MSI P67A-GD53 BIOS failure?

[mtak99]

Hello everyone,

I am in a bit of trouble, and I'm hoping someone can help me out. I'd like to say that I've only flashed mobos a few times in the past but never had any problems until now so I'm kinda unsure with what to do.

I was getting some BSOD now and then while playing games and decided to update the BIOS etc to see if that would help fix it. Well, I flashed from the 1.A bios (2011-03-30) to the latest one from the BIOS menu (M-FLASH), I got the BIOS from the MSI website. It got to about 98% then restarted and now it just BSOD's over and over, I'm lucky if I can get into Windows, the BSOD's are usually all sorts of different things. I have tried flashing back to the previous BIOS but no difference - I really hope I haven't killed the board. I did put the SSD (Boot drive) back into AHCI after flashing but still crashes. I've tried clearing the CMOS - made no difference. Tried to boot from optical to reinstall Windows but it crashes before I can even get into setup . . . any ideas?

System specs: MSI P67A-GD53, i5-2500k, Corsair XMS3 DDR3 4GBx2, GTX 470, C300 SSD, Corsair 750W PSU

Thanks

 

[clutchc]

Can you boot into BIOS? Is your CMOS battery good?

Whatever mode you installed Windows in (ACHI or IDE) is the only mode it will boot to. Put the mode back to the mode you installed Windows in.

It's probably best not to revert to an older BIOS once you've flashed it. I've done it with no ill effects, but read where it isn't advisable.

 

[mtak99]

Can you boot into BIOS? Is your CMOS battery good?

Whatever mode you installed Windows in (ACHI or IDE) is the only mode it will boot to. Put the mode back to the mode you installed Windows in.

It's probably best not to revert to an older BIOS once you've flashed it. I've done it with no ill effects, but read where it isn't advisable.

Hi,

Yeah I can boot into BIOS np, CMOS battery is fine too I think. Everything was pretty much fine until I flashed the BIOS, really wishing I hadn't bothered, maybe I could have fixed the occasional BSOD some other way.

The SSD (boot drive) is in ACHI mode like it was when I installed Windows on it back in October 2011, it did go back to IDE after flashing but I changed that. It just BSOD's over and over, can't do much outside of the BIOS without a BSOD forcing me to restart, I actually don't know how to fix this apart from buying a new board?

Should I try to RMA this?

 

[clutchc]

That's a pretty modern board. I doubt you ruined it by flashing the BIOS. Unless the BIOS chip is defective. I went to the board's site; http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P67A-GD53.html#/?div=BIOS and saw the 1.A BIOS is quite far down the list. Maybe try flashing a mid-way BIOS and then the latest BIOS. Or just keep flashing the new BIOS until you get it to complete. I wonder if breadboarding the motherboard with just CPU/HSF, graphics card, PSU, RAM would help it to complete.

As far as the BSOD issues, you may be forced to do a clean install of Windows. If so, use this SSD guide to help you avoid pitfalls with the SSD.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds There are a few Idiosyncrasies that accompany Win 7 installs on a SSD.

Btw, the BSOD issues may get cleared up simply by running something like CCleaner to remove resource wasting garbage and registry errors. I always do the Clean and Registry both. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner