BIOS update gone wrong using live update.

[Martijnbmt]

Good evening. (or morning)

 

I bought myself a new gaming pc a couple of weeks back. Its been performing exeptionally well. But thats not why I am here. Just a couple of hours ago I got a message from MSI's Live Update 6 that there are plenty drivers to be updated. So like a fool I just selected all and clicked to download install. As it turns out there was a BIOS update there. But little did I know that I should not use Live Update for updating your BIOS because for some reason it doesn't work properly. So know its stuck on writing flash for about 3 hours now (see attached file). The code behind "writing flash" is changing slowly though. Any tips on what to do now? I don't want to turn of my system and accidentally break my motherboard or something.

 

I am using an MSI X99S Gaming 7 w/ an Intel i7 5930K

 

Thanks,

 

Martijn

[Adriano33]

Hallo Martijn,

If i'm not mistaken your motherboard is equipped with a dual BIOS, thus you can switch to the other BIOS (B.) when A goes bad.
Within BIOS B you should be able to repair BIOS A, thus flashing a working version over the old corrupted one.

 

For flashing you need to be using a flash drive with the latest version (H.9) on it, which can be downloaded from MSI.

It's also mentioned in your manual (page 1-34) with the necessary steps i think.

[Micky Love]

+1

 

but before, just try to hard reset the cmos AKA short JBAT1 jumper with a metallic object (screwdriver) for 10 sec.