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Here are the details on the recovery page: Title: HP BIOS Update The system BIOS is being recovered. The recovery will take several minutes to complete. In Red: Do not shut down or remove external power from your computer during process. Writing BIOS Image Block 64/4096 A progress bar: 1 percent progress (From 6 hrs) Answer from the-mighty-miths on reddit.com

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r/buildapc on Reddit: BIOS update taking far too long?

October 10, 2022 -

I’ve got the new Gigabyte X670 Aorus Elite motherboard. The BIOS version was F4, and I am updating to F5.

I downloaded the BIOS file, plugged in the thumb drive and copied it over, then I started the update in the actual BIOS itself about 30 minutes ago. The screen went dark after a minute or so and the PC has just been sitting and idling since then. The fans are all spinning and the RGB is on but nothing else is happening. I don’t think it’s reset itself or anything.

I should probably add that prior to this, the PC wouldn’t wake up from sleep mode. When I’d try to wake it up, it would do this exact same thing. Fans spinning, but no actual boot. I’d have to hard reset it to get it to boot.

What should I do? I know you’re not supposed to interrupt a BIOS update, but part of me thinks the update is complete and for some reason its having an issue resetting back into Windows. Should I give it a shot or wait?

EDIT: Solved! So I went ahead and did a hard reset. The bios never updated. After some troubleshooting, I found out that the XMP/EXPO profile was to blame. I guess the system doesn’t like it. After disabling it, I was able to update the bios no problem, and the computer now wakes from sleep with no issues.

Might try xmp again after you get a successful update. Seems like ram compatibility/stability tweaks are common updates for bios

Bios updates takes around 5 min. Way less or more means something went wrong. Luckily, your MB has the bios flash button on the I/O panel so you can reflash even if something did go wrong. Shut it off and try to boot. If nothing, reflash with the button. Google for how to guides.

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r/Alienware on Reddit: BIOS Update taking forever. I want to sleep but I'm stressing

December 10, 2020 -

I'm on an Alienware Aurora R11. I tried updating my BIOS as I do, with Alienware Update this time. It's either that or Support Assist. I've never ran into problems before and I didn't know until today that people have bricked their motherboards by doing this. I'm really scared because I just dropped 1900 on this computer a few days ago and I absolutely can't afford to repair it, let alone replace it. Currently, the Alienware Update window says:
Installing Updates (3 of 3)
Warning: The current operation can no longer be cancelled.
(The warning you normally get about not unplugging anything or whatever. you know)
I have automatically restart system when required checked. It has not turned off even once.
Cancel is partially faded out and I can't click on it.
The more I look into this, the more stressed I get. I need sleep but I'm so tense and shaking, I feel like everything I've just invested in could collapse.
I don't know if I said this already or if it was clear, but the update is still going on. I'm writing this from the same computer that is being updated. I need to get this post out so I'm not making any edits at the moment. Sorry.

If you're still in Windows you can just shut down. The bios doesn't update until it restarts and boots into the bios update. You're just experiencing an issue with the shit support assist software locking up. It will eventually fail out anyway so you can just go to bed and leave it alone.

Nevermind, some things I wanted to say:

I got my computer on the 25th of November. Pretty recent, but long ago enough for there to be some important things on there.
It’s been updating for well over an hour, probably more than an hour and a half now.
I know this isn’t an original problem, but everybody else’s version is slightly different from mind, and I can’t move forward with confidence.
I do have to get up early tomorrow. If you can, preferably respond before 1AM EST. If you can’t, that’s okay.
The whole shaking thing has stopped, that was just for a few minutes, but I’m still really tense.

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r/techsupport on Reddit: BIOS update taking forever (6hrs)

June 3, 2021 -

Hello guys, I'm really in need of help. From last 2-3 days, I was getting error messages with Blue screen.( The one with :-( emoji and QR Code) It was saying your system ran into problems, restarting. So it used to restart. I checked all drivers, all were updated. Today morning also it happened. But when restarting, I got a message saying BIOS needs to be recovered. So I clicked on Start Recovery option. But since then, the recovery page is on and just 1 percent progress. It's been 6 hrs since it started and it's as it was the first minute. Please help and also state possible reasons for this.

