If it stops blinking after ~10s something went wrong. I found out the hard way that its working only with a USB2-Sticks on my B550 board! Please upvote this so others can see it and don't waste half a day reading in forums and reddit like I did!
I almost had a heart attack when it actually finally worked thank you. For other people, here are some things that confused me 1: YES, you CAN keep all other components plugged in during this process 2. You DO NOT power on the pc first, you keep it off while pressing the button 3. I like beeg chees borgor
Thanks for answering my singular question. I was wondering if GPU, RAM, CPU, and any other add in cards needed to be removed from the system to use this.
Success! I did this with CPU (Ryzen 5 5600G) and ram installed. Prior to this there was no image on my monitor, and my EZ debug "CPU" light was lit on my MSI B550 M Bazooka Mobo. After following this guide, everything worked. Hope this helps someone else in my situation!
Question: Most of MSI mobo isn't compatible on 3rd gen Ryzens right of the box right? So you need to do this first? Also, is it really safe to plug all your components in and then start flashing?
@@UrlOn2Wheels Yeah its not like they have anything to do with flashing the bios, but make sure the mobo you do choose has the bios flashback feature also a quite a few motherboards of msi ship with 3rd gen compatibility out of the box, just do some more research about the motherboard and you should be fine.
Gonna do this once Ryzen 3700X drops in a few weeks. EDIT: Successfully flashed BIOS via this method on my *MSI B450M Mortar.* Worked like a charm, even with RAM, CPU installed. Flashdrive: 32GB USB 3.0 (FAT32) BIOS ver I used: 7B89v17. 3700X is a beast!
that's pretty interesting. not having to connect a CPU or GPU let alone a computer screen or any external hardware to put on updated BIOS. this really saved me the trouble.
@@pegasus_2137 mbr allows your usb to be a boot drive, to change it: open cmd as admin, type: diskpart list disk (all your drives will pop up) sel dis (# assigned to your usb) CLEAN convert mbr pretty much any modern usb should have the capability to do this, and to check to make sure it is in MBR type "list disk" again and if the usb has an asterisk beside it (to the left) your good
@@justinc2633 Thanks, just tried it. Edit: But after that, I can't paste the bios onto it, I'll look for a fix. Edit 2: You have to type "create partition primary" to have it working. Edit 3, so people don't have to scroll down: Then you need to format again.
I came here to help you all after seeking help to flash BIOS too... I bought a MPG X570 Carbon Wifi to use with Ryzen 5600G which couldn't POST, showing CPU led on on EZ DEBUG. I've followed all the instructions on the video, read tons of comments here, Reddit, random tech sites, and the only way I could flash BIOS to the current latest version (7B93v1H) in my case, was to leave the mobo with only the power cables (ATX 24-pin and both ATX 12+4-pin attached onto the mobo. Then I followed to use a FAT32 formatted 2Gb stickdrive I have here with the latest ROM renamed to MSI.ROM, plugged into the right USB2.0 slot and and pushed the magic Flash BIOS button. I've waited for around 5 minutes as reported until the Flash BIOS red led stop blinking, then after I hard power cycled it. After it took couple minutes to show something on screen, blinking randomly some leds on EZ DEBUG (omfg I swear I've bricked the mobo lol) and then it successully went into BIOS screen - hooray!! I failed on many attempts, such as trying on different USB2.0 sticks varying from 32Gb to this 2Gb I've used...I utterly decided to quit, until I tried the last time ripping all the peripherals, and boom! I made it! So whoever is trying to make it, even if you read people succeeding they could flash with CPU/RAM/GPU, I recommend trying remove everything as I said above. Good luck!
I did this with a new Z690 Tomahawk wifi Ddr5 , as it needed updating for an intel 13th gen i7 13700k. The pc was a new build so board was bare except for power connections. The flash seemed to be successful, usb stick would rapidly flash for 5 mins. Then board would turn of then back on. After the reboot the red Cpu light would come on, on the motherboard & stay on. I kept thinking I had an error in the flash. But the flash was fine, it was lit simply because no cpu was connected. That does make sense when you think about it. But no one explains this anywhere, hope this helps another person
B450 MORTAR TITANIUM: There is no red LED, it is white and near the corner. Tried four or five USB drives, none worked. Then I remembered having an old 512MB USB and this worked. There should really be better compatibility with USB drives from this decade. Use the smallest USB drive you can find. 64GB, 32GB, 8GB are too big. I didn't check 4GB, I used 512MB. Format the drive as FAT32. Copy the BIOS files to the drive and rename it MSI.ROM. You do not power up the board, you just insert the USB (lowest port in corner by button), press button, board will power itself up. White LED near the back will start flashing repeatedly. If it blinks only three times, it didn't work. It should continue blinking steadily and if the USB drive has an indicator, it will blink too. The row of LEDs beneath the front of the board will light up white. After the flashing is complete, the white LED in the back stops (turns off) and the front LEDs beneath the board turn red. Hope this helps. Instructions in the video are terrible.
oh my god oh my god oh my god this just saved my bacon! i was being a complete dunce and kept trying to press the button while the mobo was powered on, i didn’t realize the board had to be OFF completely before you could press the flash button. thank you MSI for posting this!!!
THIS! Worked for me. Purchased msi b450 and ryzen 3600x. Got red cpu led and nothing worked no screen etc. Did this, press flash button, now I can see the screen and I can install Windows :)
You DONT NEED USB 2.0, Just CONVERT THE USB TO MBR FROM GPT AND MAKE SURE IT IS FAT32, then proceed. Worked for me with CPU, RAM and NVME INSTALLED. Running 5700G, AL-Hamdallah it is Working Fine.
I have the same board.. :) Congratulations. Please, did your PSU shutdown after the BIOS Flashback diode stopped blinking. Since mine stopped blinking, but the usb is still blinking, EZ debug LED is still red and I can hear the power suply still running after like 30mins. Is it ok? I am now afraid to just turn it off.
