BIOS FLASH

(Background) To clarify I am a technician... It is my day job to build, repair, upgrade and troubleshoot computers Working on computers puts food on my table and pays my rent. I have access to testing equipment, and extra hardware. Computers have been a hobby for me for 14 Years, and I have...

Hi. A friend bought some new parts to upgrade and I went over to help him build the machine: Motherboard - Asrock A320M Pro4 (Old) CPU Ryzen 5 1500x --> Ryzen 7 5800x (Old) PSU Fortron 500W --> Seasonic 750W 80+ Gold Ram - 2x8 Adata sticks, which are 2400 and 2666 MHz and in the old...

Hello I would like to ask if any of you guys know how to bypass that error on AMD cards. I tried to flash bios from 6800M to 6700XT since its exactly same model of card but Subsystem ID is different and it makes not possible to flash bios. I know that one guy did bypass on nvidia cards with...

I recent upgraded to a 5800x3d from a 9600k since i could reuse my ram from my old system, i got a b550 board to go with it. Knowing i needed to flash the bios, i have tried 5-6 usb sticks but have had no luck. It flashes for a few seconds and then goes dark, it never gets to the fast flashing...

Hi, I'm having trouble with an MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk where the EZ Debug LED lights up solid red on the DRAM. The RGB lights up and the fans begin to spin, but there is no display output. I have validated that the CPU, RAM, and PSU work perfectly on another motherboard, and there are no visible...

I am building a new system around 13700k. I received the CPU, motherboard and RAM but still waiting for the cooler (will be a few days). Can I already hook up my PSU with the motherboard to do the required BIOS flash for the Raptor Lake CPU? can I do that without the processor installed? just...

Hey all, Today I was going to build a new PC. However I needed to update the BIOS so I can use my 5800x. However, while it was updating my dog jumped on the power cord and it detached the cable from the PSU. I immediately put back the USB drive and pressed the flash bios button. Did I brick my...

Hi everyone, I recently upgraded my CPU, everything worked great until I decided to flash my GPU bios to one which supports resizable bar (from official PALIT website). Up to that point I had my GPU running at around 67 degrees maximum in games like Borderlands 3 (with undervolt - 1935@0.9V)...

I just got a 3080 that I pulled from an HP Omen computer and just began to water-cool it with dual 360 radiators, after finishing the build I went to go and overclock the 3080 and found that the power limit was locked to the stock 320w and there is no boost to 370w like the reference card and...

I have a Sapphire R7 360 and I’m trying to squeeze every last bit of performance out of it since GPUs are unreasonably priced. I already overclocked it at its limits and wanted to ask if it would be possible to unlock its shader units via flashing onto it an R7 360 896SP bios (a variant with all...

Hi ,I was thinking of cross flashing my Zotac GTX 1650 Super with the Bios of Asus GTX 1650 Super 4 GB (TUF Gaming OC) with has a Power Limit: 120.0 W as opposed to the Zotac which has a Power Limit: 100.0 W Both use 6 pin and have 1x DVI-D 1x DisplayPort 1x HDMI You can see the links for...

i downloaded the bios for my msi mag b5550 tomohawk and named it MSI.Rom and put it in the Flash usb port pressed the Boutun asnd waitedbut it already took 3h. What should i do?

Edit* Connected everything to try and update BIOS from within bios itself and now PC won’t post. Lol. Just got home with the b450 tomahawk max. I’m trying to flash the BIOS with the newest update to run my Ryzen 5 5600x. I followed every instruction to a T when downloading the update file to the...

Hi, I have bought a used RX 470 which shows no signal when drivers are installed. Now, I have flashed a BIOS proper enough, so that when I install drivers, it does not show no signal, but now shows a Code 43 error. I have tried to reach out to Sapphire tech support, to no avail. What should I do...

So for a while now, the wifi on my T440s would constantly disconnect and when it is connected it's slow as hell compared to my phone. That's why I'm planning to upgrade my wifi card. I got a suggestion that I upgrade to an intel wifi 6 ax200, but all vendors say it doesn't support my laptop...