Here are the details on the recovery page: Title: HP BIOS Update The system BIOS is being recovered. The recovery will take several minutes to complete. In Red: Do not shut down or remove external power from your computer during process. Writing BIOS Image Block 64/4096 A progress bar: 1 percent progress (From 6 hrs)

I waited for more than 24 hrs. So I concluded that update is stuck. So I decided to long-press the power button for say 40 sec and wait for the update to restart. But before I could do that, I had accidentally removes power supply an hour back and didn't notice it. (Almost 24 hrs, laptop was connected to power supply) So battery drained, and screen went off automatically.. Then I noticed that power is disconnected. I connected and the update started again on the screen. This time, it didn't get stuck. It continued and my BIOS was updated locally. That backup BIOS was corrupted I guess because system again started to restart on its own with a on time of 15-20 minutes. So during this on time, I downloaded latest BIOS version from official website of HP. And before it restarts again, I downloaded and started installing latest BIOS. After that, system restarted almost after 6 hrs. But progress was never stuck. But system became considerably slow. I checked Windows Update. One update was due. I did that as well. Again it took around 8-12 hrs. (Update size was very large and my net speed was around 2 Mbps. just) So it was next day. I opened laptop and yeah it was rocking and rolling 😊👍. So guys, don't worry if any such thing happens. Keep checking BIOS version time to time. (Hard to say but..) download windows update as well from time to time. And don't panic. PS: I hardly ate anything or drank anything during all this 48-60 hrs of Drama.😢 You don't do like that. Don't panick.

reddit.com › r/pcbuild › what to do if my bios update is taking forever and and orange light is constantly on

r/PcBuild on Reddit: What to do if my bios update is taking forever and and orange light is constantly on

February 18, 2023 -

I don’t know what to do can anyone help

Keep waiting, you dont want to brick the board

Maybe its just done, look up a video for this exact mobo and compare the symptoms

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r/MSI_Gaming on Reddit: BIOS update taking forever and I can’t see how it’s progressing

October 26, 2023 -

I recently download the latest BIOS update for my MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max motherboard. I copied the files to a USB with fat32 format, opened up the BIOS and started updating.

At first it seemed to be doing well, progressing slowly. Then the display went to standby and I didn’t check it for over an hour. Now when I turn on the display it shows “no signal” like it isn’t connected, and I can’t see how far the update has progressed.

The PC is definitely still on, but I have no way of knowing if it’s still updating or if something is wrong. Does anyone have know what’s up and if I should be worried?

screen shuoldnt of turned off unless it was done.. my guess something bad happened

reddit.com › r/pcmasterrace › how long does a bios update take ? should i be worried about the black screen

r/pcmasterrace on Reddit: How long does a BIOS update take ? Should I be worried about the black screen

August 10, 2025 -

So... My PC was having some issues, and windows 10 is getting unsupported in a few months.

So I got all my sensitive data out, reset the windows 10, updated it, got MSI center, and figured out a BIOS update couldn't hurt.

Buuuuut it's been an hour, my screen still doesn't give me any feedback.

I just have a single rRGB light on the motherboard lit up rn, behing the graphics card. So... What do I do ? Should I be worried?

usually it dont take long, probably 10-20 mins long for the whole operation of accessing the BIOS, the flashing of the BIOS and the POST flash boot up. but for an hour? are you sure you got the right bios for your motherboard model? coz you might have bricked your motherboard. edit: you got your bios from MSI center? it's better you downloaded the rom from your motherboard product page, format your USB to fat32, unzip the rom files to the USB and enter bios to perform the flash. 3rd party apps, initiating from the desktop/OS level might bring problems.

Words of wisdom to carry forward - if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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r/pcmasterrace on Reddit: Flashing bios taking forever

August 23, 2025 -

How long does it normally take?

Anything longer than 10min is failed flash. Try another usb stick if you have. I’ve had same issue with MSI B650i edge wifi red/yellow led and no boot, eventualy had to RMA mbo cause it was faulty.

https://youtu.be/O8MwV-3oWzY?feature=shared Hope this helps.

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r/pchelp on Reddit: Bios still updating after 40 mins

September 11, 2024 -

I have a Asus ProArt Z490 - Creator 10g the bios hasn't been updated in a long time the version was 0607 which from my research is a beta version from 2020. Using the AI Suite 3, I tried updating the bios but said there was no need for the update. I tried updating and making sure I had the right version of AI Suite 3, there is a program called "UpdateBios.exe" in the new the folder with AI Suite 3 and when opening it, it asked if you want to update the bios. And it been on this screen for about an hour. I can still see my desktop background and move my mouse. I don't think the update is working, but I don't want to touch anything.

Since it is the BIOS, I‘d accept this extra time and just wait. I am not a BIOS expert though.

