Asrock z77 extreme4. Bios flash failure.

[beaudry79]

Well it clearly has the ability to recover, so I would be surprised if you couldn't get the same results. Is the drive formatted to fat 32?

Yes. did you have to rename your BIOS file to 8 characters or less.

[beaudry79]

OMG You guys are great!!! It was my fault I did a quick format not a full one. It works and was recovered. Thank you so much!!!!

[Tacho56]

Yes. did you have to rename your BIOS file to 8 characters or less.

I don't think so. At first I did only have the DOS file, both renamed to bios.exe, and another copy of it I changed to bios.dos. But this didn't work for me. That's when I threw all the other files on there as well, exactly as they extracted, and it worked.

[Tacho56]

OMG You guys are great!!! It was my fault I did a quick format not a full one. It works and was recovered. Thank you so much!!!!

No worries mate, great to see we're getting it sorted for other people who have the same problem!

[Paul_Mac]

No worries mate, great to see we're getting it sorted for other people who have the same problem!

Tacho,
When you rename the bios file I think it should be a .80 file format eg Z77ext41.80, not an exe etc. might have made it quicker.
Not to worry though, you got it done anyhow. LOL
Glad to hear all's well.
Cheers,
Mac

[cyrusfox]

YOU GUYS ROCK!

It totally worked, I lost my bios when it was updating through the internet feature from 2.70 to 2.80. The bios code was F1, to F2, then to F9 beeping the whole way. All I had to do was unzip the instant flash file on a flash drive (Z77 Extreme4(2.80)ROM.zip) and bott it back up and the recover of the UEFI was instant. Nice on ASrock on having this feature, to bad it is poorly documented(ie I could not find it anywhere!).

Thank you guys so much for sharing your knowledge!