Issues Updating B550 Boards

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   Have had multiple B550 boards as of late that refuse to update.

Downloaded the BIOS file for the respective motherboard and put onto an empty USB, plugged into motherboard and run Instant Flash from the Tools section in BIOS. The board will recognize the file, for example \B550PG41.70, procced with update, and upon completion say that the flash was successful and to press enter to restart. After the system restarts and boots into BIOS the BIOS version remains at 1.10.

I have had this issue with multiple ASRock B550 boards (Pro4, Phantom Gaming 4, multiples of both). The instructions are very straightforward and I'm not new to BIOS flashing so not quite sure what I could be missing. 

P.S. 

Have also tried different USB ports, and USB drives. 

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Bodom_ Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 11 Dec 2020 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 3	Post Options Post Reply Quote Bodom_ Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Issues Updating B550 Boards Posted: 11 Dec 2020 at 3:42am
	Have had multiple B550 boards as of late that refuse to update. Downloaded the BIOS file for the respective motherboard and put onto an empty USB, plugged into motherboard and run Instant Flash from the Tools section in BIOS. The board will recognize the file, for example \B550PG41.70, procced with update, and upon completion say that the flash was successful and to press enter to restart. After the system restarts and boots into BIOS the BIOS version remains at 1.10. I have had this issue with multiple ASRock B550 boards (Pro4, Phantom Gaming 4, multiples of both). The instructions are very straightforward and I'm not new to BIOS flashing so not quite sure what I could be missing. P.S. Have also tried different USB ports, and USB drives.

ThreeDee Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 24 Jul 2019 Location: Billings,MT Status: Offline Points: 2396	Post Options Post Reply Quote ThreeDee Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Dec 2020 at 1:39pm
	Place BIOS in the root directory of your secondary drive if you run multiple drives ..if only one, then try on your C: drive ..that's how I always do it as USB drives can be flaky... Generally a good idea to reset to defaults prior to flashing as well if you don't practice that already.
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DaVan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 12 Dec 2020 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote DaVan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Dec 2020 at 5:08pm
	I am having this exact same issue with my B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ax. I have true all firmwares above 1.10, and allso tried to reflash 1.10 and the 1.20 again without any luck. I will try to save the file to my secondary drive as recommended above.