MSI X97 Gaming 7 BIOS issue

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I've had this board for a couple of years now and worked perfectly until one day it wouldn't post and debug showed B6 as the error code.

After a lot of messing around, I conclude there is nothing wrong with any of the components and switching to BIOS 'B' it boots to windows with no issues.

So I guess it's a corrupt BIOS in 'A'.

I've tried flashing first by booting from USB stick in DOS, but it just hangs when instructed to read from the drive (yes it is FAT formatted).

So I finally tried to update BIOS 'A' from the UEFI - it looked like it was working, but then it got stuck updating at 18% with that error code of 'B6' bottom right corner of the screen (and debug code).

Looks like BIOS 'A' is bricked! - Any ideas from you guys?
 
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No one with any ideas? - \i would be interested to hear from anyone who's had trouble flashing their BIOS.

As I said BIOS A seems incapable of being flashed, but BIOS B works fine - I'm just worried now that if BIOS B fails, I've no backup!
 
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