Problems at startup, possibly after flashing bios.

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microstar (More info?)

I flashed the BIOS for my MSI FX5600 graphics card a while back. around the
same time my PC stopped starting first time after it had been turned of for
an hour or more.

I have tried reflashing the BIOS, but I can only do it with the same version
as that is the only one available through MSI liveupdate. I have also tried
installing again from they original disk, but that does not reinstall the
old BIOS. and I could not see they original BIOS, or anyway of reinstall it,
when I looked at the contents of the disk.

I visited MSI's website and there are two tools mentioned on the support
pages for removing the new BIOS. but I do not no which to use and if they
are just for motherboard BIOS's, or both?.

This is the page which they are located on
http://www.msi.com.tw/html/support/bios/note/boot.htm

Any ideas???

Thanks,
Scott

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microstar (More info?)

thanks for that, I think I'm going to have to try reflashing the motherboard
BIOS to see if that helps, before I take it back to where I brought it.

but I don't think my motherboard is made by msi. so when I get a copy of the
BIOS to reflash it from will I still need the tool on msi's website, and
will it work?

thanks,
Scott


"Brad Gourdo" <bostjan.klemencic@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1109123705.685108.182080@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> This procedure is for flashing motherboard's BIOS only.
> The procedure you'll take depends on the kind of your BIOS. If it's
> AMI, use first procedure, if AWARD, use second. You can tell which BIOS
> you have if you enter it at the beginning of booting up (usually one
> presses DEL to enter BIOS) and read the title screen (sth like AMI BIOS
> v.XY...)
>
> In order to succeed, you'll need a BIOS file. I just hope you made a
> recovery file when updating your BIOS, otherwise you may have
> problems... I think it's possible to reset BIOS to factory default, but
> I'm not sure...
>
> Good luck,
> Brad Gourdo
>