@Frostek First i tried it like in the Video without Ram Cpu and Gpu and i thought it would work but it didn't. So i tried with CPU, Ram, Gpu again and it worked i could literally see the update cause my Monitor was blinking. 1.Put the Usb stick in the slot next to the button. 2.Click on the button (Pc will start after 5-10 Seconds) 3.Wait until your Pc turns itself off and on again. Done
@@josefvalihrach4705 Had the problem too while updating my Bios. i just turned it off and took the Cmos out for 2 minutes after that i started it again with my whole equip and it worked.
@@NediToTheYak Thank you very much. Now it works for me too. But the starts and restards are a little weird (After power on, The EZ debug LED is CPU red for like two seconds, then it kinda restarts, cycles through other LEDs and finaly posts). Also in bios "save and exit" does not exit the bios and "discard and restart" restarts right back to BIOS without me touching any key. Had to turn off the PSU. Very beta BIOS I guess but I am still happy that it works. :) Did you use the stock cooler? I had to unscrew and change the orientation ofbthe plastic fan on top of the AMD Wraith spire cooler to access both of the ram slots and it is still very tight.
@@josefvalihrach4705 Yeah the Bios seems a bit buggy but it works. I use the Be quiet Bk009 cooler. i just checked some Benchmarks from the AMD boxed coolers but i wasnt that much impressed
Successfully flashed BIOS via this method on my *MSI B450M Mortar.* Worked like a charm, even with RAM, CPU installed. Flashdrive: 32GB USB 3.0 (FAT32) BIOS ver I used: 7B89v17.
And this is why some B450 boards are valid options for me. I can update the BIOS without a compatible CPU similar to my current and previous motherboards (now only the flagships/high end boards have it. Unlike my dirt cheap and mid range H87 and Z97 boards from the same manufacturer)
So..when the MSI site says you need to use a specific browser for best results, you'd better believe it. I bought 4 different usb sticks on top of the 8 or so I had lying around. I tried downloading multiple versions of the bios. The very first time I tried downloading with Edge browser instead of Firefox, it worked like a charm. I used a 16GB Sandisk Cruiser Glide USB2 stick.
Hello, thanks so much I got my usb from mac to work! I will like this so hopefully all the other mac os users will see: Follow his instructions and make sure you only include the file with .101 in the usb, nothing else! (rename it to MSI.ROM of course) That is how I got mine to work
Brett I have a tomahawk , so it’s probably different if u have a different mobo. Anyways that should be the right file , and make sure the usb is “master boot and fat32”
Formatted my old 4GB flash drive to FAT32 in windows, copied the BIOS file to the drive, renamed it MSI.ROM _ Plugged in CPU 1 and the ATX connector, Z490 Ace motherboard was on a table with no CPU, powered on the PSU, plugged the drive into the slot marked flash bios, pressed the flash bios button, led blinked for about 5 minutes, then done. My case comes tomorrow, but I'm confident it worked as it should. Did enjoy watching the motherboard light up though.
thank you for this tutorial that allowed me to flash the mortar max I bought a few days ago without having to swap the other components because I have not yet received the box of the pc
Success!! I have an MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI motherboard and an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU. Updating the BIOS using a flash drive formatted as FAT32 worked!!! Was super nervous about if it'd brick it but it didn't!
Thank You!!! You are a PC Tech. GOD! You fixed my issue even after a PC technician from a computer store told me my motherboard was bricked and I needed to buy another motherboard. You saved me $150.00.... TY TY TY!!!!!! :) I'm buying MSI products from now on!!!!!
@MSI, could you please publish what the Flashback+ LED flashing error codes mean? Would help a lot in debugging... something like: flash sequence 1: FAT32 partition not found flash sequence 2: BIOS file not found flash sequence 3: BIOS file not valid flash sequence 4: flashing process beginning etc...
Yep. Flashing right now, got stuck in 2 flashes and off. Somehow MB ate rom file from the drive. It was wiped. I know i dragged file to usb stick and then renamed it, but stick was empty after 1st try. 2nd try is probably ok, blinking now very fast.
Used this method on the new b550 mpg itx motherboard and worked like a charm. The desktop update failed so had to do this. Key note... Make sure you give it a whole 5 minutes for the flashing to finish and it will restart by itself
@@fortnitefunnyguyman6077 Yeah 5 of their mobos support it. You could go with either of them depending on your needs and budget. (I'm getting the B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC since I need wifi either way and the extra vram is also nice)
Thank you MSI for having this feature! When i failed my bios update through M-flash and got black screen i almost lost my mind. But this button helped me out to recover my bios.
OMG! You’re a legend!! You have no idea how much you save me. First, I tried the m-flash thing in bios to update my bios to the latest but right after I click the m-flash thing my screen blacked out. At this moment I knew I fucked up. I tried to redeem myself by thinking it will work after I reset the pc but fcuking holy satan I heard some bad noise from the motherboard and still black screen. I totally screwed tho I didn’t give up coz what else can I do. then searching for more info in web then I saw this flash button behind the cpu then here I am. I follow from renaming msi.rom and converting the usb to mtr something. Then took the flash bios button and damn it really works. Woohoo!! 🥳 I feel pro at this moment. ☺️☺️☺️ thank you master. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 PS. On msi mortar titanium led light is white. All my components are attached when I did the flash bios button thing. 🙂
I just built my PC and my i6 13700k is not working out of the box aside from the smart light and the BIOs update on my z790 carbon wifi msi board, how do you roll back to an older version? just got to get a usb with an older update or something?
Thank you for posting this! I found this online instead of calling in or creating a support ticket, and it made recovering my BIOS easy. The step about renaming the file isn't included in the motherboard documentation that ships in the box I don't think, but this video got me all the way back to a fully working system without having to engage MSI support lines at all. It saved my bacon today!
why is this video so half assed compared to the M-flash one? this one seems way more important considering it will be needed if you need to update BIOS to use newer CPUs
hi ive just put my ryzen 5600x into a msi x570 unify retail and it wont power up everything is connected properly checked over 10 bilion timies, ive tried to update the bis also still cant power it up (it has power i just get the red light flash near ram memmories help
I have the same set up as urs. Same thing happened to my pc as well, I just get off the cpu fan or loose some motherboard screws to the pc case, then it can turn on now
Hey I still have problems and need help. I have the MSI b450 Gaming Plus and a AMD ryzen 5 3600. We first tried putting all in and starting it but no signal on the screen. After much research we came to the conclusion that we need a new bios. But with this flashing method , the red light blinks 2 times and then just keeps glowing. We let it in like 10 minutes but still glowing. Scrolled through the comments and some had the same problems but his solution was checking the bios and noticing he had the wrong bios but we checked like 3 times and we're pretty sure we have the right one. The USB-Stick ist FAT32. Someone help?
Finally got it to work. Found a reddit post and tried lots of things. What finally worked was formating a 8gb USB-Stick to "non-bootable" and then putting the bios and and renaming it.
For anyone who thinks this doesn't work, unplug all components first (cpu, gpu, and ram), then do what the video says then after auto reset plug all components back in. Worked for my MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max, hope it helps!
Got it working after some time. Using a z690 Tomahawk DDR4 Wifi. Tried 3 USB sticks, nothing worked, the red led stayed on instead of blinking. What worked for me: Usb 2.0 - 8GB. Formatted with Rufus (a tool on windows) to MBR and Fat32. Selected not bootable in Rufus. After that, reformatted it in Windows, Fat32 again, drive name without blanks, 4096 bytes cluster size. Downloaded the second most recent BIOS again (figured maybe the most recent is broken). extracted the bios file and renamed it to MSI.ROM Copied the file to the root of the usb stick. Cut the power of the Mainboard. Put Usb Stick in flash usb port. connected power again. Pressed the flash button (pc was turned off). The led flashes a couple of times and then the pc turns on. If it does not turn on or the led stays red without flashing: it's not working. My cpu and everything else except GPU was connected. No other usb deviced connected.
I did step by step all ur info but the red light flashed 3 times and nothin happen. It won t reboot by it self, and the light stay on red for hours. I have my cpu and gpu out. Some help please?
And what do I do if it’s still blinking 12 hours later? 3 USB sticks, 2 computers to format said stocks and 3 days of researching support topics later my new tomahawk b550 still won’t boot. Very disappointed especially in the very fried manual with no what to do when the motherboard f***s up....
У кого не выходит обновить, т.е не идет прошивка с флешки, потому что она у вас как загрузочная скорее всего, отформатируйте ее через Rufus, выберите метод загрузки "незагрузочный образ" и полное форматирование , создание всяких меток тоже убрал . Изначально пытаясь обновить, у меня лампочка 3 раза мигала и на этом все.. Раньше я винду с нее ставил и видимо биос не хочет обновляться с загрузочной флешки) обновлял на MSI B450 A PRO
Is this the Clear CMOS Button? Because i bought the MSI X470 Gaming PLUS wich does not have such a Flash BIOS Button on the rear, just the Clear CMOS on board. Is there a possibilitiy for updating the BIOS with this board with out an old CPU?
Also if it stops blinking after 10 seconds and didn't work... My board needed the usb drive to be formatted in ntfs format, not fat32. It came with an older bios version in ntfs so after I tried and failed to update the bios per instructions I tried again in ntfs format and no problem.
Is your board a z690 Edge Wifi by chance? You are the first person to comment that the NTFS formatted usb drive (that I'm assuming came with the MSI MB) also worked. I used the drive it came with and updated the bios successfully using the NTFS format as well.
Hi, I have a b450m Mortar. I have copy the Bios file in a FAT32 USB and i have renamed to MSI.ROM. When I try to install de bios, the light blinks slowly and then the light stays on, with no blinks. I have waited several minutes, but nothing happends. Please, anyone knows what can I do? Thanks
I have the same mobo, and flashed BIOS successfully via this method. Which BIOS version are you trying? Have you inserted the flashdrive in the right flashback+ USB port? Refer to the manual if you wanna know this.
@@AnalogFoundry Hi. First, thanks for the help. I am trying to install the 7B89v19 (2019-07-30). I've connected the USB to the port near the flash button (I have tried with both). Maybe is an USB problem, I tried with a SD reader USB. This afternoon I'll try with an USB pendrive
So you do have to extract the file from the zip once you download it and then rename it MSI.ROM. That might explain why I ways have the CPU debug light and can't boot.
I assume since you're flashing a motherboard BIOS you know how to work a PC but make sure you have your file extensions turned on windows otherwise you're going to end up with MSI.ROM.101
Hello people, i have followed this guide for my MSI B550 Tomahawk, but the led just keeps flashing and doesnt stop. Any ideas whats the problem here? I just wanna use my ryzen 5 5600x :(
Thought i repost this helped some poeple in another vid 1st. I needed a usb 3.0 8gb is what I’m using, my usb 2.0 would not work. 2nd. Just Format the drive into fat32 NO I DID NOT NEED TO MAKE IT MBR like everyone else im on win7 and win10 i did this yesterday works fine....but u can try if needed 3rd. Now we have the Usb3.0 formatted to fat32 just slide your bios file into the usb then rename it MSI.ROM, make sure you Move the Right file over not the .txt file 4th. Once renamed to MSI.ROM Now you must setup you motherboard, all I did was plugged in was the 24pin for the motherboard, and an 8 pin, or 4pin (depending on your motherboard) for my cpu power, no I did not have my processor in, or my hard drives. OR you can it also worked for me with processor and hard drive in after testing... although i needed to Flick my psu on and off for it to realize it was updated, but Still Worked! 5th. Then hit you bios flashback button it blinks red for maybe 5-10 minutes then the red light stops blinking, and that means it’s finished your motherboard should automatically restart after it stops blinking, but for me it did not restart the first time i updated my bios so i just waited for it to COMPLETELY STOP BLINKING then I turned my motherboard off and on, and its the same thing just a manual restart had worked. Hope this helps u figure it out Only the Motherboard Power, and CPU power, was needed for me when doing this literally do not know why it didnt like my old Usb 2.0 so I’m hoping that this is the issue your running into
Thank you! This worked for me. Tried 7 older drives, and either the update light wouldn't turn off, or it would turn off after 10-20 sec. but with my newest 32GB drive it worked like charm, and rebooted correctly after the update!
For anyone having dramas (I was getting 3 red flashes). Try another USB drive. Had to try 3 different ones for it to work.. didn’t seem to have anything to do with size. (The one ended up working was 32gb)
I've tried a 32gb and a 120mb. The 32gb flashes 3 times and then nothing. The 120mb flashes twice and then the light stays on. If this is the type of drama I can expect from an MSI board I'm sending it back.
Just an FYI. A friend of mine recently purchased an MSI Bazooka B550m board. He could not get this process to work at all. He purchased the mobo and a Ryzen 5600G for a new build. He removed the DIMMS and CPU and still could not get this process to work. Turns out that he had this board pretty much installed and hooked up to the front panel connector. I advised him to remove pretty much all the other cables except for the ATX12V and CPU Power as shown in the video. Once he had the board with just the PSU connections, this process worked. So there must be some sort of circuitry or electrical connection which does NOT allow the flash button to work if the Front Panel connector cables are connected.
This saved my bacon! Pc worked fine after being put together, booted great. While I was waiting for the Windows 10 media Creation Tool to finish I played with the BIOS a bit. Set my RAM to 3200 and thats when I got the solid red CPU LED and it didn't boot. Finished the Windows 10 Media Creation tool process, copied the latest BIOS update to the same USB drive, renamed it, popped it in and flashed within about 4 minutes. Now I have a working system again! Such a handy feature! I'm unsure if clearing the CMOS with the jumper would have helped but oddly enough I can't locate a jumper to clear it anyway....so this worked really well!
Actually, the mobo is designed to reset the CMOS settings, if the computer fails to boot 5 times in a row. Hard-crashing it (power button, hold) will make it work faster. I had the same issue with the RAM speeds (except 3000 MHz, and it worked at 2933 with 2 slots, but it crashed with 4 slots filled, so I needed to drop the speed to 2733 MHz -- non-QVL RAM, unfortunately)
I was also experiencing a red solid light after about 5 or 6 blinks. In the end the only thing that worked for me was using an 8GB USB 2.0, formatted to FAT32 with MBR partition. USB 3 drives, anything over 8GB and GPT led to a solid red light.
Okay so, I tried updating my BIOS using Dragon center and I really regret it. My PC rebooted but with the CPU light (EZ Debug LED) turned on. It wasn't there before, so I knew there was a problem. Turns out, the BIOS update failed. Now to sum it up, my PC turns on but there is no display. To fix it, you need to have a bootable drive (you can just use Rufus), and of course, the flash bios button in your motherboard. 1) Extract the BIOS file to your bootable drive 2) Rename the BIOS file to "MSI.ROM" (you may delete the txt document as it's not needed anyway). 3) Ensure that your motherboard has its power supply connected (I didn't remove anything in my PC like the SSD, RAM, etc... so it should be fine) 4) Connect the bootable drive in the USB port of your mobo under the flash bios button. 5) You won't turn on the PC or anything. Once the bootable drive is connected, wait for 5 secs and press the Flash BIOS button until red blinking lights appear. The lights should stay for awhile as that would mean that the BIOS is being updated. 6) Your PC should automatically boot up indicating that the update was successful. My PC is working fine now. I'm running a Ryzen 3900x on an MSI x570 Gaming Edge Wi-Fi.
Hey I'm getting the same problem , when i hard reset bios by clearing cmos it shows display but suddenly after running 2-4 hours the screen crash and shows no signal but cpu is on and kbm doesn't respond and the cpu dont turn of by pressing power button. Can any of you help?
I bricked my board MSI B450m Pro M2-Max not sure that supports the flashback. I have few questions @msi 1. Does It have this feature? 2. Do I flash older bios? 3. Do I have to take CPU? or I can leave it assembled?
this worked! for me it was formatting the drive to MBR fat 32 that got it working on a very old usb - my newer USB 3 drive didn't work - did it with everything connected still (even k&m etc). so glad to not have to waste resources and time on an insurance claim.
Great tutorial! With your help I seemed to have updated my MSI B550 Gaming Carbon Wifi to the latest bios for my 5600x cpu, but im still getting the same issue i had before bios update where the hardware looks on but won't boot to input to my monitor and my keyboard/mouse are not working either. The mouse rgb will flick on for a second then turn off so I don't think the usb ports are the issue. Thanks for the help!
@@drdrill5153 I didn't have any other compatible chips for the b550 so I had to take it to Micro Center where they were able to put in an older, already compatible cpu in the mobo to do more bios updates. Not exactly sure what they did but it worked. Seems like just flashing the bios alone with a USB isn't enough.
Will try this today, I have an B550 Gaming Edge Wifi and a ryzen 5600x and when i start it, It don't have any Signal, only a ez debug led indicator (boot led one). I wish that is only a BIOS version problem 😬😬
@@calebonner8782 I managed to get it running, problem for me seemed to be the initial Bios Version along with my RAM, I used 3600MHZ initially, borrowed my brothers 3200MHz Module, boots straight up, then chose the XMP2 Profile in Bios, changed to my 3600MHz RAM and workes since like a charm :) hope I could help you!
Hey I'm getting the same problem , when i hard reset bios by clearing cmos it shows display but suddenly after running 2-4 hours the screen crash and shows no signal but cpu is on and kbm doesn't respond and the cpu dont turn of by pressing power button. Can any of you help?
Let's say I bought a MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC, for example, to use with a AMD Ryzen 3700X. Can I immediately put in the CPU, plug everything in, start up the PC and play? My question is: (1) Can I use this board from right *OUT OF THE BOX* with the CPU? (2) Can I use the Flash BIOS Button *AFTER* the CPU and heatsink are already on? or (3) Does the Flash BIOS button have to be used *BEFORE* anything else if I'm using Ryzen 3000 series?
I did everything shown in the video but the light just flashed 3 times ........i downloaded a folder from the msi site and not a file, does that make any difference??? (ryzen 5 3600, b450 gaming pro carbon ac)
i have the same issue with that board, just three flashes and then a permanent orange light..its a new board, maybe it comes with the last update? is your board new?
