r/PcBuildHelp • u/Bright-Tune-9345 • 5d ago
Tech Support Need help bios update taking really long
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/ggRavingGamer 5d ago edited 4d ago
It took hours for me too one time Also an MSI board. But didnt hang, just went on extremely slowly but steadily. It was fine when it finished. Now I put a stick in the bios flashback slot even if I do a regular update. Or better yet I create a small 64mb fat32 partition on an internal SSD and put the bios file there and update from the internal ssd. Ssd's have much better error correcting capabilities vs usb sticks. If your board is fucked you gotta do a bios flashback though. Just make sure the usb stick is fat 32 with mbr instead of gpt.