Re: msi mother board update

When it comes to MSI, make sure you only use the LiveUpdate program provided
by MSI. Which you download and install, and then run. It will scan your
system for MSI-hardware and bring up the browser to show you what is more
up-to-date then what you already have (as far as drivers go). This way it
knows exactly what MSI hardware you have installed in your system, like
Mainboard, Video card, and along with those comes the drivers of each. Now
only Mainboards or Motherboards (which ever u call it, it's the same thing)
have BIOS "Flash" updates, at least as far as the MSI site is concerned.
Again this is NOT a driver, but a motherboard BIOS update which, when run,
flashes (or updates) the BIOS ROM chip. DO NOT do this process unless
installing a new processor that your motherboard doesn't already accept.
Again same as what "DaveJ" explained. But just warning you, Flash updates are
NOT drivers. And should only be performed by a skilled IT Technician, just to
be on the safe side. If u flash your bios and for some reason or another it's
either the wrong one, or doesn't flash correctly. When you goto reboot, your
system will cease to funtion due to the fact that the bios may have been
improperly updated and no longer works. Now................drivers will show
up as either "Chipset Drivers", "Video" or "Display Drivers" or "Sound
Drivers" etc. But never use a Bios, or Flash update if you not sure what it
is or what it does. That warning screen comes up for a reason. So again if u
are seeing that, you're not downloading drivers. Do not use bios flash
updates!!!



"Marty" wrote:

> There is a new driver for the board but after I download it, I get the bios
> flash warning. I have a 865pe neo 2 ms 6728 board and it still has the
> origianl p4 processor. I really dont think I need to flash unless its
> required for the driver update.
> "DaveJ" <DaveJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:026A25FD-9A7E-4A3E-B69B-49017800FD61@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > MSI have a bunch of different types of update : if you are looking to
> > update
> > a driver it should just be a matter of downloading and installing the
> > driver
> > update. Most driver updates are relatively easily reversible, by
> > re-installing the previous version. I say "most" because poorly tested
> > driver
> > updates can disable devices in some configurations - nevertheless, there
> > is
> > normally a way to reverse a driver update. Updating the BIOS is not the
> > same
> > at all and should only be done if you are experiencing the types of
> > problems
> > that the BIOS fix was specifically designed to resolve - why, because
> > flashing a BIOS involves some risk that the process will fail part way
> > through and that could disable your means of restoring the original BIOS
> > by
> > no longer letteing you communicate with the devices you need to flash the
> > BIOS (ie: you may no longer be able to boot at all)!! Most BIOS flash
> > utilities first invole a step of making a backup of your existing BIOS (do
> > not skip that step, it helps you get back if the new BIOS does unexpected
> > things which do NOT disable your means of flashing back to the older
> > version). Most BIOS flashing works properly as intended. Many are only
> > needed if you want to use a newer faster processor that the ones for which
> > the motherboard was originally designed, or if a conflict is found with a
> > specific add-in card of some type or other. So in most cases you do not
> > need
> > to flash the BIOS to the latest version, unless it specifically addresses
> > a
> > problem you need to resolve.
> > DaveJ
> >
> > "Marty" wrote:
> >
> >> I have a new driver for my msi card on their website and I went to
> >> install
> >> it and it wanted to flash the bios and told me not to mess with it if I
> >> didn't know what I was doing so how do I update the driver without the
> >> flash
> >> or what precautions should I take with flashing of the bios.
> >> Marty
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
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