This is actually intresing, I wouldn't touch it, but if it stays like this for more than a day. I would say fuck it, and get ready to either buy a new motherboard or lookup if yours has a dual bios, that you can hopefully restore.

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r/ASRock on Reddit: BIOS update taking way too long

December 3, 2024 -

Im doing a bios update right and it's taking almost 15 minutes or more for 1%(right now its at 3%) Im updating my b650i from 2.02 to 3.10. never happened to me with other mobo brands. I dont want to turn the sistem off because theres a risk of bricking, but i dont believe this is normal behaviour. Any clues? What should i do?

That’s too long

Should be done by now

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r/framework on Reddit: Bios update taking forever

October 30, 2023 -

I received my FW amd batch 3 diy kit. I followed the directions to update the bios from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 using a fat32 usb drive.

The screen has been showing this for the past 30 mins.

Should I wait longer? Don’t want to brick it

No luck, I put the fat32 flash drive with the bios update utility back in. The screen stays black on reboot, none of the function keys like f12 do anything. I also tried my baseus charger, swapped gskill ram for Corsair (while attempting to update bios again or boot fedora installer). To sum things up: With dell xps charger, I ran bios update and it was stuck on screenshot attached to this post. Rebooted and the bios updater ran again and said I have 3.0.3 installed Shutdown PC Replaced usb drive with fedora installer and booted to a black screen, no function keys working Replaced usb thumb drive with bios updater, and booted to black screen, no function keys working. From what I can tell the bios updater is not running again Replaced ram, same black screen, bios updater not running. Tried my baseus charger with bios updater, same black screen Thanks everyone for the troubleshooting help. I guess I bricked it. I’ll contact framework support and see if they can help me with some magic

Wanted to add that I don’t have an OS installed yet

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r/techsupport on Reddit: How long should a Bios Update take?

July 21, 2019 -

Hello.

I started a bios update earlier today (11ish pacific) and it was running fine until now. It's been stuck at 52% for about a half hour now. I have no control of m&k. It does not appear to be frozen because the CPU fan rpm is still changing.

Some notes:

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2 GHz 8-Core Processor
Mobo: MSI - B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC ATX AM4 Motherboard
bios update: E7B85AMS.17M

Any other questions please ask. Thanks!

5-10 minutes on the boards I've used. 30 mins stuck on 52% is not good IMO. Does the board have a way to install a bios through some kind of recovery?

Turning off the system won't hurt because your board has a bios flash button in the back. You can flash it without a cpu, ram ect. Updating BIOS with Flash BIOS Button Before updating: Please download the latest BIOS file that matches your motherboard model from MSI® website and rename the BIOS file to MSI.ROM. And then, save the MSI.ROM file to the root of USB flash drive. Important Only the FAT32 format USB flash drive supports updating BIOS by Flash BIOS Button. Connect power supply to CPU_PWR1 and ATX_PWR1. (No other components are necessary but power supply.) Plug the USB flash drive that contains the MSI.ROM file into the Flash BIOS Button port on rear I/O panel. Press the Flash BIOS Button to flash BIOS, and the LED next to the button starts flashing. After the flashing BIOS process is 100% completed, the LED would be off.

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r/LenovoLegion on Reddit: Helpp! haven’t moved past 20% in hours. Do i turn it off ?

March 12, 2026 - ... reboot and send it to technician if it didnt boot to reflash bios because bios flash wont take more than 5 minites not 10 hours or 20 if its stuck it will stay stuck because you flashed corrupted bios

reddit.com › r/alienware › is the bios update supposed to take a long time?

r/Alienware on Reddit: Is the bios update supposed to take a long time?

November 18, 2020 -

I’ve been sitting at the screen for like an hour and it’s still installing. I tried restarting the computer but it’s still seems to be taking forever should I just be patient? I have an aurora r11

Your not supposed to restart the pc during bios update. You may have bricked it. Can you get into bios after restarting?

Can you still get into windows

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r/buildapc on Reddit: How long does BIOS update take?

January 19, 2022 -

I have Asus X-570 E-Gaming. The mobo was showing green Q-LED today, I came to know it's because of failed boot. So, I'm updating the BIOS(firmware or host boot software). The size of the flash file is 32 MiB and the flash drive used is 2.0 one. It's been 22 min now and the green LED(which indicates the BIOS is being flashed) still hasn't gone off, and now I'm worried. What to do?

