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MSI bios update error

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August 20, 2014 1:17:59 PM

So I was going to update my bios, I put the bios file in the FAT32 usb hardrive and went into the bios, I enabled BIOS boot function and clicked on "select one file to boot" when suddenly I got an error saying "The SETUP Data Map is different between system BIOS and boot BIOS. If select to boot, the system would be fail to reboot!!!" And so I disabled the BIOS boot function and restarted the computer because I was too scared to try to update bios after this error, anyone has any idea what this means or what I can do to update the bios without getting this??

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a c 134 V Motherboard
August 20, 2014 1:46:00 PM

Whatever you do, DO NOT use MSI "Live Update" to flash your BIOS! With LU there is a high probability that you will brick your mobo!

Which MSI mobo do you have?

Yogi
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August 20, 2014 1:49:26 PM

I have an MSI H97 Gaming 3 mobo, and yeah, I've read about live update and its problems with bios updating, never tried it and never will.
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a b V Motherboard
August 20, 2014 1:50:21 PM

you should not boot to nothing you go to the bios then theres a page that you select how your flashing you select the usb way and follow the prompts and it will load the bios file from the pendrive to the bios chip and when complete its done

don't your manual show this?? and the steps from oc'er should be near the same -- you down load the bios set up the pen drive add the bios file to the drive go in to your bios to the flash page and select the usb way it will find the drive select the file and hit go then it will read and load the new bios to the bios chip and when done you set things back up in the new bios and save and exit ..

now be sure you got the correct bios and a good clean download of it
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a b V Motherboard
August 20, 2014 2:00:06 PM

this is just sad from msi ---- ''Boards with built-in M-Flash function - While this is a nice idea, at the moment we are seeing many cases of users using M-Flash to update their BIOS and having problems, so at present we don't recommend people use M-Flash either!

https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=119375.0


so is it that there boards have no stable way to flash them?? I see msi won't be coming to this house its like ''we got bios updates for you but we have no way for you to do it safe ??''
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August 20, 2014 2:03:48 PM

@junkeymonkey

Yeah I did all you said, but the moment I was going to boot from my flash drive to update the bios I got this error "The SETUP Data Map is different between system BIOS and boot BIOS. If select to boot, the system would be fail to reboot!!!".

That's pretty scary and risky, I have no idea what that means, but I won't try to update my bios until anyone here says it's nothing, I already fucked up with my bios once, I won't do so again, so does anyone have any idea what this error means?
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August 20, 2014 2:12:45 PM

Yeah.. I know a few people who tried updating with live update and got their pc fucked, I really dont understand why they add a bios update option in there if it surely causes a lot of trouble..
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a b V Motherboard
August 20, 2014 2:21:47 PM

whats bad is msi seems to admit that there flash methods don't work
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a b V Motherboard
August 20, 2014 3:01:24 PM

I need a user name and password just to get that support info?? should I have a c card ready??
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a c 134 V Motherboard
August 21, 2014 9:14:20 AM

junkeymonkey said:
I need a user name and password just to get that support info?? should I have a c card ready??


Nope. No payment required. I guess that you need to join the Forum before you can view that page.

Sorry.

Yogi

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a b V Motherboard
August 21, 2014 11:50:23 AM

lol... no prob

sure sems msi need to get off there duff and fix there bios flashing .. all I see is a mess when I look things up on it
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a b V Motherboard
August 21, 2014 11:25:21 PM

would you download the correct bios?what type is your motherboard?
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August 22, 2014 2:37:23 AM

Do you click the "Select one file to boot" during the USB M-Flash?

try to pick the their opition "Select one file to updateBIOS and ME"
this is the right one for M-Flash update!

the top one is some new feature which can let you preview the new bios without install it, but not work very well
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October 10, 2014 2:40:51 PM

Thanks MartinNixon, that did the trick! I was also getting the message the OP got, very scary! Am not impressed with the MSI BIOS, its interface and language, really needs sorting out. The hardware is pretty good and reasonably priced but they've *got* to work on fundamental stuff like this in order to keep my custom...
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