Asus bios update stuck

[Joe London]

I was looking around the bios for my asus z170a motherboard, as you do, and I saw an ez flash utility to download and flash the bios from the internet. I was psyched bc I’ve literally never updated my bios in the last 3-4 years and this seemed like an easy way to do it. I pressed ‘download’ and now it’s stuck. The mouse won’t move and the keyboard does nothing. The screen says ‘downloading, please wait’. I have gigabit internet so it shouldn’t take this long, I know that much. Is it safe to restart my computer or will that completely fuck it? Thanks in advance 

[Master Disaster]

It SHOULD be fine to reboot since it doesn't seem to have actually started the flash however its still a dangerous game, if you choose to do it you do so at your own risk.

 

That said, its not like you have any other option.

[Action_Johnson]

I agree, what choice do you have at this point? If it doesn't work, you can always load up a BIOS onto an external disk of some sort, plug that in, and update through that. 

 

I also agree that BIOS updates with ASUS boards really sucks. I was loyal to Asus since my A7N8X days, but I gotta say I like how MSI does their BIOS. I hear ASRock's is pretty decent too.