Quote Originally Posted by Daveburt714 View Post
My question is... Can I boot into safe/command prompt mode and flash the bios from a USB jump drive, or just flash it from a DOS prompt inside windows?
Try it, usually it works. You can use MSI Live Update 3 and you can get v1.1 flashed within Windows without anything other if that fails. I use a FDD always, never tried the USB method with this board. Too much of a headache and FDD method is very easy.

I am sure I've read somwhere by MSI that you need to first get into DOS environment by having the few necessary files on the USB/CD. Then type the relevant commands to flash using the flash utility as long as USB detection is enabled and your board can see it as a drive.

More info might be on the MSI site although I couldn't find it with a quick look.

Quote Originally Posted by Brains1 View Post
One stick of ram and now a useless TLB fix on my phenom. Gonna shoot the board. Maybe RMA... Or take the time to put a x2 in to this board and see if the ram works with that.
Flash v1.1 from MSI site as above. You don't need 1.22, it's literally crap.

Are you placing memory in DIMM slot 1 and 2?
Are you setting voltage to 2.2V or 2.3V?
Are you choosing dividers below 1:2?
Are you changing RAM timings manually to the rated spec?

You have to do this before you know if its compatible. So far based on what you've said the Phenom compatibility is the issue and not the board since the memory controller is within Phenom. Also if your RAM is not specified as compatible (tested) the it isn't MSI's fault. I learnt that too.