MSI X58 Platinum thread

[FabricioGS]

I really think this was a marketing thing. I flashed my board (non-SLI one) with a bios from the SLI version and really there were no changes at all. Could run the same settings I used before. Shame I don't have two nVida cards to test it, but S3rv3r did flashed (see page 2) and sucessfully used two 295 boards with no problems.

Talking about beta bios, I send an email to the MSI support, and they sent me the link for their FTP area. I'd like to share with you and remember, test it for your own risk:

ftp://jerryuser:cust2009@ftp.msi.com.tw/BIOS/7522/

OR:

ftp://ftp.msi.com.tw/BIOS/7522/
UserName: jerryuser
Password: cust2009

You'll notice there are far many versions then the old two on the official website (1.0 and 1.1).

Right now, while I'm posting this comment, there are those beta bioses:

A7522IMS.131 4096 KB 23/01/2009 14:07:00
A7522IMS.132 4096 KB 09/02/2009 14:13:00
A7522IMS.133 4096 KB 23/02/2008 14:36:00
A7522IMS.134 4096 KB 27/02/2008 14:43:00
A7522IMS.314 4096 KB 14/01/2009 14:49:00
A7522IMS.321 4096 KB 13/02/2009 15:23:00
A7522IMS.322 4096 KB 25/02/2008 13:33:00
A7522IMS.713 4096 KB 20/02/2009 13:44:00

I really have no idea what is the change log from one to another, but I after flashing my board several times I found that the first number after the dot "." ir related to the board version. So:

A7522IMS.1xx are related to the MSI X58 Platinum (non SLI) like mine
A7522IMS.3xx are related to the MSI X58 Platinum SLI
A7522IMS.7xx are related to the MSI X58 Pro

Yes, the Pro one. I discover that because on the first boot after I flashed the board, the MSI bios logo is showing "MSI Pro" and inside the bios had very few options compared to the other ones.

I'm also pretty much convinced the .4xx versions are for the MSI X58 Eclipse board.

As I said before, I could flash my board with both .1xx and .3xx versions and had no problems at all. But since I'm not using SLI I'm currently using the A7522IMS.134. I couldn't see any difference from the others versions nor new options on it an if they are testing so many bioses why we they don't release any new ones on their official website?

Anyway, I'll keep testing it.