Question Msi b350 gaming pro carbon latest (beta) bios problem 2023

[Phil lk]

Hello ,
I have an msi b350 gaming pro carbon and updated it to the latest (beta) and from the current bios layout with easy mode and and advanced mode it turnt it to a layout completely different . And the second problem that I’m having is that now I cannot overclock my cpu (1600x ) from the bios settings( mind that I already had it overclocked to 3,9) . Lastly as I figure out you cannot go back to previous bios for stability reasons !!

Seams like the only thing I can do besides leaving it that is to upgrade to 5600x which supports the latest beta version !
Do you have any other suggestions???

 

[hedwar2011]

You can only roll back a BIOS if the mobo manufacturer provides a path to do so.

You can find all the BIOS versions for that specific board at this link:

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They don't provide any info on supporting rollbacks but you might try contacting their support and see if they can provide some insight.

 

[Phil lk]

You can only roll back a BIOS if the mobo manufacturer provides a path to do so.

You can find all the BIOS versions for that specific board at this link:

MSI Global - The Leading Brand in High-end Gaming & Professional Creation

As a world leading gaming brand, MSI is the most trusted name in gaming and eSports. We stand by our principles of breakthroughs in design, and roll out the amazing gaming gear like motherboards, graphics cards, laptops and desktops.

www.msi.com

They don't provide any info on supporting rollbacks but you might try contacting their support and see if they can provide some insight.

Thanks for the follow back , I will contact them but in the meantime I visited this forum hoping anyone had the same problem as me .
I tried to downgrade and the message was for stability reasons you cannot update to previous bios for stability reasons of the system !

 

[hedwar2011]

Thanks for the follow back , I will contact them but in the meantime I visited this forum hoping anyone had the same problem as me .
I tried to downgrade and the message was for stability reasons you cannot update to previous bios for stability reasons of the system !

Every time I've ever upgraded/downgraded a BIOS it always gives that message as a precaution.

 

[Phil lk]

Every time I've ever upgraded/downgraded a BIOS it always gives that message as a precaution.

Yes but it won’t let you downgrade, it’s just a massage that pops outs and that it .when you flash the downgrade file the message pops and nothing is happening.

 

[drea.drechsler]

Yes but it won’t let you downgrade, it’s just a massage that pops outs and that it .when you flash the downgrade file the message pops and nothing is happening.

It IS possible to revert BIOS...but you'll have to use a UEFI BIOS flashing tool to do it.

Visit the MSI Global English Forum, you'll probably have to join. Then find the DOWNLOADS section, then the Forum UEFI Flash Tool thread. Read through the forum and ask questions there. Download the tool through links in that forum, be sure to get the latest version of the tool. The tool consists of three main parts: an EFI boot environment and AMI's EFI flash tool which takes input from an auto-run script in the EFI command environment. It's the script that does the magic of setting up the flasher to update even when there are update restrictions imposed by either of the two BIOS's.

The primary reason it exists is to facilitate flashing of hacked BIOS's and cross-flashing between similar motherboard models which would always fail validity testing.

The basics are to put the unpacked flash tool files in an EFI folder of a USB flash stick then unpack your BIOS file, rename it to the name the script is looking for and put it on the USB flash stick. Then simply reboot the computer with it set up to boot to the USB drive. It will boot to the EFI files on the USB drive and execute the script which runs the EFI Flash BIOS updater using switches that will force-update to the BIOS you provided.

When run through the script it will update to the provided BIOS image file with no validity checks, so make sure it's the right one. And yes, this is risky...but only if you screw up. But there's really only one way to screw up that badly: that is to use an entirely incorrect BIOS file that's named exactly correctly. Otherwise, if it doesn't find a BIOS file that's named correctly it won't do anything...if you don't get all the files in the right folder it won't do anything...if the EFI files are incorrect it won't do anything... if the USB drive is formatted incorrectly it (probably) won't do anything.

Or...just buy that 5600X. You know you want to, and it's much better than any 1600x no matter how much you can overclock it.