Well first of all: Good luck with that 
Hmm sounds like the actual BIOS update went bad, which usually shouldnt happen. Not sure whether flashing from win7 is a good idea but maybe you can kind of initialize a boot to flash from there. If all fails you - or someone who does this on a regular basis - can still burn a new rom (like this selfmade one here http://www.eeweb.com/project/circuit_projects/pic-and-eeprom-programmer ) with a working BIOS.
And yeah, I stopped buying hardware online a couple of years back when I had a CD Burner that "should be working" according to the support, but it for the hell of it wouldnt with my PC. It took me almost half a year to get my money back, because they insisted that they checked it and everything was fine, while when I finally got it back from the lab it still wouldnt work. Ofc they though it was a problem on my end and maybe it even was, but if its not working with the hardware I have I cant just replace my whole PC just to make one part work.
Hmm sounds like the actual BIOS update went bad, which usually shouldnt happen. Not sure whether flashing from win7 is a good idea but maybe you can kind of initialize a boot to flash from there. If all fails you - or someone who does this on a regular basis - can still burn a new rom (like this selfmade one here http://www.eeweb.com/project/circuit_projects/pic-and-eeprom-programmer ) with a working BIOS.
And yeah, I stopped buying hardware online a couple of years back when I had a CD Burner that "should be working" according to the support, but it for the hell of it wouldnt with my PC. It took me almost half a year to get my money back, because they insisted that they checked it and everything was fine, while when I finally got it back from the lab it still wouldnt work. Ofc they though it was a problem on my end and maybe it even was, but if its not working with the hardware I have I cant just replace my whole PC just to make one part work.