I understand, and I realize the risk, it's basically an all or nothing situation my reasoning being I have no use for it without the bios update, I need the bios update according to myself and others who helped me on this site for the gpu I have to work. I've tried everything else (testing psu, cpu, ram, etc making sure everything is working).
Bios update seems the only last thing I can go on, and I'm already planning on ordering another mobo in case this doesn't work out, I got nothing to lose. I got the bios from
https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=1866127 as well as another one, in case that one didn't work, from
https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/BIOS/FOXCONN/Foxconn-H61MXV-BIOS-C12F1P04.shtml .
I did try to flash the bios using a fomatted fat-32 usb with a flashtool and bios on the root of the usb and using dos commands to flash it. This is when I got the two different errors using two different programs, one being afudos and the other being fpt. I appreciate any insight as to what the next best course of action would be most reasonable, considering that I have no use for this mobo unless it works with my r9 390 graphics card.
Returning is unfortunately out of the question and selling it wouldn't be worth it as well considering how little money it's worth, in my opinion. I'm stuck with being an all or nothing kind of dude.
Question: when you said said 'booting into the bios' gui' I'm not sure what you mean. When I start bios setup all the options I have is to change boot priority, which I did change priority to usb, so my usb runs the dos and I can input the command afudos /i'bios name' /pbnc for example.
I wish my bios had an option to flash the bios using it's own tool on startup. I tried hitting f2 to start a bios utility but it didn't work. Am I missing something? I know anyone else would've quit by now, but I suppose I'm one of those people that doesn't gives up until, well, all reasonable options are exhausted.