For reference:

Asus X570 E-Gaming, GSkill RipJaws 32 GiB DDR4 @ 3200MHz, Ryzen 5 3600, Samsung 980 Pro PCIe4 SSD, DeepCool 850W PSU, Zotac RTX 3090 Trinity

Ooof. I hope it finishes for you. It should reboot after it is done by itself. I hope it comes back up one way or the other. Firmware probably wouldn't fix a boot failure that happens out of the blue that clearing the CMOS wouldn't fix. The good news is that the board has a recovery firmware image normally (Q-LED code F0 through F4 for the BIOS attempting to use the recovery image). The LED you are talking is the Flashback LED (in between the Flashback button and the USB port) or the Q-LED (which displays the code and is located below the bottom most long PCIE x16 slot)? What I hope is happening is that you didn't unzip the firmware on the USB and it hasn't actually started flashing the BIOS. What you are supposed to do is unzip the file and either run the BIOSRenamer.exe file OR manually rename the .cap file to SX570EG.CAP on your USB stick. You then put your USB stick into the Flashback USB port (the very bottom one) and then press and hold the Flashback button for 3 seconds. Once the LED flashes 3 times and then starts flashing the BIOS. If you didn't rename the file, then I'd probably power it off since it has been roughly an hour, rename the file, clear the CMOS which will reset BIOS settings to the defaults and try to flash again. Though flashing the CMOS is optional and isn't always required, I definitely recommend it. You can clear the CMOS by completely powering down the PC, unplugging it and waiting about 10 seconds. All of the LED's should be off at this point and capacitors discharge. Now locate the CLRTC jumper pins (should be just 2 pins) located to the right of the bottom long PCIE x16 slot, left of the SATA connectors, Below the M.2 slot and above the RGB_HEAD2 pins. Apparently ASUS didn't make this a 3 pin with a jumper just sitting there for you to use, so you'll have to use something like a screw driver and lightly touch it between both pins at the same time (no pressure needed, it just needs to touch both) for a second. Now remove the screw driver and plug the cord back in try to do the Flashback process again. There is a CMOS battery, after powering down, that you can pop out to do the same thing but I wouldn't recommend it since the cradles can sometimes break easily when trying to get the battery out and the only way to fix that is to re-solder it back into place. Plus it is between the top two PCIE x16 slots and probably inconveniently under your GPU. IF your BIOS flashes and comes back up, it may still fail to boot due to the original problem. If that happens, find your Q-LED display (not the Flashback LED) and check the Q-Code table in the appendix of your motherboard manual to figure out why it is failing POST. Hopefully it is just 50 up to 55 and you just need to reseat your RAM sticks. You can also follow the POST process as it does its different test by watching the codes progress. If it was E8 thru EB, then the CMOS reset should have fixed that anyway. Good luck!

3-5 minutes in my experience. I've also had a BIOS flash seem like it was taking way too long. And it wasn't going to finish. It wouldn't boot. So I did clear CMOS and retried the flash. It worked the 2nd time. Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro for reference.

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r/computers on Reddit: Can yall help me? I’m trying to update the motherboard and bios but it’s not working

August 7, 2025 -

Do I need new usb? I think so idk

If your PC has lost power during a BIOS update then you're f***ed up. Check the behind ports for any button related to the BIOS, if not, then you are totally screwed. You have to buy a new motherboard and transfer your old components to the new one.

The flashing LED can mean that it's in the process of updating. If it goes past 10-15 minutes then I'd recommend trying another USB. Make sure to format the usb to Fat32, and that the only file on it is the bios update. Also check that it has some extra space to work with; 6-8GB should be fine. If you're able to boot into windows I'd also redownload the bios update and re-do the process of making it just to be sure it isn't a file issue.

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r/buildapc on Reddit: BIOS flash taking too long, should I be worried?

December 13, 2025 -

The BIOS light is blinking for close to 20 minutes

Really scared here The flash is about 30 mb

Edit - BIOS update time: - more than 1h

How to stop the BIOS flash

Update : there was no need to flash the BIOS because the motherboard came with 9000 ready

Should have just read the mother board box

Feel so fucking stupid for that

Thanks msi

Flashed my Asrock X870 within the Bios some days ago - took really long. (way longer than on my old X570). So if the Bios Flashback circuit only writes with 20 kb/s it would take 20 minutes (I dont know how fast this really is, but writing on an EEPROM is not fast) Personally I would recommend to flash a Bios within the UEFI and only use Flashback, if really necessary.

AM5 boards all require them to include a way to flash the bios without a CPU or even a working bios,. So you can just plug the flashdrive into the dedicated USB slot and press and hold the button for x amount of time. It depends on the board, just check your manual for how many seconds to hold it for.