17 Minute BIOS Flash

SirDank · 18 Nov 2020 at 16:34

Picked up my 5600X today and went to flash the BIOS on my MSI B550 board. Currently im on 14 minutes. What should I do, is the board done for now?

Freddie1980 · 18 Nov 2020 at 16:58

Oh boy that doesn't look good. Can you explain exactly what steps you went through before flashing the BIOS?

SirDank · 18 Nov 2020 at 17:10

Freddie1980 said:
Oh boy that doesn't look good. Can you explain exactly what steps you went through before flashing the BIOS?

Formatted a USB to FAT32. Downloaded the latest BIOS direct from the MSI website. Unzipped the file and renamed the appropriate file 'MSI.ROM'. Took new mobo with out RAM or CPU installed, plugged in CPU power and ATX power connectors. Plugged USB into the highlighted port, clicked the flash button and it hasnt stopped flashing red since.

Freddie1980 · 18 Nov 2020 at 18:44

SirDank said:
Formatted a USB to FAT32. Downloaded the latest BIOS direct from the MSI website. Unzipped the file and renamed the appropriate file 'MSI.ROM'. Took new mobo with out RAM or CPU installed, plugged in CPU power and ATX power connectors. Plugged USB into the highlighted port, clicked the flash button and it hasnt stopped flashing red since.

You removed the CPU and RAM? I've never done that when updating the bios. I can't say for sure but what's probably happing is the flash utility is trying to write the latest AGIES code to the CPU and has stalled because it can't find the CPU.

mickyflinn · 18 Nov 2020 at 19:09

Freddie1980 said:
You removed the CPU and RAM? I've never done that when updating the bios. I can't say for sure but what's probably happing is the flash utility is trying to write the latest AGIES code to the CPU and has stalled because it can't find the CPU.

Not the case , the motherboard has bios flashback which can install the bios without a cpu.