Funny thing happened recently: a friend's laptop was having problems, and even after a complete wipe of the OS (Windows in this case) it would keep displaying the "installing drivers" windows for a USB drive even after said device was successfully recognised.
Since this problem persisted between complete OS wipes, and having the exact same laptop, I decided to perform an upgrade to the latest BIOS, having performed this procedure two times already on my system (Asus K52Jc, btw).
Well, turns out: if performing a bios upgrade with the built-in utility EZ Flash with the new bios file stored on an NTFS partition, the upgrade might appear to proceed smoothly, while infact mercilessly bricking your motherboard. :dry: