BIOS Glitch

[thornalice]

I have been wanting to apply a custom image to my BIOS screen, as well as enable fast boot, but I am encountering an issue where my menu for boot settings is completely unusable. Instead of displaying the regular menu with the options I am looking for, it instead looks like this; with over 300 of "Corsair Force 3 SSD" (The singular "Disabled" is the preapplied custom boot image from its previous lifetime) on the list and even going so far as to change the word "Boot" and the page description into the same text. While I'm aware that the fact the device still boots into Windows is enough for most to say that it's good enough and I shouldn't be messing with this, I'd still like to fix it either way.

I've tried everything I can think of, but I can't fix the menu. Suggestions would be appreciated, as I'll basically try anything at this point to fix it.

 

System Info:
MSI MS 16F2 Notebook (GT683), Windows 10 64-bit

Dual Corsair Force 3 SSD's, Non-RAID

Aptio Setup Utility 2.10.1208.

 

Things I've tried

-Reflashing from a USB- USB not detected from boot menu, cannot change to a boot mode that detects USB due to glitch; the only shown objects in the Boot menu are one of the two SSDs (The Windows one), the DVDRW drive, and Boot-Over-LAN.
-Reflashing from a CDRW using MS-DOS, "BANANA" error + flash.bat not showing up in dir.

-Running flash.bat on the desktop, 16-bit error.

-AMI BIOS Flashing Utility, cannot read 10Z file from MSI website ("Must be ROM").

-CMOS Reset, no change.

-Attempting to change settings in the Boot tab to see if it reverts the glitch, no change. 

 

Any help is appreciated, thank you! 

[Master Disaster]

Download the latest version of the BIOS for your laptop and flash it over what you currently have and it should restore it back to normal.

 

And yes, you should stop trying, obviously something you're trying to do is not working correctly and if you corrupt your BIOS you kill your board.

[thornalice]

I cannot flash it, it doesn't work for the reasons described above; I didn't cause the BIOS to be like this it was in this state when I got it.

[Master Disaster]

Just now, thornalice said:

I cannot flash it, it doesn't work for the reasons described above; I didn't cause the BIOS to be like this it was in this state when I got it.

Ok, lets just run through the process (not doubting you but in the case of a BIOS the process is important).

 

Download the BIOS from MSI, extract it and put it on a FAT32 formatted USB. Reboot and open BIOS, run QFlash, point it to the BIOS file on the USB and hit Flash.

 

Is that what you tried?

[thornalice]

I have followed these first few steps, however when I get to the BIOS there is no QFlash utility, I'm not sure if it's something I need to download or whether this motherboard simply does not support it. I remembered seeing somewhere that it was only for newer BIOS's and as this laptop is from 2011 I didn't think much of it. 

Is this incorrect? If yes how does one use QFlash?

[Master Disaster]

4 minutes ago, thornalice said:

I have followed these first few steps, however when I get to the BIOS there is no QFlash utility, I'm not sure if it's something I need to download or whether this motherboard simply does not support it. I remembered seeing somewhere that it was only for newer BIOS's and as this laptop is from 2011 I didn't think much of it. 

Is this incorrect? If yes how does one use QFlash?

OK, I did some Googling and it seems as though that Laptop does not have QFlash included. Instead you must create an MS Dos Bootable USB drive with the flash utility and BIOS ROM on it, boot from the USB and run the flasher from DOS. It will not work from Windows either.

[thornalice]

Which leads me back to square 1 as the USB device does not show up in Boot Devices and due to the broken menu I cannot enable legacy or change the boot order.

[Kilrah]

Remove the SSDs so they don't break the menu?

[Master Disaster]

1 minute ago, thornalice said:

Which leads me back to square 1 as the USB device does not show up in Boot Devices and due to the broken menu I cannot enable legacy or change the boot order.

There will be no legacy boot mode on a 2011 laptop.

 

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

Remove the SSDs so they don't break the menu?

This, by disconnecting all other drives the laptop will have no choice but boot from the USB. BTW the download from MSI does not contain boot files, its up to you to make the drive bootable before you add the MSI files to it.

[thornalice]

The notebook is booted into MS-DOS (via removal of all drives), but I cannot seem to run the flash.bat file. I'm not sure if I'm simply doing the wrong command or it cannot find the file.

A:\> B: [ENTER]

B:\> flash.bat [ENTER]

Bad command or file name -"flash.bat"

[thornalice]

My bad, it was under C:\. Thanks so much for the help guys!! I've been trying to do this for like 3 days. Flash successful