MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon - BIOS and RAID help

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Hello all,

Just tried to do a BIOS update on the above board. It is currently running a BIOS from August 2019, but just thought whilst I have time I'll update it.

I tried to run the flashback using an 8GB USB stick. The red light was flashing as normal, then the PC restarted. I entered the BIOS and it was still on the old BIOS with "old-school" style menus, and the date of the BIOS is the same.

I have the CPU, RAM etc installed but from what I understand it should work with all these parts in the board.
What have I done wrong?

Thanks
 
For one thing B450 Carbon doesn't have that graphical bloat BIOS because of 16MB BIOS chip, if you're trying to get that.

And when having booting machine you can do BIOS update from BIOS itself.
 
EsaT said:
For one thing B450 Carbon doesn't have that graphical bloat BIOS because of 16MB BIOS chip, if you're trying to get that.

And when having booting machine you can do BIOS update from BIOS itself.
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Ah OK, thanks. I'll give that a try.
 
Also.. Another issue.

I have 2x crucial mx300 ssds. I am trying to raid 0 these, and then run my m.2 ssd as the primary boot drive.
I set the sata from ahci to RAID in bios. Reboot.
The raid configuration menu does not show up, so I change to uefi on Windows configuration from csm. Reboot. Then the raid setup shows.
I configure the array, all fine. But then I have no boot devices to choose from??

So back to csm on the Windows OS, but now I'm back to no raid configuration options in the bios, and windows does not detect the raid array? What should I be doing here?
 
ShivP said:
Also.. Another issue.

I have 2x crucial mx300 ssds. I am trying to raid 0 these, and then run my m.2 ssd as the primary boot drive.
I set the sata from ahci to RAID in bios. Reboot.
The raid configuration menu does not show up, so I change to uefi on Windows configuration from csm. Reboot. Then the raid setup shows.
I configure the array, all fine. But then I have no boot devices to choose from??

So back to csm on the Windows OS, but now I'm back to no raid configuration options in the bios, and windows does not detect the raid array? What should I be doing here?
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It looks like your Windows is installed in non UEFI mode, that's why your boot devices disappear when you change to UEFI only mode. Reinstalling Windows 10 with UEFI only mode might solve your issue.
 
MSIUK Support said:
It looks like your Windows is installed in non UEFI mode, that's why your boot devices disappear when you change to UEFI only mode. Reinstalling Windows 10 with UEFI only mode might solve your issue.
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Damnit, how did I manage that!

Is there any way to change this without reinstalling windows?
 
Don't be hard on yourself :) It is pretty easy to overlook this because the default setting is generally not UEFI only mode.

UEFI and non-UEFI setups have different partition structures. It may be possible to back up partitions and create necessary ones manually for UEFI but if you consider the time required to dig into the issue, finding a decent workaround and cloning the drives, it may actually take longer than making a fresh install and set up the system again.
 
MSIUK Support said:
Don't be hard on yourself :) It is pretty easy to overlook this because the default setting is generally not UEFI only mode.

UEFI and non-UEFI setups have different partition structures. It may be possible to back up partitions and create necessary ones manually for UEFI but if you consider the time required to dig into the issue, finding a decent workaround and cloning the drives, it may actually take longer than making a fresh install and set up the system again.
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Thanks for your help!

I managed to convert using this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfJep4hmg9o

All is well
 
@MSIUK Support me again....


I have just installed some Crucial Ballistix RGB 16GB RAM into my system.
I was trying to control the RGB using mystic light in dragon center, however it would only control one stick. Odd I thought.
So I tried to use Crucial MOD software, this controlled both fine.

Updated dragon center to the latest version available on the product support page for the motherboard - now it will not control the RGB at all! The "DRAM" section is shown however the lights are now permanently off!
Any ideas?

Also - the latest BIOS on the page appears to not update the BIOS. The revision date is somewhere in mid august which is earlier than the revision prior?
 
ShivP said:
@MSIUK Support me again....


I have just installed some Crucial Ballistix RGB 16GB RAM into my system.
I was trying to control the RGB using mystic light in dragon center, however it would only control one stick. Odd I thought.
So I tried to use Crucial MOD software, this controlled both fine.

Updated dragon center to the latest version available on the product support page for the motherboard - now it will not control the RGB at all! The "DRAM" section is shown however the lights are now permanently off!
Any ideas?

Also - the latest BIOS on the page appears to not update the BIOS. The revision date is somewhere in mid august which is earlier than the revision prior?
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Hi, Dragon Center is in active development for both supporting new products and new features. I'll ask our software team for any beta releases to share with you.

RGB softwares in general have a tendency to create conflicts when there is more than one installed. Is this behaviour persists even after uninstalling the Crucial Mod software?

For your BIOS issue, i need to replicate that. Could you please share a screenshot showing the bios build revision and date?

Thanks
 
Alfie786 said:
just download crucial RGb software im sure they would have this liek corsair has. its own RGB SW.

coolio
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Thanks - I would like to sync the RGB together hence the mystic light integration but obviously not the end of the world if it doesn't!

MSIUK Support said:
Hi, Dragon Center is in active development for both supporting new products and new features. I'll ask our software team for any beta releases to share with you.

RGB softwares in general have a tendency to create conflicts when there is more than one installed. Is this behaviour persists even after uninstalling the Crucial Mod software?

For your BIOS issue, i need to replicate that. Could you please share a screenshot showing the bios build revision and date?

Thanks
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Hi. I have sort-of managed to get the RGB working now. I removed Dragon Center and Crucial MOD, deleted all program data etc, then reinstalled the latest version actually from the specific motherboard utility page. Then I had to move the DIMMs to slot 2 + 4, then it started working after messing around in dragon center.

Regarding the BIOS, I have this issue.

The latest BIOS:
qFb0qQs.png


Gives this:
HsQy70Y.png




The previous BIOS:

fKiK3KW.png



Gives this:

7iU7HQh.png



The date goes backwards - not really sure what to do here...

The latest BIOS sounds good as the POST time etc is a little slow on the board at the minute, but for the moment I have the previous 20-09 BIOS installed
 
ShivP said:
Thanks - I would like to sync the RGB together hence the mystic light integration but obviously not the end of the world if it doesn't!



Hi. I have sort-of managed to get the RGB working now. I removed Dragon Center and Crucial MOD, deleted all program data etc, then reinstalled the latest version actually from the specific motherboard utility page. Then I had to move the DIMMs to slot 2 + 4, then it started working after messing around in dragon center.

Regarding the BIOS, I have this issue.

The latest BIOS:
qFb0qQs.png


Gives this:
HsQy70Y.png




The previous BIOS:

fKiK3KW.png



Gives this:

7iU7HQh.png



The date goes backwards - not really sure what to do here...

The latest BIOS sounds good as the POST time etc is a little slow on the board at the minute, but for the moment I have the previous 20-09 BIOS installed
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Thanks for sharing the issue with the BIOS, i'll report it to our BIOS team.

Meanwhile, you can use the diagnostic tool in the link below to perform clean uninstall for dragon center.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15YgWcdgqQq3HeB1archX9zGRhRbzQS-W/view?usp=sharing
 
MSIUK Support said:
Hi there!

Not at the moment, I believe bios team is pretty occupied by the development of the Z490 bioses right now but I'll send a reminder.
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Great - thanks. I'm also having some issues with the CPU not downclocking correctly and therefore running hot at idle so I hope a new BIOS maybe could hopefully possibly help with this :D
 
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