There are ways to recover but these did not work. I prepared a USB drive with only the BIOS file on it, removed the jumper from the motherboard to initiate recovery process but to no avail. The other option would be flashing the BIOS externally. The problem is that the BIOS chip (MX25L6445E) is 8 megabytes whilst the bios file is near 10 megabytes. I was still able to flash (with a warning) using the CH341a programming tool but, again, that didn't work.