FIX USB BIOS Flash Button Not Working MSI ASUS ASROCK GIGABYTE
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
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How to FIX USB BIOS Flash Button not working on MSI ASUS ASROCK GIGABYTE and others.
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The biggest problem with USB qflash or mflash or just USB BIOS flash back buttons in general is the USB stick not being read properly, this is mainly due to a few possible problems one being drive incompatibility, another being incorrect or wrong BIOS file and the other is the drive not being recognised.
On MSI motherboards this is commonly shown by the mflash LED flashing 3 times then nothing or a solid LED, no flashing or quick flashing.
So in this video i'll show you how to correctly prepare your USB flash drive or thumb drive so it has maximum chance of working first time!
WARNING THE FOLLOWING COULD LOSE YOUR DATA MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE DOING - IF YOU ARE NOT SURE, REACH OUT AND ASK.
Open an admin CMD prompt and type diskpart and hit enter
next type select disk and hit enter
choose your disk number (carefully) and hit enter
next type clean and hit enter
when done type convert mbr and hit enter
now format the drive in disk management choosing FAT32
this should give you a nice clean MBR drive for your BIOS flashing
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before my problem was that when pressing the bios button it blinked 3 times and did nothing, I made all the changes perfectly and now it does not blink 3 times or light any led, nothing happens when I press the bios button, could someone help me?
This is maybe easier to fix or at least advise if we can ask more questions and get direct answers, so feel free to join our Discord chat and we can go over it in more detail discord.gg/XtBTGQ6BDu
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Hi Mike! Holy crab, this video did the trick. I spent all night trying to flash the BIOS on an MSI B550-A Pro last night and could not get it to work. I thought I'd done everything: USB 2.0 stick, under 32 GB, FAT32, MBR, used Diskpart to clean it, multiple drives… nothing. The one thing in your video I hadn't seen was making sure the volume didn't have a name. Tried that this morning, and am finally getting the BIOS updated on this motherboard. You saved me from going through a stupid RMA! Thank you thank you thank you!
glad to hep - always nice to hear a success story
hehe! I just experienced the same frustration! ..but I thought it was the mbr-trick that did it.
I wasn't sure if the no-label trick was the solution since I did both..xD
Mike - here's a suggestion - I've seen this many times - in DISKPART you do a LIST DISK then "guess" or "hope you get lucky" in determining what disk # your flash is. Get it wrong and do a CLEAN and you have a bad "oops" moment. Easy fix - start w/o the drive you want to clean plugged in. Do a LIST DISK - note the disk #'s present. Plug in drive to be cleaned, give it a few seconds to be recognized then do a LIST DISK again (up arrow, enter). There will be a disk # now present that wasn't present before - that is guaranteed to be your target drive.
very good idea, thanks
Wanted to say thank you so much for this! The only USB drive I had kicking around was a small 2GB one that had clearly been through the trenches over the years. My new MSI board refused to recognize it properly with basic formatting. Your instructions fixed it, first go. Bios now updating away nicely! New to your channel and now a definite subscriber :)
Glad I could help! and welcome to the channel
Thanks for posting this video. It saved me from buying a new motherboard. I had given up all hope of saving it and then I came across your video and I watched it from end to end, following your step-by-step instructions as I was watching and the bios finally updated. Great stuff! Keep it up!
Glad I could help
I can't believe, that worked :) :). I have a 64GB USB stick. After following all the steps from the video, I created a 16GB (16384 MB) partition and put the renamed BIOS file in there. This is necessary because you can't use a USB that has more than 32GB. Hope this may help someone. Cheers!!!
Glad it helped
After 6 hours of troubleshooting and 3 usb sticks your guide finally made it work. You sir absolutely earned that subscribe. That guide was godsend to end my suffering xD
Glad we could help and welcome to the Channel :-)
If the stick isn't working, did it still blink? I'm +30min watching the blink😂
@@MoraKingdom This is maybe easier to fix or at least advise if we can ask more questions and get direct answers, so feel free to join our Discord chat and we can go over it in more detail discord.gg/gaeeDPw
Cannot overstate how much I wish I found this video first. Fixed my USB discovery issue first go.
glad it helped you
Just gonna leave this here for anyone who was searching like me:
IF you have a Gigabyte A320M-S2H board and you’re looking to update to F55, (Or any new version past F40) you NEED to update to version F32 beforehand as there was a major update to allow for better BIOS updates for all future versions. Hope this helps and this video is a big help with teaching you about partitioning :)
Just got an MSI MPG x570 Gaming Plus and was experiencing the CPU error indicator issue with a Ryzen 9 5900x, and I was finally able to update the BIOS after trying the second method in your tutorial. Thanks so much!
