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I've been experiencing problems with my computer hanging randomly, increasingly frequently, so I figured I've give a shot at updating my BIOS. I was running F3. Apart from the hangs I didn't experience any other issues.
Flashed to F8 using @BIOS, which assumingly failed because near the end it causes my computer to hang. It rebooted okay, although I forgot to set boot order up. But shortly crashed with a BSOD saying my BIOS were likely the cause. No problem, went into BIOS and used QFlash to flash over them. Booted fine.
Shortly afterwards I experienced many many BSODs, all with different 'likely' causes. So I tested my RAM. Took out one that failed the test, left the others in. Booted fine. No BSODs. Ran it for a good 3 hours and then it hung up again, while idling on my desktop.
Restarted. Figured it was just one of those odd ones that I'd get originally that caused me to flash it. So this time I started actively using my computer. Computer abruptly shuts off. Reboots after a few seconds automatically. Through the night this happened 3 times over about an hour. It's become pretty intolerable.
So I'm looking to reflash back to F3 unless anyone has some suggestions otherwise. I ordered new RAM but I'm not putting them in until I know that's the only issue left, because the one stick failing after doing a BIOS upgrade has me worried. I attempted to copy the backup BIOS over main, by holding power and reset until for a few seconds. Prompt came up saying detected corrupted BIOS, flashing over with the backup ones. Well it finished, power cycled numerous times on its own. I pop open the BIOS, still says F8.
I've been experiencing problems with my computer hanging randomly, increasingly frequently, so I figured I've give a shot at updating my BIOS. I was running F3. Apart from the hangs I didn't experience any other issues.
Flashed to F8 using @BIOS, which assumingly failed because near the end it causes my computer to hang. It rebooted okay, although I forgot to set boot order up. But shortly crashed with a BSOD saying my BIOS were likely the cause. No problem, went into BIOS and used QFlash to flash over them. Booted fine.
Shortly afterwards I experienced many many BSODs, all with different 'likely' causes. So I tested my RAM. Took out one that failed the test, left the others in. Booted fine. No BSODs. Ran it for a good 3 hours and then it hung up again, while idling on my desktop.
Restarted. Figured it was just one of those odd ones that I'd get originally that caused me to flash it. So this time I started actively using my computer. Computer abruptly shuts off. Reboots after a few seconds automatically. Through the night this happened 3 times over about an hour. It's become pretty intolerable.
So I'm looking to reflash back to F3 unless anyone has some suggestions otherwise. I ordered new RAM but I'm not putting them in until I know that's the only issue left, because the one stick failing after doing a BIOS upgrade has me worried. I attempted to copy the backup BIOS over main, by holding power and reset until for a few seconds. Prompt came up saying detected corrupted BIOS, flashing over with the backup ones. Well it finished, power cycled numerous times on its own. I pop open the BIOS, still says F8.
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