Bricked mobo?

[aisle9]

So I picked up an MSI G41M4-L on the cheap and built a Core 2 Quad rig out of it. I grabbed updated BIOS off the MSI site and updated for it to read a 4GB RAM stick properly, and used M-Flash. The update was successful and then...nothing.

 

By "nothing", I mean that the PC will power on, but there's no visual output. No audio output, either. Everything runs up to full power, the CPU fan comes on, I can open and close the ODD just fine, but it won't boot to anything. No motherboard speaker chirps. I've already reset CMOS, pulled out the GPU and gone down to a single 2GB stick of RAM. Do I have a bricked mobo, or is there something I haven't tried yet?

[Wolly9102]

5 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

So I picked up an MSI G41M4-L on the cheap and built a Core 2 Quad rig out of it. I grabbed updated BIOS off the MSI site and updated for it to read a 4GB RAM stick properly, and used M-Flash. The update was successful and then...nothing.

 

By "nothing", I mean that the PC will power on, but there's no visual output. No audio output, either. Everything runs up to full power, the CPU fan comes on, I can open and close the ODD just fine, but it won't boot to anything. No motherboard speaker chirps. I've already reset CMOS, pulled out the GPU and gone down to a single 2GB stick of RAM. Do I have a bricked mobo, or is there something I haven't tried yet?

sounds like a bad flash. if so yes. your mobo is bricked. what file did you download?

[aisle9]

10 minutes ago, Arjan W said:

sounds like a bad flash. if so yes. your mobo is bricked. what file did you download?

The most recent BIOS zip off of MSI's site. Unzipped it to a USB drive, went into BIOS, fired up M-flash and went from there. 

 

Bad flash was the first thing that came to my mind too

[Wolly9102]

On 31-1-2017 at 0:57 AM, aisle9 said:

The most recent BIOS zip off of MSI's site. Unzipped it to a USB drive, went into BIOS, fired up M-flash and went from there. 

 

Bad flash was the first thing that came to my mind too

you can try to flash again. but if it doesn't work you are out of luck

[aisle9]

29 minutes ago, Arjan W said:

you can try to flash again. but if it doesn't work you are out of luck

That's true, I hadn't tried a bootable USB drive yet, but the system doesn't POST and I'm not sure it would flash again.