This person on reddit had a BIOS that took 4 hours to update… then 10… then 24… then 36, so they started a livestream for people to watch. Now it’s been over 100 and it’s still not done!
They even started a fundraiser and got more than enough for a new motherboard when (possibly if) it gives up and breaks.

I feel like this is going to be an inside joke for a while on the PCMR sub lol

Here’s the thread with more information Here is the thread with a FAQ https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1jcmm86/100_hours_of_updating_my_bios/
And i’ll just copy and paste it for those who don’t wanna, (but it might be out of date):

[Reddit post text]

100 hours of updating my BIOS…

well, this is getting absurd.

For those who haven’t heard, I started updating my BIOS about 4 days ago now, and we’re still going up to now

I figure I might as well put some commonly asked questions here:

-dual BIOS? it’s a BioStar A320MH… No lol

-BIOS flashback? see previous

-RMA? sadly I got this and the 1200 attached to it used, and they’re both from 2018. Not gonna happen

-what USB? I actually did this by just selecting the file on my boot SSD in the BIOS update utility. Could be what caused it, IDK

-UPS? nope, just good ol’ (un)reliable Philippines electricity!

-why even update? 2018 BIOS… I read on the page that there were some stability fixes on the newer BIOS versions and thought why not? Definitely regretting it now…

-what does purple even mean? pretty sure it’s just empty space created from erasing the old BIOS

-stream when? now!: https://www.youtube.com/live/p7TP3YCpUPk

-PC specs? Ryzen 3 1200, GTX 1660. 4GB 2400MHZ, Gigabyte P650B, Transcend 128GB SSD and of course BioStar A320MH rev 6.0

-is this your main PC? thankfully no, it’s just a PC I built to put in my dorm.

-main PC specs? Ryzen 5 8400F, RTX 4060, 16GB 5200MHZ (RAM is expensive here okay…) MSI A650BN, Transcend 220S 2TB SSD and Gigabyte B650M K

-did you buy a BIOS programmer yet? yup! it arrives next week

thank you to everyone who’s followed me on this so far, this has gotten so out of hand lol. And yes, I saw Mutahar’s video.

Update

the computer went black and is no longer working 🥲
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1jd8yqo/welp_were_done_here/

Text of update post

As of 2:14 PM Philippine Standard Time, my monitor lost signal from the PC and I returned to it completely unresponsive to any troubleshooting. Thanks again to everyone who followed me on this and especially to those who donated, I really do appreciate it.

I won’t be making another post on this sub anymore about this stuff (though my BIOS programmer is yet to arrive, I’ll probably announce something for that outside of here,) so to those who have grown tired of me, this is probably the last you’re gonna see of me. To those that were hoping the board would live, I’m sorry for the disappointment. Again, thank you everyone who got involved on this, bye for now!