Help Updating Bios

[Crowbar_XL]

I got a new cpu for my 1155 socket mobo, and it's an ivy bridge i7 3770. Went to install it, ran into ram post issues, cleared cmos, still the same, as far as i can tell it's due to bios being older version. On the site (the bios section on my mobo's page) the support for ivy bridge cpu's is added in a newer version than my board has. I also know this because i tried out the cpu on an exact same mobo and it worked on it (didnt check the bios ver but since it does work it probably is updated). Thing is that board's got one ram slot broken so i dont wanna use it.

 

Now i'm trying to update the bios so that i can use the i7 on my main board, but i cant figure out how. It says to run the exe that comes in the update archive on an usb pen drive, and i do that and it restarts saying it will update and restart several times. But it just restarts and nothing happens. Tried booting from the drive, says OS not found. Tried picking the update bios from a file in bios it says i should put a file in a root folder of the drive - what's it mean by this. And since ive got a new ssd as well, im runing off of it now but i tried updating the bios before i installed it and now the windows installation on my HDD is broken, says "GRUB loading stage 1.5. GRUB loading, please wait error 15" or something like this. 

 

The board is a H61M-P23 (B3)

 

[YedZed]

Better idea: Load the bios file onto a flash drive and use your bios flashing built in.

[Tiwaz]

some manufacturers have windows tools like AI Suite (Asus) or App Center (Gigabyte) that have addons to flash/update your BIOS with a few clicks. MSI must have something similar as well

[Crowbar_XL]

23 minutes ago, YedZed said:

Better idea: Load the bios file onto a flash drive and use your bios flashing built in.

What do you mean? My bios has a menu called m-flash i think, and its got options ive already tried, like load bios from file or update from file which both didnt work

21 minutes ago, Tiwaz said:

some manufacturers have windows tools like AI Suite (Asus) or App Center (Gigabyte) that have addons to flash/update your BIOS with a few clicks. MSI must have something similar as well

Well my board is an old one from 2011 and its got the american megatrends uhh.. layout, i guess. So i don't know if there is any software for it, but these updates from msi's site do contain exe's which are supposed to do it but arent working for me for some reason. Once i run them on the drive they extract some files, i have tried seeing if any of those would be the files that can be loaded with the options in the bios but no avail

[Tiwaz]

4 minutes ago, Crowbar_XL said:

 

May I ask why you need the BIOS update?

[Crowbar_XL]

6 minutes ago, Tiwaz said:

May I ask why you need the BIOS update?

well i already wrote it but the i7 ive got for the board wont run because the support for ivy bridge cpu's has been added in a later version than i have, i mean i think its that because i have another exact same board that can run the cpu just fine, and ive checked everything else i could think of

[Tiwaz]

2 minutes ago, Crowbar_XL said:

well i already wrote it but the i7 ive got for the board wont run because the support for ivy bridge cpu's has been added in a later version than i have, i mean i think its that because i have another exact same board that can run the cpu just fine, and ive checked everything else i could think of

ivy bridge on a sandy bridge board? really that works?

[Crowbar_XL]

20 minutes ago, Tiwaz said:

ivy bridge on a sandy bridge board? really that works?

Yeah it says on the site, has the same socket, has bios updates for supporting ivy bridge cpu's and also works on one of the boards i have which are the same model. The only thing that's different is the bios versions.

[Tiwaz]

1 hour ago, Crowbar_XL said:

Yeah it says on the site, has the same socket, has bios updates for supporting ivy bridge cpu's and also works on one of the boards i have which are the same model. The only thing that's different is the bios versions.

so what cpu do you want to pair it with?

[Crowbar_XL]

3 minutes ago, Tiwaz said:

so what cpu do you want to pair it with?

Dude can you please read my original post and not ask me every single piece of info ive already stated in it one by one?

No offense but i already mentioned all of this.

[pyrojoe34]

3 hours ago, Crowbar_XL said:

What do you mean? My bios has a menu called m-flash i think, and its got options ive already tried, like load bios from file or update from file which both didnt work

Get the actual BIOS file, not the exe. For example the bios file might be called something weird like this: "e7926ims.1a0" (not exactly that but it won't be in the form of an exe or anything). Then you should be able to flash from the BIOS.

[Crowbar_XL]

1 minute ago, pyrojoe34 said:

Get the actual BIOS file, not the exe. For example the bios file might be called something weird like this: "e7926ims.1a0" (not exactly that but it won't be in the form of an exe or anything). Then you should be able to flash from the BIOS.

thats what i thought, thing is the exe does create something like that and i tried copying only it and flashing it but once it didnt recognize it once it put the pc into a loop with like 2 or 3 beep error codes so im out of ideas.

[pyrojoe34]

7 minutes ago, Crowbar_XL said:

thats what i thought, thing is the exe does create something like that and i tried copying only it and flashing it but once it didnt recognize it once it put the pc into a loop with like 2 or 3 beep error codes so im out of ideas.

If you run the exe from the flash drive does it create that file on the drive? Then (without changing anything on the drive) try to run it? Are you sure you have the exact correct BIOS for your motherboard version AND revision (if there are multiple)? You also may have to sequentially update the BIOS one step at a time (older versions first then newer versions) to allow it to install firmware updates required before you can update to a newer BIOS.

 

Did you carefully read the SOP? There's something about updating from ME7 to ME8 first and updating the drivers, did you do that?

[Crowbar_XL]

1 minute ago, pyrojoe34 said:

If you run the exe from the flash drive does it create that file on the drive? Then (without changing anything on the drive) try to run it? Are you sure you have the exact correct BIOS for your motherboard version AND revision (if there are multiple)? You also may have to sequentially update the BIOS one step at a time (older versions first then newer versions) to allow it to install firmware updates required before you can update to a newer BIOS.

 

Did you carefully read the SOP? There's something about updating from ME7 to ME8 first, did you do that?

well if i run the exe it creates a folder and i think some files inside that might have a format a similar to what you mentioned. But none of them like "runnable". Also if i cancel the update in the exe it deletes those. Also it shows the version of the bios i have and which it is going to update to, so i assumed it'd tell me if i need to do it one by one version but idk.

[Crowbar_XL]

My bad, there are some exe files. Also my BIG BAD that i never noticed there was a guide on there, but i will see if theres something that can help me there. Watched a video, but the files differ from mine so im a bit confused

 

 

[Crowbar_XL]

I managed to update the bios to the version 17.6, but that's where the format of "an exe file and a bios file" ends. Those worked when you just put em on the stick and go into the bios and select update from file. But the version I need for my cpu is 19.0, or just one version above. There it starts having only an exe that extracts files into the folder on the stick if you run it, but those files differ from the ones before and the bios wont recognize them, so i'm really out of ideas.

[Crowbar_XL]

I tried copying the bios off of the board which has the latest one but this board doesn't recognize it. I think the reason the files from 19.0 and above have exe's is because you cant upgrade it the old way otherwise but for me for some reasons exe's don't do anything after restarting.

[Crowbar_XL]

The problem was that the exe install only worked on windows 7... go figure. Got it all up to date now and the cpu works fine.