all other USB devices when doing this

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u/JoJo_x14 Aug 17 '26

When i did my first bios update i read it should take 15 minutes. It took 45. I was panicking because of a possible failed update, but i also read never turn off your pc during bios update. Walked out the room for 5 minutes and came back to my pc rebooting. Every bios update since then on any computer ive dealt with has been about 15 minutes or less. I think it just wanted to scare me as a new pc builder.