Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3 stuck at bios screen after update

katie279

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Hi folks,

Trying to fix the fact my PC won't recover from sleep mode properly from another thread and one suggestion was quite sensibly to update the bios.

Putting aside the total mess of instructions that Gigabyte offered here:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-AB350-Gaming-3-rev-1x/support#support-dl-bios

My Bios was v4, so picking through the mess of their guidance I worked out I'd need to:

- Install v31
- Then install EC FW Update Tool
- Then install v40
- Then install v52e

To then be up to date.

However I tried installing v31 and it completed fine and restarted and then just hung at the bios flash screen.

I've tried:
- removing all but one ram sticks
- disconnected all sata drives
- even tried switching it off and on again... ;)

Any ideas on how to reset/revert or flash this another way? It can't load the bios or the q-flash utility, so scratching my head a bit....!
 
Well I admire your sacrifice, kind sir!!

Ok, one slight quirk is that the gigabyte instructions said I need to install the ecfw update before I install the next bios update and this appears like a Windows update (ie needs to be run in Windows) and my windows is on the m2 drive.

Can I change a setting in the bios to get the m2 drive working again?
 
Ah right ok, don't recall that setting, but may appear once I've updated - given bios version was from some time ago, it may not have been there.

Give yourself a beer tonight - really helpful, would have taken me hours to get there. If your other half asks why, just don't tell them you've been helping me learn to flash properly..... :eek:
 
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