Chino wrote:
Please explain in detail what you saw.
While you were in the EZ Flash Utility, did you see the progress bar at the bottom? Did it finish and tell you that the system would restart? After the restart did you see a black screen with white text stating that iROG is updating or something along those lines?
Yes to your first two questions. I was distracted and didn't watch everything. When I looked back, I saw the System appear to turn off and restart at least 3 separate times. Twice it said the same thing that it was updating the BIOS please don't power off or something to the effect. Seeing that occur twice in sequence, I was sweating that something was failing. The third time the message changed to updating the ME firmware?? My memory is vague as to exact wording.
The second time, using the BIOS flashback button on the rear I/O panel from a powered off system, I first had to figure out the correct USB port for the flash drive. My eyes aren't great and I needed a flashlight to see the lettering denoting the flashback USB port. I decided to check my manual before proceeding which confused things further because page 2-12 has the wrong USB port labeled for flashback. Page 2-13 specifies the same USB as marked on the rear I/O so I decided to go with that one. I depressed the flashback button for a few seconds until it started blinking them watched the USB stick. It has an LED that indicates activity. I saw the LED blinking so I knew the USB was being read. The Flashback procedure was much faster than the BIOS Flashback Utility.
I have also noticed that the BIOS has been taking a lot of time to start up. I have Windows 10 installed on a 1TB Samsung 850 EVO. Windows boots in seconds yet the BIOS takes as much time as if it is loading from a slow HDD.
/edit to add: I will add that I don't update the BIOS unless I have a specific reason because of the inherent risk. I don't believe in fixing something that isn't broken. The fact is that I don't KNOW that I need this update. It in fact is an experiment. I am having an error attempting to play a game - SPORE.
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?81375-Maximus-VIII-Gene-This-Program-Cannot-Be-Executed-Err... I know you said that you didn't believe that a BIOS could block a game but I have done enough research on Google that this error is occurs in Windows 10 on both Asus and Gigabyte Skylake motherboards and that both Asus and Gigabyte updated some of their BIOS's to address the error. The only other option is for the author of the game - EA - to issue a patch which is highly unlikely in the case of SPORE. There are threads on the EA forums in which Crysis 3 actually got a patch for this issue and there was also talk about how Overclockers.net was not able to benchmark Crysis 3 on Skylake motherboards when they first came out.
