BIOS update blues

I recently wanted to upgrade the BIOS on one of my PCs and I used the ASUS BIOS update Windows utility. 

I downloaded the latest BIOS and update tool from the ASUS Website then launched the update process.  After a few seconds, the tool reported an error so I tried to flash the previous BIOS version (that I saved earlier) but with the same result.  I ended up bricking the motherboard.  I then went to my local MicroBytes store and the first question the technician asked me was if I did the update from Windows.  Looks like it's very common problem using the ASUS Windows tool.  Yeah, great!