I had to assemble a PC with this Z490-F Gaming motherboard and an i7-1700K CPU. Upon the first boot, the CPU LED was red and flashing. I realized that I needed to update the BIOS. I didn't read the ASUS notice that said, "Before BIOS update, please download Intel ME update tool from ASUS support site, and update ME firmware to Version 14.1.53.1649V1.1 to ensure optimized system settings." I updated the BIOS without doing this, and everything seemed fine until the system performed an Intel ME update and shut down permanently. My attempts to reflash it were unsuccessful. Searching online, I found several people who had the same issue, and some of them resolved it with a ch341a.
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Re: z490-f gaming bricked after bios update
I had to assemble a PC with this Z490-F Gaming motherboard and an i7-1700K CPU. Upon the first boot, the CPU LED was red and flashing. I understood that I needed to update the BIOS, and I performed the update using the USB flashback method. I didn't read the ASUS notice, which said, "Before BIOS update, please download Intel ME update tool from ASUS support site, and update ME firmware to Version 14.1.53.1649V1.1 to ensure optimized system settings." I updated the BIOS, and everything seemed fine until the system executed an Intel ME update and shut down permanently. My attempts to reflash it were unsuccessful. Searching online, I found several people who had the same issue, and some of them resolved it with ch341a. -
Re: z490-f gaming bricked after bios update
"Can any of you unpack the ME region from the ASUS website file?"
The other issue is identifying the correct chip. It should be one 128 and one 64, and the corrupted one is the 64."Comment
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Re: z490-f gaming bricked after bios update
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Re: z490-f gaming bricked after bios update
"It would seem that the one under the heat sink is the 25b64."Comment
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z490-f gaming request extract fd from capsule
I have this bricked card, and I need to extract the FD file to write to the small 64 MB flash, the card got bricked during an update by IntelComment
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Re: z490-f gaming request extract fd from capsule
File: ROG-STRIX-Z490-F-GAMING-ASUS-2701.CAP ,delete offsets 0-FFF with a hex editor, or alternatively use UEFITool to remove the CAP header
Download UEFITool https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool..._A59_win32.zip
Open the bios with UEFITool and choose "Action" -> "Capsule" -> "Extract body"
Save as *.rom or *.bin
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Hi!
Went dumpster-diving and found a bricked Lenovo P14S in trash, few weeks earlier. Symptoms - no screen, no POST, no beep, just keyboard LEDs flashing on powerup. Mute button+LED was responding though, and the display self-test was still working (via the key combo Ctrl+Fn+Power held for some seconds, see the Service manual).
Incidentally, Windows 11 have recently started auto-flashing computer BIOS in our region. Even more suspiciously, Lenovo has released a BIOS update just few days before the PC was trashed. About a week later, the BIOS update image has been oficially marked...04-14-2025, 01:56 PM -
I have a Dell Precision T1650 MT workstation (of the following spec.) that was bricked yesterday when attempting to update the BIOS from A27 to A28 per:
- https://www.dell.com/support/home/en...-t1650/drivers > Dell Precision T1650 System BIOS
- Dell Precision T1650 mid tower Workstation
- Xeon E3-1225 V2
- 32Gb PC3-12800E RAM
- 4Tb SATA HDD
- motherboard: Dell part: 0C3YXR CN-0C3YXR-72200-39C-01GR-A02
I see now that others have experienced like issues e.g.:
- https://www.dell.com/community/Prec... -
Hi everyone,
I have been doing hardware repair as a hobby for some years now and recently decided to learn about repairing laptops as a fun challenge.
I managed to get my hands on a "HP Pavilion Gaming 15-ec2523nd" notebook that only shows a white power LED and doesnt respond to anything.
After initial testing I concluded the bios seems to be corrupted since all voltages are normal and there are no shorts. HP has a feature for a bios restore from USB with winkey+B for this model. This did not work.
I have desoldered the bios chip (GigaDevice... -
Hi, I hope some one has some advice for me. I searched the forums but didn't see anything relevant. I acquired two identical Dell 9010 Mid Tower computers from a business office upgrade (they were going to throw them out). Both of them have the same motherboard (00F82W). One of them works flawlessly. The other one had a corrupted BIOS. I tried flashing numerous main BIOS and EC files from the internet, but none of them worked. I decided to copy the main BIOS and EC from the working 9010 computer and successfully flashed the corrupted BIOS. This got the computer able to boot again and run norm...04-23-2025, 04:30 PM -
Hello all! New here, trying to fix a Lenovo Flex 5 14ITL05 laptop.
TL;DR: How do you connect a programmer to a "leg-less" SPI Flash chip? Model: Winbond W25R256JVEIQ on a board with part number 5B21B33119.
Attached are photographs of the board for context. One is of the SPI chip close-up, the other is of the full board with the chip highlighted.
I have a Lenovo Flex 5 14-ITL05 with the following symptoms following a BIOS update:- Black screen / no display
- Caps lock indicator stuck ON
- Power LED blinking
- FN Lock key on at boot, but can be toggled
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