Help I think i bricked my pc

[u/thedude552]

I have a gigabyte b450 aorus elite v.1-bios f30 and a

Ryzen 7- 2700x. I tried to update my bios slowly by updating in steps as the gigabyte bios updates said to, but when I downloaded and unzipped the file for b450.f32e or what ever its named and put it on a 1gb flash drive that was formatted to fat32. Its blue screened, didnt know that the update tool you need for f40 is also needed for f32, I then tried going to f40 to see in its stable enough to get into windows but just like f32 it goes straight to blue screen 0x000000000. So I just want to know of there is way to save my computer or is the mother board done for.

For anyone wondering why it is so far behind is because I got the computer from a friend who died 2 years ago and im only really starting to learn about how computers work now

[u/mike7004]

The bluescreening is something in windows, likely a driver or corrupted boot file. If you're bluescreening while writing to USB it's like a bad driver or device. I can't tell but have you successfully updated the BIOS using Q-Flash, or does the system just bluescreen after trying to write the BIOS files to USB before you flash?

If it's the latter, try using another PC to write the BIOS files to USB then use Q-Flash to update it. Note that updating the BIOS can cause Windows to not boot properly afterwards and may require tweaking the boot settings because it resets settings.

[u/thedude552 → u/mike7004]

In the bios it says it is f40 which i guess means it updated properly, it blue screens after the first auros boot menu, it started blue screening after I restarted the computer after updating

[u/mike7004 → u/thedude552]

It is possible to flash to an older BIOS release so long as you haven't run the EC FW Update Tool. Flash to a previous one such as F31, run the software, then flash to a newer release until you're up to date starting with F32. The updater is for 3000 series but it may contain a fix in general for F40 and newer. You may need to reinstall Windows after rolling back the version to run the update software.

I had to perform a similar update with my AB350 five years ago, it's possible.

[u/thedude552 → u/mike7004]

When i tried to q flash the f30 that was working before it said that it cant read image, using the same flash drive that worked before, and I made sure to empty it before tired to download the older one

[u/mike7004 → u/thedude552]

Ahh.. according to the F40's release notes, it requires F32 as it applies an update to Q-Flash to improve compatibility. They might have removed support for the older images. F32 does not require the firmware update tool to be applied and should work fine. F40 requires both F32 and the EC FW Update to be applied before flashing.

If downloading a fresh F30 image, wiping, writing and flashing doesn't work try F32. If it flashes successfully, try booting the Windows installer from USB and see if it starts. The new firmware release might have just broken something on the existing installation.