Perhaps a third party installed malware on your computer which flashed your bios. It is very, very unusual that your bios would just get flashed without your explicitly doing it. This is something that is underneath your operating system, for example windows would never touch your bios since the OS boots only once your BIOS is already running.
The process is usually done by using either built-in functionality of the old BIOS, or a MS-DOS-based program (booted from floppy), or more recently, a Windows program (which comes with a special driver to obtain access to hardware). (Linux? What's that?)
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If power goes out while flashing, you will likely be left with an unbootable computer. Some motherboards come with secondary firmware on a separate chip though, which kicks in if the main BIOS is corrupted (e.g. power failure during flashing). This firmware usually supports flashing the BIOS from a file in a CD or floppy disk.
Of course this was not the end of the world; you could pop it in another computer with dual-BIOS slots or a special BIOS programming device and program it, but unfortunately these special motherboards were rare and expensive as were the devices, which could usually only be found in some computer shops.
If you are using an Intel platform, some Intel motherboards have a way to update bios without the CPU. Check your manual. On Gigabyte boards, the feature is called "Qflash Plus". On Asus boards, the feature is "USB BIOS Flashback".
I had to recompile a special OpenWrt image with that option enabled, that image is available in the generic Pcengines APU upgrade guide on the OpenWrt wiki -bios-update
(that is more or less a copu-paste of what I did to help others in the thread linked by frollic)
Q-Flash Plus is a special feature that lets you flash the BIOS without having a CPU, RAM, or video card installed. The most common reason you would want/need to do this is if you had a new CPU that was not supported by the existing BIOS version on the motherboard.
as you cann see at the Auros homepage here -to-Update-Your-BIOS-Part-2.php they say the bios should be named as GIGABYTE.bin. at the end of the month im gonna buy a Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO AC and i will see witch einther gigabite.bin or GIGABYTE.bin schould be writen. best regards Claudio Santos
You are probably correct. Q-Flash Plus is very literal and simple-minded. It looks for a file with a particular name in the root of a flash drive that was formatted with FAT32. The flash drive has to be in the correct USB port. If it finds what it is looking for it tries to read the file and then proceed with flashing the BIOS. Otherwise, it just stops.
In my case, for a HP ProDesk 400 G4 Desktop Mini PC with Ubuntu 20.04 on it, I had to unzip the .exe (7z x spxxx.exe) file and move the *.bin to:/boot/efi/EFI/HP/DEVFW/firmware.bin. I had to rename the *.bin file to firmware.bin. After restart the bios update worked. I should mention that moving the *.bin to /boot/efi/EFI/HP/BIOS/New did not worked for me. Hope this helps someone.
Note that this does require another windows pc to open the bios-update executable, but there is no need to install windows on the target pc, nor do you need a windows recovery disk or windows-pe or any such thing.
Use a separate Windows system to download the correct bios-update executable for your system from the HP support site. In my case the file was called sp95703.exe (HP Notebook System BIOS Update, version F.35 Rev.A).
Run the executable on the Windows system. Don't worry, it will not try to install the update, but it will open a utility that creates a bios recovery drive, as explained on the HP site. Follow the steps to create the USB recovery drive.
I had significant difficulty upgrading the bios. I wasn't able to get any of the other answers here working - many seem outdated and referring to old versions of the bios updater software. The tricky part with the network upgrade is that my computer is new enough that it only has usb-c instead of ethernet. Multiple people at HP support I spoke to said I would be unable to do the network upgrade as a result because it only worked directly over ethernet, but they were misinformed. Using a Thunderbolt dock did not work, but I bought a usb-c to ethernet adapter to try the bios upgrade and finally had success!
There are ways to recover but these did not work. I prepared a USB drive with only the BIOS file on it, removed the jumper from the motherboard to initiate recovery process but to no avail. The other option would be flashing the BIOS externally. The problem is that the BIOS chip (MX25L6445E) is 8 megabytes whilst the bios file is near 10 megabytes. I was still able to flash (with a warning) using the CH341a programming tool but, again, that didn't work.
.BIN files are not provided for desktop boards because you are basically stealing the identity of another board. Those .BIN files that you do find are from someone who as copied the bios from one board, and sells the .BIN file to people, like you. Now, if you have a damaged board, and copy the bios in .BIN format, that is "acceptible". But, most that you find are clones from good boards and should not be used. Consider, for example, you will have the same MAC address as another board.
