Can you send a mobo to OCUK to be flashed?

Tweeek · 11 Apr 2015 at 18:08

Hi my friend bought some parts from various places last year and now he has an msi x79a-gd45 plus and an i7-4820k. He tried booting it and said nothing was coming up on the monitor. I picked up the pc and tested all the parts excluding the mobo and cpu and the rebuilt it all, still no luck.

Mobo lights up and everything so I assume its the bios compatibility problem that is common with this chip set. problem is that you cant get into the bios to update it.

From what I can figure, I'd either need to find a compatible CPU(Something like the 3820) and get into the bios and update it, or find a mobo that will work straight out of the box

My question is would OCUK flash/update the bios of the board for me for a fee? or is there a straight out of the box compatible board that anyone can recommended?

Kelt · 11 Apr 2015 at 18:12

You have a third choice, you can buy a bios from Ebay, with the latest revision or one of your choice.

Rroff · 11 Apr 2015 at 18:13

Unless its from old stock - X79 boards sold last year _should_ support the 4820K out the box - it should say what BIOS revision it has on a label somewhere on the board or box it came in.

varkanoid · 11 Apr 2015 at 19:14

or lookup the board on MSI's website there should be a compatible CPU list that tells you what BIOS is required for the CPU

deano-5 · 11 Apr 2015 at 21:43

Try a local pc shop

Keyboards'Fear · 11 Apr 2015 at 23:09

I had the exact same problem.. I bought the BIOS off of EBAY, because when I told Asus/Asrock they said it would be 2 weeks before the new bios arrived. The ebay bios arrived 2 days after ordering, so I would go for the ebay rout.

And yes, I've got a 4820K so I know his pain

HACO · 11 Apr 2015 at 23:19

Buy one from ebay.

Snookums · 11 Apr 2015 at 23:40

Wait this is news to me. You can order bios?

spoffle · 11 Apr 2015 at 23:56

Snookums said:
Wait this is news to me. You can order bios?

It depends on the board, some boards have BIOS chips that you can pop out and replace.

pastymuncher · 12 Apr 2015 at 10:54

Looks like that board has a soldered bios chip so it would have to be flashed. The 4820k was supported from bios 17.4 though which has a release date of 28-8-2013 so unless the board has been sitting around for a extremely long time it should work out of the box.