Froggy Gremlin said:Now that many motherboards are coming out with a back up bios, many people are asking about how to flash the failed bios. (BIOS A or B)
All you need to do is download the bios you want to flash, then using a fat32 formated usb stick, run the forum bios flashing tool.
>>Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<<
Do not begin this process unless your computer is 100% stable! Many bios failures are due to faulty ram etc, if you corrupt your "good" bios the board is dead!
1.) Remove any overclock you have.
2.) Boot using the working bios, with the memory stick inserted into the usb port.
3.) As soon as the flashing tool screen comes up and you need to input, reach down and switch to the nonworking bios. (DO NOT SWITCH FROM BIOS A TO B UNTIL THE FLASHING TOOL HAS LOADED)
4.) Proceed with FLASH.
I don't see why this method is failing to work.
The parts missing in this tutorial may be the disable of all boot devices after the reboot after the files are loaded on the USB stick, & the USB stick may need a geometry reset using the flash tool's 'Fix My USB Key' feature prior to the loading of the files. Have nothing but the USB Key stick as the 'only' boot device for the flash. After a flash, remove the PSU power cord, remove the battery for awhile, clear CMOS, reset boot order etc., that should do it.
I tried doing this method several times....the update completes and on reboot it goes back into cold boot looping on and off on and off. I don't know what else to do to fix this.
This is what I did.
I created the MSI flashtool setup on my USB fat 32 stick
Followed the tool setup everything was okay.
I rebooted my PC and it boot from my memory stick into the DOS setup
I physically switched my bios chip to the one that is not working
I selected the bios update
Update complete 100%
PC rebooted, bios is STILL broken and bootloops.
Help....I don't know what else to do.