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BIOS Auto Updating

memetic
Level 7

‎04-03-2016 09:38 AM - last edited on ‎03-06-2024 02:32 AM by Community Admin

Two times this has happened to me where I turn my computer on and before booting to windows the BIOS says it is updating and don't restart or turn off my computer.

What is this?

I unplugged my two external drives and made sure there were no usb pendrives in. But it still says it is updating.

I finally let it go to see what would happen and finally windows started.

Again, what the hell is this?
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memetic
Level 7

‎04-03-2016 12:55 PM

No one ever had this happen?
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Qwinn
Level 11
In response to memetic

‎04-03-2016 04:18 PM

memetic wrote:
No one ever had this happen?


Not for me. Which BIOS version did you start with, and what BIOS do you have now?

Also, if you installed AI Suite, one of the components is called EZ Update. I don't have it, but it sounds like that's it's function.
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drop4205
Level 12

‎04-03-2016 04:23 PM

id reload bios on usb stick remame it, power down clear cmos go into bios a reset defaults then go to ez flash in bios and try to rerun the bios again to see what happens.
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Avenger411
Level 10

‎04-03-2016 04:45 PM

Hey,

Happened when i updated bios a couple of times. Also happenes when i changed from 16gb to 32gb (wtf). But i always let it do it's thing and nothing bad happened. Never happened on a normal boot/reboot.

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memetic
Level 7

‎04-04-2016 05:58 AM

It just makes me very suspicious because I already got hacked once in a very sophisticated way.

I'm not taking chances with this, I'm going to wipe everything and start from scratch.

Thanks guys.
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Chino
Level 15

‎04-04-2016 09:10 AM

If you're not using the external drives, try to disconnect them from your system. Connect them why you need to. I remember a few cases of external hard drives causing boot problems. In one of the cases, it was triggering the BIOS update when there wasn't any updating going on at all.

Also if you have AI Suite installed, turn off the automatic updates.
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memetic
Level 7

‎04-04-2016 09:20 AM

It just makes me very suspicious because I already got hacked once a couple months ago.

I'm not taking chances with this, I'm going to wipe everything and start from scratch.

Thanks guys.
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memetic
Level 7

‎04-04-2016 09:50 AM

Does anyone know of a way to protect the bootloader from being tampered with. I've searched but haven't found any options.
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Qwinn
Level 11

‎04-04-2016 02:13 PM

"Does anyone know of a way to protect the bootloader from being tampered with. I've searched but haven't found any options. "

Isn't that what UEFI and Secure Boot are supposed to do? You get it by disabling CSM.
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