failed bios flash

[chep]

motherboard: MSI 970A-G43

I tried to update my bios because I had a problem where it says that not all my ram are usable. I used the M-flash utility from MSI and then it says to restart, which I did. But it did not boot up again and I turn off the system. Which I later find out you shouldn't do. So now it doesn't boot at all. How do I reflash bios or put in a new bios. I have the disk that they give when you get the motherboard. I have tried resetting CMOS.

 

[Seanie280672]

motherboard: MSI 970A-G43

I tried to update my bios because I had a problem where it says that not all my ram are usable. I used the M-flash utility from MSI and then it says to restart, which I did. But it did not boot up again and I turn off the system. Which I later find out you shouldn't do. So now it doesn't boot at all. How do I reflash bios or put in a new bios. I have the disk that they give when you get the motherboard. I have tried resetting CMOS.

You cant, you've killed the board, the bios chip is soldered to the motherboard on these boards.

Try a couple of things first, try with 1 stick of ram, also try and clear the cmos with the jumper on the motherboard.

 

[chep]

motherboard: MSI 970A-G43

I tried to update my bios because I had a problem where it says that not all my ram are usable. I used the M-flash utility from MSI and then it says to restart, which I did. But it did not boot up again and I turn off the system. Which I later find out you shouldn't do. So now it doesn't boot at all. How do I reflash bios or put in a new bios. I have the disk that they give when you get the motherboard. I have tried resetting CMOS.

You cant, you've killed the board, the bios chip is soldered to the motherboard on these boards.

Try a couple of things first, try with 1 stick of ram, also try and clear the cmos with the jumper on the motherboard.

there isn't a way to reflash with a USB drive or something?

 

[Seanie280672]

No, not on an old board like that, bios flashback is a new feature only found on high end modern boards.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I used the M-flash utility from MSI and then it says to restart, which I did.

Can you explain the process, how you did BIOS flashing?
Did you use USB flash drive?
What file system format was it?
What BIOS file did you copy onto it? Did you unzip it?
What option in M-Flash did you use to update BIOS?

 

[chep]

I used the M-flash utility from MSI and then it says to restart, which I did.

Can you explain the process, how you did BIOS flashing?
Did you use USB flash drive?
What file system format was it?
What BIOS file did you copy onto it? Did you unzip it?
What option in M-Flash did you use to update BIOS?

ok so downloaded the latest bios from https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/970A-G43.html#down-bios . And then I put it in a USB drive. I unziped it into a non bootable drive. Then I started click bios 2 then went to M-flash then I can't really remember how the interface was, but if you have a picture then maybe i can tell you more in detail. But after clicking a few things it says it has to restart, which i clicked yes. Then it never started up again.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Did you remove USB flash drive after restart?

Screens would be similar to this:

 

[chep]

Did you remove USB flash drive after restart?

Screens would be similar to this:

yea, I removed the USB after it not starting up for so long, thought it wouldnt start cause of the USB.

I enabled the BIOS Boot Function. Then it asked to restart. I don't think it asked for which file. It just asked to restart after I enabled it.

 

[SkyNetRising]

So you enabled BIOS boot function only?
Did you choose Update BIOS also? Was there any progress indicator?

 

[chep]

So you enabled BIOS boot function only?
Did you choose Update BIOS also? Was there any progress indicator?

there wasn't any progress indicator, it just asked me to restart

 

[SkyNetRising]

Then you haven't updated motherboard bios.
You just changed settings, so that bios is loaded from usb.

I asked you before - what file system is your USB flash drive formatted in?

 

[chep]

Then you haven't updated motherboard bios.
You just changed settings, so that bios is loaded from usb.

I asked you before - what file system is your USB flash drive formatted in?

I unzipped the file into a normal USB, not a bootable USB. Is file system FAT32 etc?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Is file system FAT32 etc?

Fat16, Fat32, exFat, NTFS - it can be in multiple of formats. You need to make sure it's in Fat32.

 

[chep]

Is file system FAT32 etc?

Fat16, Fat32, exFat, NTFS - it can be in multiple of formats. You need to make sure it's in Fat32.

when I go to the drive properties, it just says file system: FAT

 

[SkyNetRising]

when I go to the drive properties, it just says file system: FAT

Can you post screenshot?

That probably means Fat16. You'll have to reformat it to Fat32.

 

[chep]

when I go to the drive properties, it just says file system: FAT

Can you post screenshot?

That probably means Fat16. You'll have to reformat it to Fat32.

http://imageshack.com/a/img923/9733/LtjL0D.png

 

[chep]

when I go to the drive properties, it just says file system: FAT

Can you post screenshot?

That probably means Fat16. You'll have to reformat it to Fat32.

update: I removed the CMOS for more than 30 seconds and now I can start up, thanks m8