Hey guys I'm very much a newbie with these sorts of things so bear with me. I have a Gigabyte B450M-DS3H V2 motherboard that was working just fine until I tried to update the bios to the latest f62d version (I would normally avoid doing this but the Gigabyte website mentioned critical vulnerabilities discovered in earlier bios versions and strongly recommended updating). The bios update using Qflash seemed to have completed successfully and showed no errors of any sort but once it restarted the PC would not boot anymore and I heard 3 long beeps (everything turns on and the fans spin up but nothing on screen and cant get to bios settings or do anything). I went through the usual troubleshooting of disconnecting everything, switching display, gpu, trying every single combination of Ram sticks and slots, tried with only one stick and even got different ram from another computer but to no avail. I either get the 3 long beeps error code or nothing at all depending on which ram slot I'm using and never anything on screen.

At that point I figured my MOBO Bios was somehow messed up during bios update so I got a ch341a programmer with the clip and have been trying to flash a working bios downloaded from the Gigabyte website. My issue is that despite trying multiple programming software (Asprogrammer, Neoprogrammer, Colibri) none of them seem to be able to detect and identify my bios chip which is the Winbond 25Q128JWSQ (picture attached). I tried manually searching for it on NeoProgrammer and the closest model I found was 25Q128JW-xM(1.8v) and after selecting it I am able to read the contents of the chip which tells me the actual physical connection is fine, but once I actually try to flash the gigabyte bios I get a bunch of errors on the verify stage and it stops right away.

It seems I'm out of my depth at this point and would really appreciate any help from more experienced folks. Thanks in advance.

PS: I also attached the dump I did of my bricked bios I did with Neoprogrammer after manually selecting 25Q128JW-xM(1.8v) although I'm still not at all confident that's the same chip.

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..... I am able to read the contents of the chip which tells me the actual physical connection is fine, but once I actually try to flash the gigabyte bios I get a bunch of errors on the verify stage and it stops right away. .....

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