Updated my bios, now giving F2/F9 codes

[ndelaney7]

I have an ASRock Fatal1ty Gaming X motherboard with a Ryzen 1700X processor, 2x8GB G.Skill Trident Z, and a Corsair M500 M.2 SSD. I was looking into overclocking my Ram a bit since it's been underwhelming and decided I should make sure my BIOS was up to date. I realized I was still running 1.00. Using the Instant flash in the BIOS to update I updated successfully to 3.00, 3.10, 3.20, 3.40, and then I tried to update to 3.50 so that I could get to the latest. Unfortunately it said it was successful, then upon it restarting it never booted up. No post, no beeps, and the Dr. Debug flashes F2 - F9 - F2 - F9 and then holds at F9. At a complete loss here, the manual and Codes are of no help.

So far I have tried clearing CMOS both with the jumper and by pulling the battery, disconnecting everything except the CPU, RAM, and SSD, and clearing the CMOS again. Then I saw on some forums about loading a USB formatted to FAT32 and loading the BIOS on it to try to get it. I tried every instant flash bios file from 1.00 to 3.50 to no avail.

I'm afraid my mobo bricked. Any suggestions?

 

[DRagor]

3.50 is only a bridge BIOS necessary when updating to 4.50. So what you should do is to try flashing it again with 4.50 version this time.

But it beyond my comprehension why you were doing those updates at all, especially one by one. You should update to 3.40 in one step and then stop.

 

[captaincharisma]

every BIOAS version has all the fixes of of previous BIOS you only need to flash with the latest BIOS once. if you can get back into the BIOS flash with the latest if not then check to see if your mobo has a BIOS recovery where you do not need to get into it

 

[ndelaney7]

3.50 is only a bridge BIOS necessary when updating to 4.50. So what you should do is to try flashing it again with 4.50 version this time.

But it beyond my comprehension why you were doing those updates at all, especially one by one. You should update to 3.40 in one step and then stop.

I had to update at least to the 3.00 first, and previously had found doing incremental updates have given fewer problems. So 3.0 to 3.5 to 4.5 was the goal so that I could upgrade to the next gen Ryzen when it comes out in a couple months. Figured couldn't hurt to update now, but I was obviously wrong. Thanks for the suggestion though, unfortunately still the same problem

 

[DRagor]

All I could find about this F9 code points out towards RAM problems - like at 3.50 suddenly your RAM is no longer supported, or previous settings no longer work (despite resetting CMOS)? Anyway, try starting the board without RAM at all, or if you can, use different sticks.
However, the board does not have dual BIOS, so if it was indeed failed BIOS update (and it seems so), you are out of options.