By professional I mean someone who has experience with these boards. I have been using Intel desktop boards for a VERY long time. And, Scott has been using them longer than me. I have updated the bios on desktop boards probably three times a year for the past 30 years or so. Do the math. And, I have seen a good number of guys with a chip burner make mistakes and roach/brick their boards, and try to blame it on Intel. And, you could have come this forum BEFORE you tried anything and asked questions.
Lenovo's bios belongs to lenovo and they can do what they want. Not relevent here because this is an intel bios and board. So, it is your mistake to assume they are the same. And, to help you further, dell's bios belongs to dell, asus bios belongs to asus, msi bios belongs to msi, etc., etc., etc. They may or may not have the same restrictions as Intel.
"Lenovo's bios belongs to lenovo and they can do what they want. Not relevent here because this is an intel bios and board. So, it is your mistake to assume they are the same. And, to help you further, dell's bios belongs to dell, asus bios belongs to asus, msi bios belongs to msi, etc., etc., etc. They may or may not have the same restrictions as Intel."
I found the easisest way is to make a bootable FreeDOS using Unetbootin as per the wiki above.
However, if that AWDFLASH is a Windows GUI only flasher (i.e. not DOS) then you may be out of luck. If so, check if flashrom will work with your machine. If not then you might be out of luck but sometimes some manufacturer's have a hot key setup that enables you to flash from a USB with a special hotkey during startup. You will need to google around to see of this is possible.
So I downloaded the newest update via the HP Customer Support website but when I am installing it the error "There is not enough free disk space to complete the system bios and firmware update operation. Delete some files to free disk space then retry again." pops up but I have 60 GB free space on (C:) and 900 GB on (D:).
I've also found a forum post where someone had the same error code and solved it by installing the BIOS using a bios recovery USB disc, which seems a bit risky for me since I am not a computer expert and I dont want to wreck my new notebook for the Omen Command Center.
So I chose to build my own standard password utility following the pre-boot authentication scheme. Since I want the software to be at least a little portable I want it to use as little external support as is possible. I figured that I'd be best if I somehow managed to 'hook' into the bios somewhere between the self checks and the int 19 bootstrap from within a running real mode OS.
However finding information on how to modify the bios code proved to be impossible. I've found nothing on how to achieve the before mentioned. I have only found pages describing how to flash your bios.
The BIOS is completely hardware specific - each manufacturer will have their own mechanism for updating / flashing BIOS and so trying to come up with a portable mechanism for updating a BIOS is destined for failure. For example when using Bochs you "update" the BIOS by specifying a different BIOS ROM image.
So i saw, there is no option in the ML350 Gen9 iLO web GUI, so where i have a do the RAID Controller Firmware/BIOS update?
Do i need a special tool? Do i need to upgrade in the HP storage administration GUI (which is callable from the system BIOS, it's not an application that runs on server's OS..)
Maybe there is a software tool for windows server 2016 to upgrade the controller to the most current version?
Thank you very much for your feedbacks! :-)
With best regards,
Jan
I hold down those keys, hear the desired two beeps and I can see the activity LED on the flash drive activate. Unfortunately, instead of the monitor turning on and allowing a BIOS recovery as the manual indicates, I hear five beeps, followed shortly after by 3 beeps. I grabbed the latest BIOS from their site (x9scm2.508.zip) and extracted it to my flash drive and renamed it to SUPER.ROM. Their instructions are not clear if any ROM can serve as the SUPER.ROM file, or if I need a special SUPER.ROM file to initiate the recovery at which time I can supply a known good ROM.
The Flash Memory Writer utility can not suitable for all ASRock motherboards. Please use the Flash utility which is included in each BIOS file to update its BIOS. Also ASRock motherboard MUST use ASRock's Flash utility to update BIOS, those uncertified BIOS flashing tools will cause motherboard damage.
If you encounter problems while updating the new BIOS, DO NOT turn off your system since this corrupt BIOS might cause your system failed to boot up. Just repeat the process, and if the problem still persists, update the original BIOS file. If the Flash Memory Writer utility was not able to successfully update a complete BIOS file, your system may not be able to boot up. If this happens, your system will need service. 589ccfa754
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