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    ASUS Z170-AR updated BIOS from 2202 to 3007, game over?

    I have completed another 8 or so hours of troubleshooting with no success, for anyone following. I removed the battery and shorted the CMOS 4 times, with a few hours between each attempt. I then tried 4 different USB drives formatted FAT32 and EXFAT with 3301 and 2202 on each attempt. There...
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    ASUS Z170-AR updated BIOS from 2202 to 3007, game over?

    I updated from 2202 to 3007 this morning with the EZ Update Utility. It installed, then restarted into BIOS and applied the update successfully. It then failed to boot after restart. I then reset again and the system posted in safe mode with an American Megatrends BIOS recovery screen. The only...