Question PC stuck in possible bios update?

[JoSTAR]

Windows 10 64-bit
Ryzen 3700X CPU
ASUS X570 Crosshair VIII Hero Motherboard
32GB DDR4 G. Skill Trident Z Ram
RTX 3080 Ti
Western Digital Blue SN500 NVMe 500GB (OS)
1TB Samsung Evo 860 SSD
Seasonic GX-1000W Prime Gold PSU


Hey guys so I was just about to hop on the PC when I noticed the PC literally forced a BIOS update as I booted up. Not even authorized by me, I thought well whatever let it do it. I've let it sit for about 2 hours now and it still hasn't done anything. Nothing showing on the debug LED but the ram RGB and motherboard RGB are still on and working, no fans are on however. It did say not to shutdown or restart while doing the so-called BIOS update but I didn't even authorize it that in the first place; have not touched it since. I tried troubleshooting to see but seems like it could be possible a windows update might've forced it. Not sure if there was a recent windows update that I remember from the past few days but that's all I got for now. A bit worried about restarting or turning it off but do these typically take these long to update? I haven't actually done any updates since about 2020 so don't know why this would happen out of the blue. Rig was running perfectly fine the last few days too. Thanks for hearing me out!

 

[helpstar]

typical update time of a BIOS would be like 2 minutes.
reset the system or power off, boot again

if it doesn´t power on, use usb flashback to update the BIOS manually

[Motherboard] How to use USB BIOS FlashBack™? | Official Support | ASUS Global

 

[CountMike]

Windows 10 64-bit
Ryzen 3700X CPU
ASUS X570 Crosshair VIII Hero Motherboard
32GB DDR4 G. Skill Trident Z Ram
RTX 3080 Ti
Western Digital Blue SN500 NVMe 500GB (OS)
1TB Samsung Evo 860 SSD
Seasonic GX-1000W Prime Gold PSU


Hey guys so I was just about to hop on the PC when I noticed the PC literally forced a BIOS update as I booted up. Not even authorized by me, I thought well whatever let it do it. I've let it sit for about 2 hours now and it still hasn't done anything. Nothing showing on the debug LED but the ram RGB and motherboard RGB are still on and working, no fans are on however. It did say not to shutdown or restart while doing the so-called BIOS update but I didn't even authorize it that in the first place; have not touched it since. I tried troubleshooting to see but seems like it could be possible a windows update might've forced it. Not sure if there was a recent windows update that I remember from the past few days but that's all I got for now. A bit worried about restarting or turning it off but do these typically take these long to update? I haven't actually done any updates since about 2020 so don't know why this would happen out of the blue. Rig was running perfectly fine the last few days too. Thanks for hearing me out!

Windows do not update BIOS even if you wanted it to.
Asus AI suite has utility to download and update BIOS though but I never heard that it would do automatically and without confirmation.
Some other driver installers also may have BIOS update option.