Glad I could help
I have wasted 400 quid on a new mobile, cpu and ram and am thinking of giving up and reinstalling the previous 7 year old mobo. I am sick and tired and just want the pile of shit to work.
Just one more person who wants to thank you for this video. The detail about converting to MBR finally got it working for me. Thanks for saving me from a crazy support ticket.
glad it helped Mark
Yet another great fix for a very prolific problem. Kudos to you and the fantastic “Mike’s Unboxing” Discord crew!
Thanks buddy appreciate it and hope you are on the mend?
I can't thank you enough! I've used this exact USB drive for flashing MSI bios before, and without your videos I would have no idea what the problem is. After using your diskpart method it worked like a charm. Thanks again.
You are welcome!
thank you! Thank You! THANK YOU! I've been trying to use the ASUS BIOS Flashback with no luck. I've been searching for a solution for hours. Converting the flash drive to MBR finally did the trick! One small detail all the instructions and UA-cam videos manage to have left out.
glad you got it working in the end
This literally just saved me hours. Also, very thorough explanation. Makes me confident while doing all this.
glad to help
Nice one Mike just managed to grab a ryzen 5600x at a proper price and b550 mag Tomahawk for my new build was a bit worried about the flashing bios until I saw this .....
Cool 😎 glad to help
I have toma
Very usefull, after trying different methods and "fixing" different errors for about 2h this is what finally made the flashback work
Glad it helped!
Normally I never post a comment but this guy saved my night haha, I was about to go insane! 6 usb's and it stop flashing and kept being just on the led. I used the command prompt steps including the no volume label and it worked! Thx!
Glad I could help
Man you're amazing, i had been looking for tips everywhere yet nothing fixed my issue. My B450 Tomahawk was bricked (idk if it's actually bricked or not), my screen all black, no input from any devices. Cleared CMOS with put out battery, it doesn't work for me.
I tried flash bios but my PC couldn't read my USB stick, tried about 10-15 times and still doesn't work. Until i tried your tips about disk clean and then converting to MBR. At the first my motherboard still couldn't detect it, but at 3rd times it works and my PC booted up normally. Thanks man, keep up your works
thanks levi, appreciate it
This was actually really really helpful. My USB was somehow broken and had many Partitions, now its working.
Glad to hear it
I'm in the same boat. Just got 2 new thumb drives and I'm gonna try his method with those
@@Tblue22 Let us know how you get on :-)
For everyone who seems to find no solution: It can be simple as that: DONT TURN ON YOUR PC BEFORE PUSHING THE FLASH BUTTON. Else the LED only will flash once and nothing will happen. Just turn the power supply to I (on) and then just press the flash button with properly flash drive. Maybe I can help someone out who tries it in the wrong way!
This was my issue ty bro 😂
@@s.luciano353 I really spent almost 2 days figuring this out. No problem 🫠
i have just spent 3 days and almost 4 hours everyday trying to figure out my problem… and this was it. I never leave youtube problems but thank you much
Thanks a ton, i feel like an idiot but at least im relieved
YOU ARE A FUCKING KING I LOVE U SO MUCH THANK YOU
Aaaaaah DOS, that takes me back. Thanks for another gret video Mike, given the popularity of BIOS flashing at the moment Im sure this will be of use to somebody :-)
We certainly hope so and it makes life easier for the experts on discord to point users in the direction of this video to help with boot failure diagnostics
Well my drive was in fat32 format. Now it's not. Not available at all. Your method broke my drive. Now I can't flash my bios, good stuff 👍
Sorry to hear that. i am more than willing to try and resolve the problem
It did the same to me....
Really starting to second guess his abilities here. How do I know that his BIOS flash button video is right? Why risk bricking my mobo when he can't even format a USB drive.
Well done! My problem seemed to be the flash drive needing to be formatted to default. Way more of a simple fix than sending it back to MSI for service (like their support line suggested).
Holy Crap man, you're my saviour! I have been trying to flashback my MSI board with 3 different drives with no success until I came up on your video, thank you!