I'm pairing a [Ryzen 7 3700x] with an MSI [B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC]. Should I flash the BIOS first (just PSU+MOBO connected) before completing the assembly of my PC? After this step, should I be safe to boot with my Windows installer USB connected?
Finally got my b450 tomahawk running. I used the latest bios v19 I think it was and when I flashed the flashback led blinked but not my usb stick, but after a couple minutes the usb started blinking and the process started. After it had finished and had stuck everything back in, I had a ram led appear when I booted. I moved the ram into the first ram slot and powered the pc on and off a few times and it worked!
Bro I need help I was messing around trying to get the flash bios to download and eventually it flashed really fast for abit and rebooted my system but now my system isn't outputting a signal to the monitor any ideas?
Means you have downloaded the wrong bios for your mobo. Be sure to go to the website look up your mobo, go to support tab and down 'll pad it from there
@@_Mac_86 itcwont work when you have installed the beta bios it seems. Tried booting to m flash from bios but it wont post into flash, then i tried the flash button, but it just stays solid red.
Can I use this method with already installed CPU and RAM? I really do not want to remove the processor and cooler and then apply thermal grease again, etc.
Just wanted to chime in that this worked perfectly on my B450 Pro Carbon/3600X. Voltages are proper and temperatures are reasonable on the beta as well.
@@upload9595 Hoping to clear up some potential confusion you might have: when the process was finished, only the flashing red bios light stopped, the other lights on my mobo were still on, including the CPU debug red light. I simply flipped the switch on psu once everything was done. Also, the CPU debug light came on for every boot until my windows was fully up to date for some reason.
Hi, on the webpage of the msi b550 gaming plus the video is from 2015 and there the filename is not changed when copying to the usb drive. So which one is the right way for me? Is it this way the other way or the Mandalorian way?
If the light keeps flashing three times try this.... use a smaller drive, i used a 2gb make sure to format the drive, even if there is nothing on it. when formatting make sure to select "FAT 32" if you don't it wont work. Hope this helped, it worked for me.
So using my ryzen 7 5800x with a b450 tomahawk max II Having to update the bios, using a formatted 2.0 usb stick, plugging it in the red light flashing for up to 5 mins to do install. But then problem still consists with the LED CPU error light showing
Hi MSI (or someone else). I chose the B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC board for my new 3700X. Can I build my complete new PC (incl. installing CPU, RAM etc.) and flash bios after, or should I flash without installing the CPU?
@everyone you need to change your pendrive to mbr from gpt. Use "rufus" and select free dos with mbr format with FAT32 system after that put the ROM file into pendrive and follow rest from video
This is what worked for my 5600x B450 Tomahawk. I forgot to check bios after removing a 3700x from the system. Dropped in the 5600x and no post. System powers up but the CPU LED remains lit. Without uninstalling any of the hardware, system was fully built and ready to work. I tried a USB 3.0 32gb flash drive. Quick format, FAT32. Downloaded the latest BIOS file , renamed it to MSI.ROM. Placed only that file on the flash drive. Plugged it in and without powering up the PC I pressed the flash button. It blinked a few times and then went solid. I let it sit for 5mins and decide as it wasn't blinking it was likely hung based on what I read about solid light. Found a old 2gb USB 2.0 drive, quick format, same MSI.ROM bios file placed on this drive. Plugged in the flash drive and pressed the Flash button. This time my fans powered on simply from pressing the flash button. The flash drive started to blink and so I left it alone for a few minutes while I cleaned up tools and PC bits from the table. I heard the system within 3-5mins minutes reboot on it's own. Sure enough CPU light was now off and took a good 30-60secs and I finally saw POST screen. TIPS 1.) Format USB 2.0 drive FAT32 2.) Copy latest BIOS file onto it and rename the entire thing MSI.ROM 3.) My setup had the entire system hooked up with all hardware like CPU, RAM , GPU, drives all installed. 4.) Put flash drive into FLASH USB port and press the button above it 5.) If it starts blinking more then a few times and then continues to blink you are likely good to go just simply give it time to complete 6.) If light is solid then something didn't go right. This was on the original first version of the B450 Tomahawk. First time using flashback and so glad it worked as I was too lazy to uninstall the 5600x and pull a Zen + or Zen 2 from another system in the house. Now I have to be up for work in 4.5hrs so time to go. Figured more people that were stuck could read what worked for others might give them some confidence in a dicey task like a BIOS update using the button. Had me wondering if I would brick my board. Well it worked. Use an older smaller USB flash drive, format it, put the bios file on it and rename to MSI.ROM. Plug it in with power to the board at least and only press the rear flash button. If it's flashing then it's updating.
Its is flashing for me but my pc dosnt seem to do a restart after the flashing is done, no idea why and my pc dosnt even show something on the screen anymore...
@@Berstiger11 yikes. Sorry to hear that. I’m no expert, all I can say is make sure it’s the proper bios file renamed to MSI.rom. Plug power in and only press the bios flash back button to power the system up with the flash drive in the proper USB port for flashback. It should blink for about 5mins and then reboot on its own. I know pc issues can be a real pita. I hope you can get it to flash and I think even bios bricked boards can still be flashed to repair it. I would try different flash drives and fresh downloads of the bios file. Make sure it’s the proper version or revision of the board. I know the b450 has 3 versions of the same board tomahawk, tomahawk max and tomahawk max 2. I know they use a different bios on the max versions. Hope it works out for you.
@Teodor Ilie glad it was useful, there were still some concerns and questions after the video so figured I would try to detail it a bit more to take some guess work out of this process.
