MSI X58 Pro- e bios flash error

ShrekHasSwag · February 1, 2018

Hi guys,

So a while back I bought this motherboard (MSI X58 Pro- E v3.1) and was running a Xeon X5650 just fine on it. But later I flashed the bios to an older version (was trying to run MacOS on it and thought that maybe there was something wrong with the bios and it didn't run because of that). Apparently, I went to many versions back so that my Xeon wasn´t supported anymore because the board just turned on and didn`t do anything. So I ordered a Xeon W3520 which is on the supported list and it runs no problem with that. My plan was to flash the bios back to the newest version, so I made a bootable FreeDOS drive put the newest bios files on it and booted from it. Now here is where the strange thing is when I try to flash the bios in FreeDOS it gives me an error saying "flash part is not supported". So I looked at the MSI forums and saw that the MSI community has made a flash tool so I tried that one out but it gives me the same error. And also when I go into M-Flash, when I select the drive it doesn't even give me the option to select a bios file it just says that "part is not supported" or something like that can`t remember tbh. I`ve tried different flash drives and different bios versions but it won't work also I tried an "unlocked bios" for this board which is supposed to make these Xeon CPUs be supported. My exact hardware is listed down below, I also included a pic of the exact error that it gives me and a notepad file from the flashing software wich lists the exact bios version (here’s the link for it https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=299393.0;attach=65196).

Hardware list: -Xeon w3520
-Asus Strix GTX960 4 GB
-2x 8gb HyperX Fury RAM (1600MHz)
-750W PSU
-500gb Samsung SSD

Kind regards, ShrekHasSwag