Glad we could help :-)
your fix worked for me as well, Mike! thank you so much! fingers crossed that i can get my B-650P to post... 🤞🏿
glad it helped
Thank u sir, my pendrive was in gpt, and with your video finally can flash my bios, thanks for exist, you have my like and subs
Glad I could help and thanks for the like and sub
thanks for making this video, did not realise my usb stick was gpt (I got it brand new) until I watched your video. Serious lack of documentation on this crucial step in the motherboard manual when providing the steps on bios flashback. bios flashback went smoothly on my msi b550-a pro, took about 6 minutes.
Glad I could help! and glad you got it sorted in the end
OH MY GOD. I TRIED LIKE 50 OTHER VIDEOS AND THIS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT WORKED!!!!! all love from canada bossman! earned a sub
Thanks for the sub!
Thank you for this, i've been going through every USB stick i have and couldn't get any to work until i followed this
glad it helped
thanks a lot man u help me in big problem .. i was lost before i find ur video
Glad I could help
Thank you sooo soo much. I bought a 64gb stick for the initial process but it couldn't be formatted in FAT32 which I didn't know before. Your video helped me get through this process. Thanks!!!
Glad I could help
This helped me a lot. my mbr was broken on my drive. first time doing a bios qflash. My nerves very very tense this day. Thank you for the help. quality content.
You're welcome!
My headache is GONE!!! Thank you!!!! this makes a of sense. All of my usb drives were used on a linux machine which sets the partition table type to gpt. Changing it to msdos(MBR) fixed the issed. Thank you so much.
Glad it helped!
Damn mate I spent an hour trying to figure out what I did wrong and it was so simple. This is definitely working and absolutely recommended for Gigabyte B650M DS3H. Gained a follow and subscribe
thanks and glad ti was helpful
thank you so much for this, save me a lot of headache and RMAs being sent back. got a subscription from me! thanks again
Thanks for the sub!
This video just saved me. Hours and hours of trouble. I typed in GIGABYTE.BIN
I had bin capitalized so it wouldn't work
glad to help
Mike! Thank you so much for this video. I just purchased a rog strix z 690-f. Flashback was not working. Read the manual, and asus website. Turns out I needed a freshly cleaned USB drive. Thank you for all your content and advice! Saved me tons of time!
Glad it helped
Yep MBR formating saved the day! Took me 2h to do different stuff...
Thank you so much man. I tried so many thing but they did not work, but this video solved my problem. SUPER USEFULL
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You are HERO, savior... Can't thank u enough!
I thought my mobo is broken, but you fixed!
Glad I could help!
man!!! you are the best, I can't thank you enough, MBR worked instantly, been pulling my hair off with a z690 + 13700k for more than 3 hours formating USB as GPT...you got yourself a new subscriber, GOD bless you - for those who hate the command line, I did the formating on MacOS disk utility selecting MS-DOS FAT as the format and Scheme is Master Boot Record
Thanks for the sub and glad it was helpful
And this made it so my PC says unknown size when referring to my thumb drive. Another program says it only has 512 clusters, even though it's a 64GB stick. Thanks. Gotta go buy a brand new USB drive now. Amazing work. Keep it up.
you cant format a 64GB to fat32 unless you first create a smaller partition to resize it to less than 32GB
@@mikesunboxing Maybe put that on the vid?
Leaving this comment here, perhaps it will help. I could not get this to work with a 64gig flash drive. It would not let me convert to fat32, only exfat. I found an old 8gb usb stick, followed this tutorial and it worked like a champ. Appreciate your video!
Thanks for sharing
Thanks Mike! Late video! I like it!
Thanks buddy
this is so helpful thank you sir. i followed the asrock manual and they didn't even mentioned to partition the disk into mbr format. I followed everything on the manual and it didn't worked it until i saw your video. thanks again. really helpful
Glad I could help
this man is a life savior
this seriously worked, i never thought it would work. great video man.
Thanks for watching and commenting
You are the FU!@#NG MAN! I've been up all night depleting the internet of all information available, trying to qflash+ from 4 different flash drives and numerous different BIOS verions. This did it. This finally did it. May all the Gods bless you infinite times over.
wow thanks for the kind words
How long did yours take? My 550 just flashes over and over and over, tried this video to the same result step by step. And different drives.
Flashes for a few seconds, then the board lights up, and it flashes red faster forever. I'll let it sit overnight I guess
@@andrewb5894 Mine only took a couple minutes. I think it typically takes about 5 minutes, based on just seeing so many different videos about it.