@@furyianman5157 nope, but it does boot with a monitor signal when i turn it on without the case, which is weird.. also my usbs plugged into the MB now smell like burnt after use. Great times
@@thorn_lekoh Do you still have issue ? Was your VGA led lit on the EZ debug stuff ? Mine's also bricked since I updated the BIOS (with a stable version, july 2023). X570 Gaming Edge wifi, worked like a charm for 3 full years until that update. Nothing i've tried worked, different displays, multiple displays, HDMI, DVI, Display port, nothing. Downgraded and upgraded BIOS several times, nothing. Seated and reseated Ram stick in all slots, nothing. BIOS update with absolutely everuything unplugged, even CPU rmoved, nothing. Turns on, fans on, no POST, can't even send a signal to the screen, pushing key on keyboard does nothing as well. 1 long beep, 2 shorts. Weird stuff is, with the R9 390 (which is my main GPU and has been working fine since 2015), it doesn't beep, it's just the VGA debug light on. With an HD 7770, it does beep along with the VGA debug light. I've updated that motherboard with so many different BIOS everytime there was an official release, never had an issue. Never buying a processor without an igpu again anyway. Thank you AMD.
I have a B450 Gaming Plus with a 3700x. Will there be any video output AT ALL from the computer before a successful USB Bios flash? I've done everything exactly as the video shows, but my computer is not giving ANY video output before or after flash. My mobo flashes differently during bios flashing as well. It will blink slowly for the first 45 seconds or so and then blink rapidly for the next 2 minutes. My PC suddenly restarts when it's done but still has no video and the CPU light remains on on the board like it did when I had no cpu in. Any suggestions?
I have the same mono and cpu. Download the latest one from the website. Follow the steps. Then put ram, cpu, gpu and back in and boot it up it will take it straight to the bios menu
So I have a x570 tomahawk. When I press the button my pc turns on, then a white lite flashes next to the port/button. After about 5 mins ish the light doesn't stop flashing but the pc reboots (and still doesn't post) ibguesd this means the update is failing?
Very important!!! Because some people use the front case USB ports when they copy bios on stick and most are 3.0 Those 2 ports where he sticks the USB are 2.0 ( the red ones are 3.0 or 3.1 ). So when you copy the bios use the same USB port for copying/installing, never ever mix them like copy on USB 2.0 port and trying to install on USB 3.0 port, or else it will give errors! Same thing when installing Windows from USB, always use the same USB port 2.0 or 3.0 for copying and installing never mix them.
@@kamaronwoods7733 Nope, the error only occurs when you copy the windows on a different port version and try to install it on other port version, like copy on USB 2.0 port and try to install it on USB 3.0 port, it happened to me to, I was like wtf, why I get errors at 97-98% when installing windows.Had to google some for a while. Always use same USB ports when copy/install the windows/bios, the errors occur because there's a difference in data between ports when you do the copy. Never had problem with the USB device using it in higher or lower port. But if some strange error occurs than ppl should know the culprit.
If it stops blinking after ~10s something went wrong.
I found out the hard way that its working only with a USB2-Sticks on my B550 board!
Please upvote this so others can see it and don't waste half a day reading in forums and reddit like I did!
How do i find out what type of USB stick i have??? it only says USB drive File system: FAT32
Where can i buy a USB2-Stick?
Thank you so much, I just built my pc and I was literally having a panic attack because of this but you thanks to you, I managed to solve it ^^
thanks for pointing this, it solved my problem.
You mean that you need a usb 2.0 stick and not a 3.0?
I almost had a heart attack when it actually finally worked thank you.
For other people, here are some things that confused me
1: YES, you CAN keep all other components plugged in during this process
2. You DO NOT power on the pc first, you keep it off while pressing the button
3. I like beeg chees borgor
4: I like Freg Fwy
You saved the day after two hours of troubleshooting. You are amazing.
#2 fixed it for me + I needed to try another USB Stick
Thanks a lot kind stranger. If we should ever meet in life I owe you a cold one
Thanks for answering my singular question. I was wondering if GPU, RAM, CPU, and any other add in cards needed to be removed from the system to use this.
chees borgor gud
Success! I did this with CPU (Ryzen 5 5600G) and ram installed. Prior to this there was no image on my monitor, and my EZ debug "CPU" light was lit on my MSI B550 M Bazooka Mobo. After following this guide, everything worked. Hope this helps someone else in my situation!
Trying this on b450 tomahawk max II and cant gdt it to work..may have to get a new mobo
@@thecasualfly same
Have you used the newest update to upgrade your mobo?
i'm with the same situation
Try a different usb stick.
Be sure to format in fat32.
Make sure you rename correctly Name AND extension.
Damn, it saved my life
Thanks I was a bit worried about that!
@@zlinkxyz8068 same
Tyvm good man, you're our unsung hero.
Question: Most of MSI mobo isn't compatible on 3rd gen Ryzens right of the box right? So you need to do this first?
Also, is it really safe to plug all your components in and then start flashing?
@@UrlOn2Wheels Yeah its not like they have anything to do with flashing the bios, but make sure the mobo you do choose has the bios flashback feature also a quite a few motherboards of msi ship with 3rd gen compatibility out of the box, just do some more research about the motherboard and you should be fine.
Gonna do this once Ryzen 3700X drops in a few weeks.
EDIT: Successfully flashed BIOS via this method on my *MSI B450M Mortar.* Worked like a charm, even with RAM, CPU installed.
Flashdrive: 32GB USB 3.0 (FAT32)
BIOS ver I used: 7B89v17.
3700X is a beast!
Same
does anyone know whether the X470 Gaming Pro Carbon have USB Bios Flashback?
@@kamaaddeen the pro carbon ac has it, i just got one and im abt to flash it
@@killnbl pretty sure the x470 doesn't have it. Do you have the b450 gaming pro carbon maybe?
@@Scoopa yeah thats the one i got, ill be getting a 3600 for it when its out
that's pretty interesting. not having to connect a CPU or GPU let alone a computer screen or any external hardware to put on updated BIOS. this really saved me the trouble.
Yeah pretty nice you can flash it before you even begin putting the system together. Great idea MSI!
Your USB device must be MBR!!! GPT not worked!!! Why no one talked about it!!????
UP please for info!
what is MBR and what is GPT?
