ICON57 Posted July 1, 2005 Posted July 1, 2005 I work with my cousin, in his art studio, here in Daytona. Last june I built him a rig. Msi mobo K8N Neo2, AMD FX-53, 4 Gigs Ram, raided hd's yada yada yada. This computer is mainly used to power Onyx Rip software for a colorspan wide format printer(60") We do art reproduction for artists and photographers. My cousin is also a photochop expert, so i built him a powerful rig for his needs. Yesterday, I deceide to use this "live update" software from msi, its a windows based flash utility. I can tell you how many times i ignored the program when it told me it found updates for bios, chipset, video..etc. So, i click on update....big mistake The flash seemed to go well, but upon reboot...black screen of death. I went on msi forums, in the bios section, and it was horror story after horror story, on failed bios from this live update. I did call the tech support people, but it is impossible to get a human on the phone. I did get a response to my email. and now i have a rma number, but what a hassle. Pull the mobo, send, wait, hopefully get back working mobo. I just flashed my dfi 875P-T 3 days ago, and had no problems. I have always heard the horrors of a failed flash... moral....if it aint broke, dont fix it...lol thanks for leting me rant people... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken Joe Posted July 1, 2005 Posted July 1, 2005 I work with my cousin, in his art studio, here in Daytona. Last june I built him a rig.Msi mobo K8N Neo2, AMD FX-53, 4 Gigs Ram, raided hd's yada yada yada. This computer is mainly used to power Onyx Rip software for a colorspan wide format printer(60") We do art reproduction for artists and photographers. My cousin is also a photochop expert, so i built him a powerful rig for his needs. Yesterday, I deceide to use this "live update" software from msi, its a windows based flash utility. I can tell you how many times i ignored the program when it told me it found updates for bios, chipset, video..etc. So, i click on update....big mistake The flash seemed to go well, but upon reboot...black screen of death. I went on msi forums, in the bios section, and it was horror story after horror story, on failed bios from this live update. I did call the tech support people, but it is impossible to get a human on the phone. I did get a response to my email. and now i have a rma number, but what a hassle. Pull the mobo, send, wait, hopefully get back working mobo. I just flashed my dfi 875P-T 3 days ago, and had no problems. I have always heard the horrors of a failed flash... moral....if it aint broke, dont fix it...lol thanks for leting me rant people... I know the feeling my back up rig is 4 years old? I stil lhavent updated though I have done it a dozen times on the DFI just for kicks. Try http://badflash.com/ or find anouther person with the same MOBO and do a hot flash. Personaly I would just get theone from badflash and hot flash the old one if you are memtest stable for a back up..... of cource the floppy way is best I am to lazy when my righ is tested stable. I had to do the same thing on one of my MB's. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICON57 Posted July 1, 2005 Posted July 1, 2005 you know, the funny thing is, i had my back turned, while i was in the black screen of death mode, i was on a different comp, reading all the msi bad flash stories, and i turn around, and the pc is at the windows desktop! I was like huh???? It must have took about 15 mins for it to get there. I knew something was still wrong, so i figure i have to try a reboot, which i did. Same thing...BSOD I was/am able to get into the bios, and also get it to boot up from a floppy. So i re-flashed back to the previous bios, same thing, BSOD. Tried a few other earlier bios's and nothing. I have never tried a hot flash, and i do have an rma. I told my cousin, we can just order a new mobo from newegg 124.00 and get the board rma'ed an re-sell it on ebay. Time is a factor, so for about 100 bucks (give or take a few dollars) we can have a new mobo, ready to install. If I get the same board, will my raided drives be ok? I am thinking i can get away with out doing a fresh install. I sold my 875B and when my 875P-T arrived i poped it in and windows loaded right to my desk top...but i did a clean install anyways. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted July 1, 2005 Posted July 1, 2005 After the flash did you do a proper clear cmos, http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showpost.p...702&postcount=4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken Joe Posted July 1, 2005 Posted July 1, 2005 Clear comos- figured you know about this from the other board as it is a common problem test memtest too before you hit windows. It could easaly be a memory timing problems or some such. Sounds like you were reading about bad flashes so you assumend you had one. If you do get memtest stable I would reinstall windows. I hope they start helping you over there or we will need your sig info to help more. :tooth: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICON57 Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 thanks guys for the sdvice. Today msi tech support called and they send me an unreleased Beta bios, which after the flash, booted right into windows. I dont understand why my other flashed didnt let the system boot, but this one did, all is back up and running good...Whew! Bosses are happy too...lol Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 Well that is good news! I wonder what was changed to allow a good boot into Windows...??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICON57 Posted July 2, 2005 Posted July 2, 2005 yep, me too, i just thanked the bios gods, and was happy to get er up and running. I will be interested in the bios you are working on ace, when you have it completed. :nod: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ4 Posted July 5, 2005 Posted July 5, 2005 Try suing them. CJ ps- JK Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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