Agreed around 5 minutes is normal
I'm having a similar issue but my light flashes red, the system turns on and it flashes faster for s few minutes, and then it stays solid red. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks for the video. Got a MSI X570s TOMAHAWK max wifi that doesnt wanna flash at all. apparently i need to flash the bios to support my 5900x altho it was advertised as working without doing this. Running out of options on this. Hope this works :D
Feel free to join our Discord chat if you need any help discord.gg/XtBTGQ6BDu
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Thank you. Fixed my Problem on an Asrock board.
Four hours of banging my head against a wall, found this, problem solved. Countless webpages and forums and this was the only time I saw this fix mentioned. For me it was on an ASROCK board from 2011. Plus, getting to relive the DOS glory days...priceless ;)
glad it helped you
Bless videos like these. turns out I was using an old 8gb usb that was previously formatted as a boot drive. Windows only saw it as a 256mb even after formatting..... I just grabbed a generic 1gb stick that had never been formatted for another use, gave it Fat 32 treatment and it worked. Updated in 2 minutes.
Thank you for this video,watched 50 videos ant nothing helped(selected file is not a proper bios),did this and it's updating my bios now.SUBBED
Glad it helped
Thanks very much for this - I was struggling to get the USB to recognise for ages and tried everything but the thing that did it for me was not giving it a volume label!
You saved my life. Thank you. I was about to send the motherboard back to the shop since the flash button process seemed to not recognize my usb drive hahah
glad it helped
Man you just saved my life! I was getting desperate! Quick trick, great explanation and it worked straight away! I've been in this agony for hours! Thank you, really!
thanks, have a great weekend
Great video! Using Diskpart to format the drive definitely solved mine with an Asrock TRX40 Creative. Thanks!
Great to hear!
You’re probably won’t read this but you’re a fuxking legend
Thanks buddy
Super smashed that sub button, you did the trick on my MSI b450m gaming plus. I can't thank you enough.
Glad we could help and welcome to the Channel :-)
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BEWARE!!!!! THE NEWEST BIOS UPDATE FOR EDGE WIFI DDR4 (version 7D31v19) did NOT work for me. Instead version 7D31v18 was recognized and it now boots with my 13th gen
thanks for the info
This really helped as any other video before. I was having problem with my usb. It's weird because i used same usb some days ago without any inconvenience but.. maybe it was damaged after create a usb bootable with windows 10.. anyways, thank you very much dude!
bless you
Great video, thanks Mike.
Thanks buddy appreciate it any flashing due in your setup?
Wow thank you so much. I’ve been looking for a solution for about 4 hours now and finally this fixed it and I could install the bios firmware.
Glad I could help
Thanks man. Been saving for a while and got my new pc parts all together, just waiting on a cpu. Been putting off using the bios flashback as I am not the luckiest person around and I am kind of nervous lol. Just watched your guide and went through the steps to prepare my usb stick and feel more confident of it working now. One thing I have done is use a usb with an indicator light on it. Being able to see the light flashing when the data is being read might be handy when installing the bios.😀
Glad I could help
@@mikesunboxingThanks mate!
As a long time ASUS user & since their USB BIOS FlashBack (board only, 1 touch) of 2012, Even though their early manuals were not so clear. You do need to use the "white" USB. (something to do w/ being legacy USB-2.0 & priority boot) & then a proper BIOS file name specific to that board. Or it grabs it from DVD if inserted. In my experiences, ASUS in EZ-Flash mode doesn't allow older roll back but it will in USB flashback when needed.
If motherboard is still being finicky, I look to use a quality USB-2.0 of a smaller size (4-8g) & on 1st USB-2.0 slot if none specific for your flashback. Make sure to find 1 w/ active LED indicator. This will help.
Just flashed the MSI B550 carbon wifi bios with this method, flashback and usb pendrive 16 gb 2.0! No problem!
Glad it helped :-)
@@mikesunboxing Thank you sir!
I’m not sure if this is something I did stupid, because I learn as I go with PCs on UA-cam. This video didn’t work, however I stopped doing what you suggested in this video and the other for the update file. This last time I did not change the file name to “MSI.ROM” and left it as what’s downloaded from the website. That finally worked. Before it would not show anything other than the volume information and would not recognize the file. MSI B550 Gaming Edge Wi-Fi board with Ryzen 9 5950X.
however you got there, at least it worked out in the end.