Same question as Nick
ty for post I already changed mine to mbr so i wont run into troubles
@@pegasus_2137 mbr allows your usb to be a boot drive, to change it:
open cmd as admin,
type:
diskpart
list disk (all your drives will pop up)
sel dis (# assigned to your usb)
CLEAN
convert mbr
pretty much any modern usb should have the capability to do this, and to check to make sure it is in MBR type "list disk" again and if the usb has an asterisk beside it (to the left) your good
@@justinc2633 Thanks, just tried it.
Edit: But after that, I can't paste the bios onto it, I'll look for a fix.
Edit 2: You have to type "create partition primary" to have it working.
Edit 3, so people don't have to scroll down: Then you need to format again.
Thank you msi for including this functionality on the motherboard. It saved me from going to a technician.
I came here to help you all after seeking help to flash BIOS too...
I bought a MPG X570 Carbon Wifi to use with Ryzen 5600G which couldn't POST, showing CPU led on on EZ DEBUG.
I've followed all the instructions on the video, read tons of comments here, Reddit, random tech sites, and the only way I could flash BIOS to the current latest version (7B93v1H) in my case, was to leave the mobo with only the power cables (ATX 24-pin and both ATX 12+4-pin attached onto the mobo.
Then I followed to use a FAT32 formatted 2Gb stickdrive I have here with the latest ROM renamed to MSI.ROM, plugged into the right USB2.0 slot and and pushed the magic Flash BIOS button.
I've waited for around 5 minutes as reported until the Flash BIOS red led stop blinking, then after I hard power cycled it.
After it took couple minutes to show something on screen, blinking randomly some leds on EZ DEBUG (omfg I swear I've bricked the mobo lol) and then it successully went into BIOS screen - hooray!!
I failed on many attempts, such as trying on different USB2.0 sticks varying from 32Gb to this 2Gb I've used...I utterly decided to quit, until I tried the last time ripping all the peripherals, and boom! I made it!
So whoever is trying to make it, even if you read people succeeding they could flash with CPU/RAM/GPU, I recommend trying remove everything as I said above.
Good luck!
I did this with a new Z690 Tomahawk wifi Ddr5 , as it needed updating for an intel 13th gen i7 13700k. The pc was a new build so board was bare except for power connections. The flash seemed to be successful, usb stick would rapidly flash for 5 mins. Then board would turn of then back on. After the reboot the red Cpu light would come on, on the motherboard & stay on. I kept thinking I had an error in the flash. But the flash was fine, it was lit simply because no cpu was connected. That does make sense when you think about it. But no one explains this anywhere, hope this helps another person
Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏🙏
B450 MORTAR TITANIUM: There is no red LED, it is white and near the corner. Tried four or five USB drives, none worked. Then I remembered having an old 512MB USB and this worked. There should really be better compatibility with USB drives from this decade. Use the smallest USB drive you can find. 64GB, 32GB, 8GB are too big. I didn't check 4GB, I used 512MB. Format the drive as FAT32. Copy the BIOS files to the drive and rename it MSI.ROM.
You do not power up the board, you just insert the USB (lowest port in corner by button), press button, board will power itself up.
White LED near the back will start flashing repeatedly. If it blinks only three times, it didn't work. It should continue blinking steadily and if the USB drive has an indicator, it will blink too. The row of LEDs beneath the front of the board will light up white. After the flashing is complete, the white LED in the back stops (turns off) and the front LEDs beneath the board turn red.
Hope this helps. Instructions in the video are terrible.
I have B-450M mortar, so propably same board mut not grey. My flashing light turned off but my psu fan keeps spining. Do I just turn it off?
i have more that one file in the zip file do all of thm need to me named MSI.ROM? or can i delete the text file?
@@baco1182 The text file can be deleted. Only the largest file (16MB) needs to be on the usb drive.
Was the USB (the bigger one's like 16 gb) fat32? Because I have a USB 16gb fat32 and want to know if that should work
Worked with a 4gb USB key. Thx for sharing!
oh my god oh my god oh my god this just saved my bacon! i was being a complete dunce and kept trying to press the button while the mobo was powered on, i didn’t realize the board had to be OFF completely before you could press the flash button. thank you MSI for posting this!!!
Damn work! Really saved my life !
Do it while all component assembled. No need to unplug your component.
THIS! Worked for me. Purchased msi b450 and ryzen 3600x. Got red cpu led and nothing worked no screen etc. Did this, press flash button, now I can see the screen and I can install Windows :)
Did you have the memory and the CPU already installed when using the flash bios button?
@@klaustrophobie1312 yes, ram, gpu and cpu, full pc was assembled while doing it.
@@ronnymueller1918 thanks a lot! This is some good news!
@@havinga6344 404 video not found it says.
@@harmony4733 I fixed the link, thank you for pointing out the 404!
Got my 5600g going on a 550M Mortar. Good instructions, used 4gb fat32 stick, took about five minutes. Edit: USB2
I love how u are flashing your mobo’s bios while in the background talking about lunch with others
You DONT NEED USB 2.0,
Just CONVERT THE USB TO MBR FROM GPT AND MAKE SURE IT IS FAT32, then proceed.
Worked for me with CPU, RAM and NVME INSTALLED.
Running 5700G, AL-Hamdallah it is Working Fine.
Thank you.
Worked easy with the MSI B450 Gaming Plus.
Took me like 5 minutes and now it is ryzen 3000 compatible.
I have the same board.. :) Congratulations. Please, did your PSU shutdown after the BIOS Flashback diode stopped blinking. Since mine stopped blinking, but the usb is still blinking, EZ debug LED is still red and I can hear the power suply still running after like 30mins. Is it ok? I am now afraid to just turn it off.
@Frostek First i tried it like in the Video without Ram Cpu and Gpu and i thought it would work but it didn't.
So i tried with CPU, Ram, Gpu again and it worked i could literally see the update cause my Monitor was blinking.
1.Put the Usb stick in the slot next to the button.
2.Click on the button (Pc will start after 5-10 Seconds)
3.Wait until your Pc turns itself off and on again.
Done
@@josefvalihrach4705 Had the problem too while updating my Bios.
i just turned it off and took the Cmos out for 2 minutes after that i started it again with my whole equip and it worked.
