Gigabyte @bios software stuck while updating Z270 gaming K3 BIOS

Yusblind

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I decided to update my motherboard's BIOS today. Since it is a Gigabyte Z270 Gaming K3 I thought it wise to use the software provided specifically for that purpose, @bios.
I started it up, chose "update from server", picked a server, selected the model (the only one that showed up in the list), made a backup of the current BIOS and started the update.

It seemed to be going well until the screen saying:
"Please wait... Reboot automatically after 10 seconds."
It has been stuck on this screen for nearly 20 minutes now.

Even though it seems I can still use my computer without problems for now, I'm too scared to do anything. Do I manually restart the computer? Do I kill the program with task manager? Do I do something else?
 
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Seanie280672

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sooner or later you are going to have to restart, but as Calvin7 says, never use windows based apps to update the bios, they are extremely unreliable, however, as you downloaded the bios from a server then no unzipping was required etc, your motherboard, being a gigabyte should have dual bios, so if you have buggered the main bios up, it should recover itself.

In future, the bios itself has a built in flashing tool called Q-Flash, download the bios from your motherboard website, unzip it, and put on a FAT32 formatted USB stick, just the bios file on its own, nothing else on it, boot to the bios and in the save and exit menu, load optimized defaults, then reboot back to the bios, everything is at stock settings now, then enter Q-Flash and select the bios file, then flash away, dont touch anything until the computer reboots, some parts of the update are done whilst the computer is posting.
 
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Yusblind

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NOW I know that @BIOS is not a good option. That doesn't get me out of this pickle though.

No, I did not know that I need to run an exe. As I said, I chose to update from a server. I didn't manually choose a file on my hard drive to update from.
Looking at my BIOS version right now. It seems to be updated (went from F3 to F5) but I'm still scared to restart my PC manually.
 

Yusblind

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Thank you for all the information. I had forgotten about DualBIOS. Apparently, the update went well except for the computer not rebooting automatically. I restarted manually and things are looking fine so far.