Error encountered with Bios Flash.
Error encountered with Bios Flash.
You have a 2600 and a x470 SLI master. You upgraded to a 3600 and updated the BIOS, but after installation the system didn’t boot at all—neither the new BIOS nor any other settings worked. After rebooting, you pressed the power button, but it still wouldn’t start. It seems the issue might be with the BIOS update itself or a hardware problem. You may need to try reinstalling the BIOS from scratch or contacting ASRock support for further assistance.
Did you turn off the system during the BIOS update? If your board has BIOS Flashback support, you might try that instead. Otherwise, consider resetting the CMOS.
You damaged the board since you couldn’t let it restart by itself? That’s surprising... Send a return request for the board and avoid handling the BIOS again.
Start by disconnecting the power cord from the PSU, then take the coin cell battery off the motherboard. Leave it out for about three minutes, then put the battery back in and reconnect the power cord. Try booting up now. You're not sure what will happen yet. It looks like the flash might have completed before you pressed the power button to replace the CPU, which shouldn't have caused any damage.
Completely untrue. At the point the utility says its finished, its finished. Having it carry on working in the background while saying it is finished would be beyond stupid plus there's the fact it will run a byte for byte verification of the EEPROM to make sure the flash completed before it will say its finished. Nothing outside of the EEPROM flash matters, anything stored in NVRAM can be rewritten by the EEPROM at will (which is exactly what happens when you reset your bios to default values or do a full CMOS reset). So again, we cannot assume OP killed their board yet. It's possible they did but just as possible a simple CMOS reset will kick it back into life. Perhaps OP reset before it had chance to fully clear the NVRAM and its now trying to boot from a corrupted BIOS profile. If a CMOS reset doesn't bring it back then its probably dead (assuming OP didn't mess with anything else).
A week passed and I was 235€ behind with an Asus Prime x570. I was heading to the hardware store about 30 minutes before it closed on Monday. I’m glad with the motherboard, even though the BIOS is really frustrating. Still, I plan to try some recovery options or return my old X470 if possible. Thank you all for your quick replies during this stressful time—I really struggled but I believe I won’t fail again. Learning from pain is still the best teacher.