When I was testing the EVGA Z690 DARK KINGPIN on LN2 the other day I faced some surprising BIOS issue after some time. The middle BIOS got corrupted, at first it was just giving weird debug codes like F0 or dB, but now it doesn't even turn on anymore at all. So nothing happens when I press the power button.

On newest Intel platforms you can not, due to Intel ME just flash the broken BIOS that easily by switching to backup BIOS. So you need to use BIOS flashback like this or an external BIOS flashing tool. Most of the high-end motherboards from different vendors do have this kind of solution available.

On EVGA the process can be quite tricky as the motherboards are very picky about the USB you wish to use. I have had a lot of trouble with very new USB 3.0 sticks as they often just give E1, E2 or E4 debug code, even when formatted to fat32. E1 usually means USB not recognized. Generally, very old USB2.0 sticks have been most solid for me and they generally work fine.

You need to format the usb stick properly to FAT32 and place only the BIOS file at the root of the stick and name it accordingly. If you run Z690 DARK KINGPIN, you need to name the BIOS file as EVGAE699.bin, for Z590 DARK it should be EVGAE599.bin and EVGAE399.bin for Z390 DARK but you need to double check that first.

The process does take a while and the system will turn on during this process. It should take around 7 minutes and you don't need CPU or memory installed during this process.

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