MSI x370 Gaming Pro Carbon, NEWEST BIOS WILL BOOTLOOP - SOLUTION HERE

Chaoss · 4 Jul 2017 at 17:19

If you update to the newest bios (from the 1.6.3 beta bios but it could affect others as well) you will think you killed your PC as when it restarts it will power on and off continuously and a CMOS reset will not fix it.

The solution after some panicked fumbling on my part was to pull the ram out and change the order it's installed (I had sticks in the 1st and 3rd slots as per the manual, I had to change to the 2nd and 4th slots).

DON'T WORRY through the 1st and 3rd slots aren't dead, it just seems that some troll at MSI thought it'd be funny to switch around the order you need to install your sticks of ram.

reflux · 5 Jul 2017 at 17:26

Thanks for the heads-up. Gonna try updating tonight... hopefully it will let me run my Dominators at 2933 and I might actually be able to overclock in the BIOS without the dreaded 1.5ghz bug....

QUGAELITE · 5 Jul 2017 at 20:05

I just had my computer back from repair with a replaced Motherboard and PSU. So it all booted up fine and I was like great! So I updated the BIOS to the most latest one using the supplied MSI Software. It started installing, it then completed and restarted the computer. Then after restarting the PC it loaded up and when it loaded up there is no BIOS and the Debug CPU RED LED light is on? What do I do? HELP!

Chaoss · 5 Jul 2017 at 21:56

QUGAELITE said:
I just had my computer back from repair with a replaced Motherboard and PSU. So it all booted up fine and I was like great! So I updated the BIOS to the most latest one using the supplied MSI Software. It started installing, it then completed and restarted the computer. Then after restarting the PC it loaded up and when it loaded up there is no BIOS and the Debug CPU RED LED light is on? What do I do? HELP!

Turn it off and unplug it, then press the power button (this flushes any excess power out of the system). Now open the computer up and remove the CMOS battery (silver round thing that looks like a watch battery), press the power button with the computer unplugged again to ensure all the power is completely flushed from any capacitors and now replace the battery.

Now remove ALL of the RAM from the computer, plug it back in and power it on. Then power it back off and unplug it and replace ONE stick of ram in the 2nd slot and try again. If you get to the BIOS fire it up and press F6, save then power the computer down. Now lastly put the 2nd stick back into the 4th slot and power it on and it should work. Let me know if you have any luck.

edit: If you don't get any luck with 1 stick of ram, try the other stick and try putting it into different slots. It really is trial and error.

gavinh87 · 5 Jul 2017 at 22:35

Chaoss said:
If you update to the newest bios (from the 1.6.3 beta bios but it could affect others as well) you will think you killed your PC as when it restarts it will power on and off continuously and a CMOS reset will not fix it.

The solution after some panicked fumbling on my part was to pull the ram out and change the order it's installed (I had sticks in the 1st and 3rd slots as per the manual, I had to change to the 2nd and 4th slots).

DON'T WORRY through the 1st and 3rd slots aren't dead, it just seems that some troll at MSI thought it'd be funny to switch around the order you need to install your sticks of ram.

It seems that they have enforced AMD specs. All am4 boards ask for the ram slots to be installed in 2+4 if only using 2 sticks.

nemesisuk2 · 17 Jul 2017 at 00:27

Chaoss said:
If you update to the newest bios (from the 1.6.3 beta bios but it could affect others as well) you will think you killed your PC as when it restarts it will power on and off continuously and a CMOS reset will not fix it.

The solution after some panicked fumbling on my part was to pull the ram out and change the order it's installed (I had sticks in the 1st and 3rd slots as per the manual, I had to change to the 2nd and 4th slots).

DON'T WORRY through the 1st and 3rd slots aren't dead, it just seems that some troll at MSI thought it'd be funny to switch around the order you need to install your sticks of ram.

Weird thing is the manual that came with my Pro carbon says 2nd and 4th slots for the memory. The off and off also should only happen 5 times to as it's the board doing DDR4 memory training.

reflux · 17 Jul 2017 at 09:38

Mine updated fine and then allowed me to set my RAM at 2933 fine using XMP profile 2.

Next time I tried to boot it wouldn't and set everything back to default. Now it doesn't boot at 2933mhz, only 2800mhz. Weird! RAM sticks in the slots recommended by the manual.