Ive got my eye on an ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 I can pick up for $95.
The pc doesn't get used all that often and I don't want to buy all the components and a new cooler.
Final update:
Online w/MSI tech again. He informed me that I had to boot into windows, put in the thumb drive, and run the program on the thumb drive. Did that, PC restarted on its own, and now I have a flashing cursor in my upper rich corner of my screen.
I guess it's fried.
Can anyone...
I chatted online with a MSI tech this evening. I sent him a picture of my BIOS screen and he stated that it was an old one. Cool, but an old one.
I tried the same things as he suggested which are the same things I’ve mentioned here.
I followed the directions. First, I unzipped the downloaded to my desktop, then copied that to my USB drive. That didn't work so I copied the one file in that folder to my thumb drive.
That didn't work either.
My thumb drive was freshly formatted (full, not quick format) and had only the one...
Well, my manual didn’t have anything specific about flashing the bios.
I did read your link and tried renaming it to “MSI.Rom”, to no avail. I even renamed the usb stick to the name of the flash file, again, to no avail.
At least this time, when I choose the “select the UEFI to flash”, I get a...
Yeah, I noticed that with my original thumb drive, a 128gb. When I went to format it it showed exfat32. A little investigating told me I had too big a thumb drive. I scrounged around and found a 8gb and formatted it in fat32.
**UPDATE #2**
I put the system back together. I found a small (8gb) flash drive and copied the contents of the zipped bios file to the thumb drive (only one file).
I got into the bios and went to the “M-Flash” section. I chose the option to flash from a uefi(?) device. It opened a pop up window...
**UPDATE**
I took the motherboard out of the case and unhooked everything except for video, keyboard, and one stick of memory.
It seems that there was only one USB port on the back of the motherboard that recognized the keyboard. It booted up to the bios, but I couldn’t find a USB port to...
Today I tried unhooking everything from the PC except for the mouse and video cards after clearing the cos on both the back of the pc and on the motherboard...still does the same thing.
Originally I was looking on another site, but finally found and downloaded the bios update on MSI's site.
I'm completely stumped over this. I guess this is what I get for wanting a few extra nano seconds of performance.
Well, the only site where I could find that bios is giving me an internal service error when I tried to download it
I put the old cpu in it and it’s doing the same thing now! :mad:
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