Forum USB flashing tool!!! ✔

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Hi guys,

We the forum team have developed a new way of flashing.
You no longer need a floppy or anything, just an USB-stick.

The tool has been tested together with MSI and as far as we have done our testing, there are no problems at all.
As long as the USB-stick is FAT or FAT32 formatted!

However, flashing is always risky, so if it goes bad it's your own fault, but that goes for all flashing you do.

This tool is intended to flash MSI retail motherboards and laptops,
but if needs you can use any other machine to prepare the necessary stuffs and the USB stick there,
before move the USB stick to the msi product that you want to flash.


The way it works is simple: Download the package and download the BIOS from the MSI website that you want to flash.

The rest is straight forward.

Make sure that your board is set to be able to boot from USB.
So turn on USB Legacy Support in the BIOS.
Boot and press F11 to get the boot-popup and select your USB-device to boot.
(some boards have a different key, like K8N Master uses ESC for the boot-menu)

What ever you do, make sure you read all warnings!

The forum nor MSI is responsible if it fails for you.
Nor is this software supported by MSI technical support!


Please report problems/bugs if you find them.


currently supported OS ( 64 bit):
Windows Vista, Windows 7 (also Windows in Virtualbox under Linux!), Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10
(all kind of versions)



NOTE: If you are having problems getting your USB device to boot correctly, you may need to format it correctly as the geometry data may be incorrect. You can do that by pickup option "Fix My USB key" from the Tool or by using >>> Rufus Tool <<< tool and make it bootable with "FreeDOS"!
For future usage you can skip this step, it need to be done only once if your stick need adjustment.


This topic is for discussion of and help with the USB flash tool only. If you have a problem with your PC and need help then do not hijack this topic, please start your own new topic in the correct area of this forum!

NEW! >>> Read the comprehensive user guide here! <<<




The download links are listed below:

:lookandok:
>> tool96 <<

attached files are visible for logged-in users.

pass: 1562
 
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To get the flash tool "tool96.exe" directly, without downloading the RAR and needing to use the password "1562" and downloading winrar, you can use this direct download:

download: tool96.exe

Not everyone has winrar installed, and password protected files dont work with 7zip or other tools.

Also, thanks for the tool. I was able to flash P6N-SLI MS-7350 to bios 2.7. However for this mobo, it seems like with bios 2.7, many intel 45nm processors still won't work. https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/e5200-in-p6n-sli-board-will-not-post.123486/ . And also note, there's still no AHCI support, and sata 3 ssd/hdd will still always run at sata 1 speeds due a bug for this motherboard.
 
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Hello, I like to update my z270 sli plus (ms-7a59) from 1.80 to latest possible ( 7A59v1A ). Can I do this with Forum Tool or use some other method?
Thanks in advance.
 
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kaan03.kb said:
Hi i am new here which version of the tool should I use to downgrade B350 PC Mate bios version? Thanks for your help.
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This:
For your board use that one:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?...ell-flash-tool-v1-19-for-msi-boards-✔.343010/
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But for your 3xx chipset, it may brick it. It depends of specified BIOS to which BIOS. [gse to regular]
Can't be tell in advance, but for 3xx boards in some case the switching is not working correctly for all cases.
 
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Svet said:
This:


But for your 3xx chipset, it may brick it. It depends of specified BIOS to which BIOS. [gse to regular]
Can't be tell in advance, but for 3xx boards in some case the switching is not working correctly for all cases.
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Thanks again @Svet
I first downgrade the bios an5 version to the alq version with this tool (As @alielahirad80812a902a2 wrote on the forum) then downgrade aj0 click bios with m-flash.
 
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Hi all, I have a MSI P67A-G45 (B3) with BIOS version is 1.J. Which tool should I use to update the BIOS from 1.J to 5.4? Any guide? I found older threads on this but the links they have are broken :(
 
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Svet said:
Details about that you can find here:

However if you have no issues, no need to flash your BIOS.
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Thanks, I posted here why I was thinking of updating the BIOS:
In any case, the link for the tool is broken on that post, will it be the "tool96" mentioned on this post?
 
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i have an old MSI P67A-C43 board im need to upgrade to use a i7-3770k
got the special bios from the link:

got the tool96
prepared ther usbdrive
when i try to boot the drive i get error
could not locate target partition
im attaching a screen pic, any idea how can i flash the bios?
WhatsApp Image 2023-04-18 at 09.34.41.jpeg
 
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