Ok So I was planning on buying a Ryzen 5600x and a Asus Rog Strix B550-F when the chip was released but I was wondering if the b550 will need a bios flash and if so how will I as I don't have an older ryzen chip to get into bios (Do you need a supported CPU to get into bios???) and I was reading...

So I just got my new PC build up and running, and I decided to follow the advice of many PC experts to update the motherboard's bios. Little did I know that this was a risky process (despite numerous warning in the Gigabyte @bios software), I attempted to flash my Bios. Now, I did this, and it...

Do I need bios update on MSI B450M-A Pro Max to run ryzen 5 3600

I bought Asrock rx 5600 xt challenger edition 2 weeks ago and I asked shop that sold me what vbios was on it and they didn't know I also sent email to asrock and they didn't respond. So let's make it short as possible, it says on windows 10 under display settings that I currently have...

My MOBO is B350 Gaming Pro Carbon. I flashed my BIOS today. I flashed ir because I need support for Zen2. Previously I had BIOS from this site: https://www.msi.com/blog/the-latest-bios-for-amd-300-400-series-motherboard , which should support Zen2. But I found out that the support site of this...

Hey, soon going to be a Vega 56 Nitro+ owner here. I’m buying a used card for about $350 CAD and before I was going with something better but after realizing some people could overclock the 56 to match somewhat close to the RTX 2070, I was thinking to get this card. I also heard that people were...

Recently I bought a computer upgrade which contained 32gb of corsair 2666mhz DDR4, a Ryzen 3700x and a Gigabyte B450 Aorus elite. After putting it together and attempting to boot, no single came to the monitor and the DRAM Led was solid red. After running through the regular Ram troubleshoot...

So I was updating the bios to I think F31, using the BIOS application in the App center for the motherboard. When it requested a reboot I accepted, however, now the Aorus logo is just sitting there, and I am completely unable to enter the bios via the keyboard. Nothing is responding and it wont...

got this 1060 for free and had problems with it showing up in device manager but after uninstalling drivers it showed up and i did a bios flash and it gave some more info but not all of the info like normal and drivers can mess with the info as well when drivers are installed the boost ,mem...

Hi, I am unable to update from P4.60 to P5.70 via instant flash, i download the bios file extract it then put it on a fat32 formatted USB drive, restart the computer, enter into the bios, navigate to the instant flash section press enter, it pops up with the BIOS file for a split second then...

Hello, I’ve flashed the BIOS of my Asus G73sw laptop to enable Intel AES-IN. The flashing process was succesfull be done, but after reboot my LAN port stopped working. The LAN card also not showing in ‘Device Manager’. To resolve the problem I tried to re-installing the LAN driver with no luck...

I've been having these chargin problems for a while where the laptop would charge for a few sconds then disconnect, although the calb e was still plugged inn. I tried every fix until i was recommende i flash the BIOS, which i did. However while flashing the boot block the charger disconected...

Hello I have a Ga-990fxa-ud3 rev 4 motherboard and a fx 9590 cpu. I have 4 8gb non ecc 240 pin 1600 mhz memory sticks and am running windows 7 64 bit. Problem is when i put over 16 gb of ram in computer wont show me start up screen. all ram are the same brand and works just fine if only using 2...

Stock cooler gave me the worst cooling experience so far.. [Idle: 36C-43C, Load: 65C-76C] So, I finally decided to buy a cheap but effective aftermarket cooler. Which one should I buy? Hyper 212x or Hyper 103? *Budget is tight. My specs:- Processor: Intel Core i5 4590 Motherboard: H97M-E...

I recently updated windows 10 and ever since, every time I close my laptop lid, the computer restarts upon being awoken. But this problem isn't limited to sleep from the laptop lid, if I manually go to the power options in the start menu and hit sleep, then wake my laptop up again, it still...

Hello, I am writing here because I am out of ideas what could be wrong or what else could I do. I would appreciate any suggestions... The computer won`t boot. A red CPU LED light goes on when I push the power button. After pressing the MemOK button a red DRAM light starts flashing. The...

I've got an 8-core AMD FX processor with a stock cooler and.. it's not working for me. The fan is obnoxiously loud and many graphics-intensive games cause my PC to crash due to the CPU overheating. I'm not even overclocking. The Cooler Master 212 EVO seems to be my best budget choice for...