MSI B550-A PRO M-Flash does not work

[Rasmus_A]

Hello, 

 

I have just got a new mother board for my new Ryzen 7 5700x. This is the MSI B550-A PRO. I knew, that I had to update the BIOS, before the system would work. Therefore, I settled on flashing the BIOS using M-FLASH. However, the process does not stop. I have tried several times with different USB-drives, different BIOS versions and a wide range of durations. Each time I have formatted the USB-drive as Fat32 before putting the Bios-file onto the drive. Then renaming the file to MSI.ROM. CPU, GPU, HDD, SDD, NVME and RAM is disconnected. At this point, I would appreciate a bit of help, to solve my issue. 

[filpo]

13 minutes ago, Rasmus_A said:

Hello, 

 

I have just got a new mother board for my new Ryzen 7 5700x. This is the MSI B550-A PRO. I knew, that I had to update the BIOS, before the system would work. Therefore, I settled on flashing the BIOS using M-FLASH. However, the process does not stop. I have tried several times with different USB-drives, different BIOS versions and a wide range of durations. Each time I have formatted the USB-drive as Fat32 before putting the Bios-file onto the drive. Then renaming the file to MSI.ROM. CPU, GPU, HDD, SDD, NVME and RAM is disconnected. At this point, I would appreciate a bit of help, to solve my issue. 

have you extracted the file and then putting only the bios file on the drive? More info in vid below 

 

[Rasmus_A]

23 minutes ago, filpo said:

have you extracted the file and then putting only the bios file on the drive? More info in vid below 

 

Yes, currently I have download/ed the latest bios from MSI. This file have been extracted in the downloads folder and renamed MSI. ROM before being put onto the USB-drive. 

[Rasmus_A]

This video shows the state of the process. 

[filpo]

1 minute ago, Rasmus_A said:

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[filpo]

3 minutes ago, Rasmus_A said:

This video shows the state of the process. 

You know the pc will boot up with the cpu inside without a bios update right? Because it’s a b550 board with a ryzen 5000 chip. There’s no need for a bios update 

[Rasmus_A]

5 minutes ago, filpo said:

You know the pc will boot up with the cpu inside without a bios update right? Because it’s a b550 board with a ryzen 5000 chip. There’s no need for a bios update 

Hmm. I will try to fit the CPU. I just thought a BIOS update was needed, since it says so on the box.

 

[filpo]

4 minutes ago, Rasmus_A said:

Hmm. I will try to fit the CPU. I just thought a BIOS update was needed, since it says so on the box.

 

It should say ‘ryzen 5000 ready, ryzen 3rd gen bios update required’

[Rasmus_A]

33 minutes ago, filpo said:

It should say ‘ryzen 5000 ready, ryzen 3rd gen bios update required’

I belive it says the opposite. However, I have just fitted the CPU and turned on the PC. Indeed, it does not work. The white LED is still on at CPU, which means the CPU is malfunctioning or is not detected by the motherboard. 

[filpo]

1 hour ago, Rasmus_A said:

Yes, currently I have download/ed the latest bios from MSI. This file have been extracted in the downloads folder and renamed MSI. ROM before being put onto the USB-drive. 

but have you put only the 'text' file like the one in the ss to the usb? Only that and not the whole bios folder, because that might be it

[filpo]

Just now, filpo said:

but have you put only the 'text' file like the one in the ss to the usb? Only that and not the whole bios folder, because that might be it

 

11 minutes ago, Rasmus_A said:

I belive it says the opposite. However, I have just fitted the CPU and turned on the PC. Indeed, it does not work. The white LED is still on at CPU, which means the CPU is malfunctioning or is not detected by the motherboard. 

 

1 hour ago, filpo said:

have you extracted the file and then putting only the bios file on the drive? More info in vid below 

 

watch the vid again from 0:40 to 0:50 to see what they do to the usb and you would do this on a laptop

[Rasmus_A]

13 minutes ago, filpo said:

 

 

watch the vid again from 0:40 to 0:50 to see what they do to the usb and you would do this on a laptop

I have been using this (from the manual) as inspiration:

 

 

I have followed this many times and with different USB-drives. Furthermore, I have tried to achieve a result by resetting the CMOS, using the following method: