Are these Errors when I Boot?

FinalSquall

FinalSquall

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Ok when I boot the PC up, there are 2 slight freezes after the first screen, one of these is an B3 in the bottom right side of the screen
And one of them is A3 in the bottom right of the screen

What do these mean?
 
Same thing happens when I try and go into BIOS, just gets stuck on a screen that looks like this

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B2

I already made a post similar, but meh, looks like u guys are just as puzzled as me *sigh
 
Well I am beat, I will give an exact rundown of the situation, please can anyone who has any idea let me know what is going on.

Basically when I boot the PC up, I cannot get into BIOS, it freezes with the image mentioned in the previous post on the screen

When I clear the CMOS, I can get onto the BIOS once, then I cant again until I reset the CMOS again

I can however boot into Windows (however the things mentioned in the first post happen) and run everything, have installed Chipset and GFX drivers etc. But I am concerned that this BIOS issue means there is something wrong with my PC, only thing I can see visibly not working is the Power LED on the PC.
 
Ensure no usb peripherals are connected when booting. Sometimes they can cause delays in booting. (Boot from usb can be switched off within bios).

Updating bios can be done via windows with many motherboards theses days. I've done it succesfully a couple of times but many folks here think doing bios updates from windows environment is asking for trouble if it goes wrong.
 
FinalSquall said:
I wouldnt know how to Flash the BIOS tho thats for sure, and it sounds like its pretty risky
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You just find the make and model of your board on the manufacturers website and they will have all the BIOS versions on there available for you to download.

Most newer boards have a backup utility anyway. What board do you have?
 
You burn it onto a bootable USB flash drive and run the MSI M-Flash tool which you should be able to find in the BIOS.
 
Ok, and how would I make the Pen drive boot, also could you link me to the BIOS ver I would need, cos I cant find my exact MOBO on the MSI site or atleast I dont see the GEn3 version on it

Sorry for being difficult =/
 
Thanks a lot mate
Right so as I can only access the BIOS once after resetting CMOS, how would you say I should go about doing it? (Also should you unzip the RAR onto the Pen drive). Also do u mean there is an updated BIOS included with the BIOS?

Thanks -.-
 
If you use the M-Flash utility you don't need a bootable device.

Just unZip the BIOS file and copy it to a USB memory stick, insert the memory stick into a USB socket, start the PC, go into the BIOS, run the M-Flash utility and follow the instructions to flash the BIOS with the file on the memory stick.

The latest BIOS I can find is here.
 
Ok, I think I get how to do it, still, sounds risky, what if the USB devise fails during the flash =/, from what I have heard that = new mobo needed
However on startup the Bios version says it is only version 1, so it probably does need to be flashed as the one u linked there is version 23 lol
 
FinalSquall said:
Ok, I think I get how to do it, still, sounds risky, what if the USB devise fails during the flash =/, from what I have heard that = new mobo needed
However on startup the Bios version says it is only version 1, so it probably does need to be flashed as the one u linked there is version 23 lol
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Man up and get on with it.

Seriously, the chances of anything going wrong are very low.
 
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