Update BIOS Failed

[bobo]

Attempted to update it to v3.06 and got this message:
“The BIOS image to be updated is invalid for Secure Flash or onboard BIOS does not support Secure Flash.”

I then tried the v3.07 exe via windows (as opposed to the LVFS firmware I already tried in my OP)

I appear to have the same problem a few people on the main BIOS update thread:

11th Gen BIOS 3.07 + Windows 10 and (11 Alpha) driver bundle

Thank you very much for the detailed steps. From my Ubuntu partition it appears that my EFI partition is 500MB. /dev/nvme0n1p1 497M 229M 269M 47% /boot/efi However, I want to point out again that I have removed this hard drive when running the bios update from the live disk to ensure that it does not mess with my grub config. Is having too OS drive installed required for this process to succeed? Is there a way around that if so?

I checked my EFI parition. I partitioned it to 100MiB leaving 32 MiB for the BIOS update to use (which apparently is enough according to SodaStream: 11th Gen BIOS 3.07 + Windows 10 and (11 Alpha) driver bundle - #47 by SodaStream)

Since my NVMe simply has a fresh install of Arch, I will wipe it and install windows just to complete this BIOS update I need to use the motherboard as an SBC. Sucks.

I can’t be bothered to troubleshoot this further. Will report back if a windows install allows me to install the BIOS update.

UPDATE: Installing windows on my nvme ssd allowed me to flash the new BIOS firmware. Something about the firmware installer did not like my EFI partition that I had on my arch install.