After 2h of hard battle with my motherboard, i was about to burn it. Then I found your video, now my bios is flashing and I want to marry you.
lol, hope it all goes to plan, the flash that is, not our marriage ❤️
I appreciate the suggestions and details, it sure helped me figure out what I was doing wrong! Great video
After finishing my pc build this worked thank you. You helped me save so much money and time
glad to help
Thank you so much! You just saved me from a mental breakdown :D Awesome work and keep it up :)
lol glad to help
This solved my problem!! A huge thank you!
You can also check in disk management if your drive is already in MBR format
good point
Excellent! Did save my day! Thank you!
Wow it worked i have a gigabyte mother and my usb was not recognised by my bios now its working ❤
Glad to hear that!
Thank you so much. Most help-full video on this problem on the internet!!! Period... I did find a warning about this from one vendor, but so so easy to overlook...
Glad it helped!
This video saved my new motherboard! Thank you!
Glad I could help!
THANK YOU! this worked. thought I bricked my brand new asus board
glad to help
Omg this literally did the trick. Thanks a lot dude!
Glad it helped!
You Sir, are a steely eye missile man. Worked a treat
Hi Mike, you saved my Day!
After this Throubleshooting, my new GBT Board works perfectly with the new i5-13600K
Thank you very much and best Regards from Germany
You are welcome!
Just kidding: If I put select disk 0 and clean in Windows system shuts down automatically? Thank you for this how-to, Mike & Kath. I use "diskpart" to convert SSD's and HDD's to GPT when I'm installing the O.S.
Ha ha you are going the opposite direction than the bios lot - thanks for watching
OMG dude i love you, in italy right now is 1:40am and im tryimng to update the bios of my mobo since 3:15 pm and now it`s finally working, i was literally crying couse i tought i broke the mobo or sum, thank you very much
You are most welcome! Glad you got it working :-)
Thanks! actually really useful.
Glad it helped!
Thank you
Thanks for watching
YOU ARE A GOD. SOLVE MY PROBLEM WITH THIS VIDEO AND AFTER I NEEDED TO CLEAN THE MBR OF THE PENDRIVE
glad to help
Hi Mike, I tried this, along with the correct method for my B550-F motherboard but I'm still getting that solid green light.
This is maybe easier to fix or at least advise if we can ask more questions and get direct answers, so feel free to join our Discord chat and we can go over it in more detail discord.gg/gaeeDPw
I hate diskpart.. I'm lazy..Should be a nice GUI with 3 button : Select, clean and convert..
There is a few gui versions out there that do the same thing but I thought that would involve downloading exe files from slightly dubious places and that could open a whole new can of worms
@@mikesunboxing 30 years ago, when dos was the thing, I probably would have written a simple batch file to automate the process. I had to deal with diskpart when experimenting with hackintosh. Found some online, but as you said, not trusty or paid for the convert function! I guess they did it on purpose knowing I was looking for that exact purpose 🙄
Thank you so much from egypt , you rock man , mbr trick fixed it for me.
thanks for letting me know
Helped me right out! Thanks man you got a sub
thanks appreciate it
NICE! Thanks dude. WORKED!!
You're welcome!
Legend, I was stuck on a solid red light and had no idea why. Its because I did not convert to mbr.
Flashed bios on x570 tomahawk. With and 5900x (New build)
nothing works- already installed into case.. nothing turns on- not even fans - what a mess;(
Great videos- appreciate you content.
Hope it helps and you get up and running
@@mikesunboxing Did this fix your issue? I am still stuck after this. x570 tomahawk and 5600X (New build- first PC)
@@williamfrey8709 This is maybe easier to fix or at least advise if we can ask more questions and get direct answers, so feel free to join our Discord chat and we can go over it in more detail discord.gg/gaeeDPw
thank you thank you thank youuu i was thinking of returning my motherboard but ur video saved me
glad to help
Thank you for your information. You saved my life.
Was getting solid red light on this board.
Formatting to mbr did the trick! 🙌🏼
Great to hear!
When I had my computer built I have two data drives were set up as 'hot swappable'. I want to change them to 'non-hot swappable.
My motherboard has the 'quick setup' and the 'easy' setup which gives you more control to the settings.
The motherboard was put in about 2 months ago and it is:
Board: ASRock Z690 Steel Legend
I don't want to go digging around and mess something up.
it won't make any difference to windows whichever way it is set in the bios from what i have found
Thanks that actually helped me. I also created a 32gb partition when using the windows disk part since I had a 64gb drive so I don’t have to go and buy another flash drive
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This method is the only one if you want to make it. Thanks 👍
You're welcome 😊