@NewFX - It's OK, don't be too worried about it You're welcome, glad to hear all is fixed now and windows still activated too!

Please see my edits above, especially the last bit I edited in later and maybe you missed, thanks

I searched "How to flash bios with fptw64" used the "-f" command from here "https://community.hwbot.org/topic/160585-howto-flash-older-bios-on-asus-z170/". I wanted to try out flashing the bios from windows, i saved your instructions above thanks for that. Everything seems to be working fine. Thank you.

OK, thanks, I thought maybe you saw it here on a guide rather than a general thread here or elsewhere.
Anywhere FPT flashing is discussed, especially in a guide, it needs to be stated to users in most instances you should never flash stock BIOS with FPT or you'll loose board specifics or worse brick the system if BIOS is wrong size (ie in a Asus Capsule), or does not contain all regions and a BIOS region only flag is not used etc.

Good all is still working properly, hopefully all will be fine for your board!