Attention Msi Gd-70 Users!

[Raiderman]

Flashed beta bios 1.82 from OCZ forums, and bricked my board. Do not flash this bios unless you want a paper weight!

As always, beta bios's are a "flash at your own risk" proposition, so beware!

[daytripper67mi]

Is the bios chip socketed?I bought a bios chip for my AX78 when a bad flash bricked it,cost like $12.99 from bios depot on EBAY.It came pre-flashed,I Then hotflashed the dead chip now i have a spare.

[Praz]

v1.82 flashed fine here as did v1.83.

[Oliverda]

Flashed beta bios 1.82 from OCZ forums, and bricked my board. Do not flash this bios unless you want a paper weight!

As always, beta bios's are a "flash at your own risk" proposition, so beware!

Turn on your machine and wait few seconds for the 4 short beep. Then you can flash it back through the M-Flash in the BIOS.

[Raiderman]

Turn on your machine and wait few seconds for the 4 short beep. Then you can flash it back through the M-Flash in the BIOS.

All it does when it powers on is run all the fans at 100%.

FF displayed on the LED, which means initializing cpu

[Oliverda]

All it does when it powers on is run all the fans at 100%.

FF displayed on the LED, which means initializing cpu

You should wait more.

or:

AMD boards with AMIBIOS8 can recover from USB stick.

The way it works on my DKA 790 Platinum, I used BIOS A7550AMT.150 (Winki BIOS) but I managed to kill it because I was altering (as in editting) the BIOS, but it went wrong.

Recovery is simple:

Put an PCI-e videocard in the machine, onboard will probably fail.
Power the machine with CTRL-Home pressed, now be patient, as it will probably tell you what file it expects.
Mine told me A7550AMT.1xx

So I prepared an USB-stick FAT(32) with A7550AMT.150 (original one), nothing else.
I put it in the USB-slot near the Network-connector.
Then Poweron with CTRL-HOME pressed until it starts reading the BIOS.

However it wasn't able to restore the BIOS, but was able to boot Windows! (I pressed F2 to continue)
Now boot into Windows and run AFUWIN version 4.10 or higher, should be a part of LiveUpdate (install it if you don't have it, then run the file from program-files).
This is Windows flashing so be VERY carefull!! Shutdown all programs you can!

Well flash your BIOS with AFUWIN (only for recovery, not for normal flashing), see settings below, what ever you do, do NOT overwrite the bootblock because if that fails you can't recover for sure!

After flashing reboot and go into the BIOS, and set the settings you need.

This worked for me, so I hope it works for you too.

source

[Glow9]

were you using a program in windows to do it?

[Raiderman]

were you using a program in windows to do it?

oh hell no! Using a usb stick in mflash. Thing that was weird is, it said something like " bios type mismatch" which I thought was some warning about the beta file extension, so I forced it.

[Raiderman]

Oliverda, I read that already on the MSI forums. Suppose I can try again. I tried with a CD, and a USB stick pressing CTRL-home. Do I need to have CTRL-HOME pressed prior to pushing the power button?

[Glow9]

Kinda old school but did you take out the battery, clear the cmos ect ect?

[Oliverda]

Oliverda, I read that already on the MSI forums. Suppose I can try again. I tried with a CD, and a USB stick pressing CTRL-home. Do I need to have CTRL-HOME pressed prior to pushing the power button?

I don't know. When I had a similar issue I just wait a couple of seconds and then the machine started. Do you have speaker connected to the mobo?

[Raiderman]

Its toast...I sent off for a new one. Twelve years of flashing bios's, first one thats gone bad

[FireDragon]

"knock" on wood here i have never had a bad flash ( and till recently i would say probably 30% of my flashing was thru windows till i got a USB stick i could make bootable) it is possible that the bios was corrupt from the dl, im assuming u had everything set 2 stock? sometimes on my NF4 board i HAVE to clear the cmos after a flash or it wont start, other bios just boot right up, but i still have a habit if they do to just 2 set optimized defaults and shutting down and still resting the cmos, so if u still have the board i would suggest trying that

Dragon

[MadDias]

oh hell no! Using a usb stick in mflash. Thing that was weird is, it said something like " bios type mismatch" which I thought was some warning about the beta file extension, so I forced it.

never flash a bios that doesn´t match ur bios chip.
i´m pretty sure u had a corrupt bios file. mflsh doesn´t care if it´s a beta or a official bios.
i flashed almost every beta bios from 1.3b6 to 1.8b3 with mflash without getting a warning message.

[xPliziT]

oh hell no! Using a usb stick in mflash. Thing that was weird is, it said something like " bios type mismatch" which I thought was some warning about the beta file extension, so I forced it.

dont use the integrated M-Flash i bricked my GD70 long time ago when it came out.

The only way for me to recover was to build a flash cable and do in circuit flash of the bios, although highly experimental but it worked and i recovered it.
i did write a rough manual over at amdzone, let me know if you need more info on that.

Always use that dos flash tool from msi which comes with bios file!

[xPliziT]

If you get that message "type mismatch" using integrated M-Flash never flash otherwise you brick the board!

I can confirm that, but the crazy part is that the beta bios actually is the correct one for the board so that message doesnt make sense!
Flashing the same beta bios using the amibios flash tool work perfectly.

[zanzabar]

next time use a usb drive and use the bios from the usb stick so u know it works then flash it. if u cant get the fix to work msi covers messed up flashes in their warranty and they only take a week for an rma

[Raiderman]

I knew it was the correct bios, thats why I forced it. I guess Msi's Mflash isnt as stable as Asus's Q-flash? Never had a problem with Asus's integrated flash utility.
Thanks for the confirmation, xplizit!

[Dopamin3]

Stay away from any integrated flashing solution that the motherboard has. M-Flash, Q-Flash, whatever it is called; you always run a much higher risk of bricking a board than in DOS. It's not hard to make a USB drive bootable to DOS and flash from there

I've heard of quite a few people bricking boards with M-Flash, particularly on the p55 boards when they released.

[Raiderman]

Live and learn, I guess! UPS man delivered my new board today, so I am back in business! The ole laptop just doesnt cut it when it comes to hardware addiction :P