Can’t boot? Use BIOS Flashback to update your BIOS
For instructions: How to use BIOS Flashback
- Determine your motherboard make/model and pull up the site for it
- Run the System Information app from Windows start menu
- Ctrl+C Copy the line “BaseBoard Product” and paste it in google search.
- The correct result is the first non-sponsored result from the domain of the manufacturer.
- Once there, you can find the BIOS located under the support section.
- Download the most recent BIOS.
- Insert a spare USB thumb drive, it must be formatted as FAT32.
Some systems can read the BIOS file directly from the hard drive. If so, then extract the BIOS to your C:\ drive instead and skip step 5. - Extract the BIOS you downloaded in step 3 to a USB thumb drive.
- Reboot the computer then press the Del key repeatedly until the BIOS menu appears.
- Navigate to the BIOS update section. It is named differently depending on what company manufactured your motherboard:
Asus: EZ Flash Gigabyte: Q-Flash MSi: M-Flash - Navigate to the BIOS update file you extracted in step 5 then press enter.
- The BIOS flash begins. It can take up to 10 minutes.
Do not interrupt the process in any way, the system will automatically reboot itself when it completes or show a reboot prompt.
