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@eXcalibur69420You can update your BIOS in a lot of way, but personally I think going the USB way is the easiest. You need a USB stick (preferably empty, just to make file navigating easy).
Go to https://rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-b550-f-gaming-model/helpdesk_bios , get the newest non-beta BIOS (Currently version 2006), unzip the download and copy the two files from the unzipped download into your flash drive.
Then, power off computer, turn it back on with the flash drive inserted. While its booting up, spam the "Del" key on your keyboard. This will allow you to get to your BIOS. Keep spamming it until you see the BIOS screen.
Once you are in the BIOS, head over to the "Tools" tab with either your mouse or keyboard arrows. Once you are under "Tools", you will see an option called "EZ Flash 3". Go ahead and click enter there.
A menu will pop up asking you to select your storage device. Depending on how many drives you have, this could look a little complicated. But the menu on the left will show the size of each drive in MB. Hover over who's size resembles most your flash drive, and on the right of the menu you will see all of the directories/ files in that drive. Remember how I told you to just put the downloaded files? Well, if you hover over to your flash drive, you will see the name of the file we just downloaded, and since its the only file in the drive, it has to be that one. Plus, it says "asus 2006 bios" and some other keywords.
Once you found it, select it and another window will pop up asking you confirm the install. Just make sure the date is correct for the bios update (march 2021 for version 2006) and as well as the bios version you want to update. Click confirm, and it will update your Bios within 5 minutes or so.
MAKE SURE TO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER DURING A BIOS UPDATE. Powering it off during the update, can and usually does brick your motherboard. If you don't have warranty, you would have to buy a new one.
After updates, it should say update complete, then it restarts your computer again. Before it boots into window, you may get another screen prompt saying you need to set up your BIOS, if that's the case just go into BIOS and exit it. After that, you will boot into windows with out a problem and your issue with Apex should be fixes.
If you ever get lost, or want a reference as to what I'm talking about, watch this video from the 3:00 minute mark until the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scK8AP8ZACc
Note, that this video is for a b450 motherboard, but the general steps are the same.
- 5 years ago@eXcalibur69420 Awesome man glad that you got it to work! You are ready for season 9!