@@NediToTheYak Thank you very much. Now it works for me too. But the starts and restards are a little weird (After power on, The EZ debug LED is CPU red for like two seconds, then it kinda restarts, cycles through other LEDs and finaly posts). Also in bios "save and exit" does not exit the bios and "discard and restart" restarts right back to BIOS without me touching any key. Had to turn off the PSU. Very beta BIOS I guess but I am still happy that it works. :) Did you use the stock cooler? I had to unscrew and change the orientation ofbthe plastic fan on top of the AMD Wraith spire cooler to access both of the ram slots and it is still very tight.
@@josefvalihrach4705 Yeah the Bios seems a bit buggy but it works.
I use the Be quiet Bk009 cooler. i just checked some Benchmarks from the AMD boxed coolers but i wasnt that much impressed
Interesting to see BIOS flash procedure is pretty standard across manufacturers. Thanks!
Successfully flashed BIOS via this method on my *MSI B450M Mortar.* Worked like a charm, even with RAM, CPU installed.
Flashdrive: 32GB USB 3.0 (FAT32)
BIOS ver I used: 7B89v17.
And this is why some B450 boards are valid options for me. I can update the BIOS without a compatible CPU similar to my current and previous motherboards (now only the flagships/high end boards have it. Unlike my dirt cheap and mid range H87 and Z97 boards from the same manufacturer)
So..when the MSI site says you need to use a specific browser for best results, you'd better believe it. I bought 4 different usb sticks on top of the 8 or so I had lying around. I tried downloading multiple versions of the bios. The very first time I tried downloading with Edge browser instead of Firefox, it worked like a charm. I used a 16GB Sandisk Cruiser Glide USB2 stick.
For users who portion their USB Stick with a MAC:
On Disk Utility Settings for the USB Stick: MS-DOS (FAT) and Master Boot Record.
Hello, thanks so much I got my usb from mac to work! I will like this so hopefully all the other mac os users will see: Follow his instructions and make sure you only include the file with .101 in the usb, nothing else! (rename it to MSI.ROM of course) That is how I got mine to work
@@ponysmofor4122 I downloaded the bios but I dont have a file that is .101 I have .108??
Brett I have a tomahawk , so it’s probably different if u have a different mobo. Anyways that should be the right file , and make sure the usb is “master boot and fat32”
@@ponysmofor4122 yeah I bought a tomahawk thanks! did you power down and unplug the usb after it was finished flashing the red light?
Brett yes it did the exact thing in the video, the led’s also lit up on the back of the mobo
Formatted my old 4GB flash drive to FAT32 in windows, copied the BIOS file to the drive, renamed it MSI.ROM _ Plugged in CPU 1 and the ATX connector, Z490 Ace motherboard was on a table with no CPU, powered on the PSU, plugged the drive into the slot marked flash bios, pressed the flash bios button, led blinked for about 5 minutes, then done. My case comes tomorrow, but I'm confident it worked as it should. Did enjoy watching the motherboard light up though.
did it work
thank you for this tutorial that allowed me to flash the mortar max I bought a few days ago without having to swap the other components because I have not yet received the box of the pc
Success!! I have an MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI motherboard and an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU. Updating the BIOS using a flash drive formatted as FAT32 worked!!! Was super nervous about if it'd brick it but it didn't!
Wow that is some slick sheet I like that MSI good job!........Might have to change my brand of motherboard next time.
Thank You!!! You are a PC Tech. GOD! You fixed my issue even after a PC technician from a computer store told me my motherboard was bricked and I needed to buy another motherboard. You saved me $150.00.... TY TY TY!!!!!! :) I'm buying MSI products from now on!!!!!
@MSI, could you please publish what the Flashback+ LED flashing error codes mean? Would help a lot in debugging...
something like:
flash sequence 1: FAT32 partition not found
flash sequence 2: BIOS file not found
flash sequence 3: BIOS file not valid
flash sequence 4: flashing process beginning
etc...
This would be very helpful. I was stuck for 15 minutes and then realised my pendrive was FAT rather than FAT32...
Yep. Flashing right now, got stuck in 2 flashes and off. Somehow MB ate rom file from the drive. It was wiped. I know i dragged file to usb stick and then renamed it, but stick was empty after 1st try. 2nd try is probably ok, blinking now very fast.
flash sequence 2: BIOS file not found - i think 2 blink usb not reconize. begger 16 gb i try 4-8-16 gb not help
update, it was okay. flashed well.
Man this is so good, thank you.
Used this method on the new b550 mpg itx motherboard and worked like a charm. The desktop update failed so had to do this. Key note... Make sure you give it a whole 5 minutes for the flashing to finish and it will restart by itself
Extremely useful feature, thats one of the main reasons to buy an msi mobo over another brand
I know Asus has a flash bios button on at least a few of their motherboards.
@@fortnitefunnyguyman6077 Yeah 5 of their mobos support it. You could go with either of them depending on your needs and budget. (I'm getting the B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC since I need wifi either way and the extra vram is also nice)
They are shit
Thanks for the vid and to all the people in the comments. I was able to "unbrick" my mobo after updating BIOS from MSI center. Lesson learned
Thanks a lot for implementing this feature. It saved my ass.
Thank you MSI for having this feature! When i failed my bios update through M-flash and got black screen i almost lost my mind. But this button helped me out to recover my bios.
OMG! You’re a legend!! You have no idea how much you save me. First, I tried the m-flash thing in bios to update my bios to the latest but right after I click the m-flash thing my screen blacked out. At this moment I knew I fucked up. I tried to redeem myself by thinking it will work after I reset the pc but fcuking holy satan I heard some bad noise from the motherboard and still black screen. I totally screwed tho I didn’t give up coz what else can I do. then searching for more info in web then I saw this flash button behind the cpu then here I am. I follow from renaming msi.rom and converting the usb to mtr something. Then took the flash bios button and damn it really works. Woohoo!! 🥳 I feel pro at this moment. ☺️☺️☺️ thank you master. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
PS. On msi mortar titanium led light is white. All my components are attached when I did the flash bios button thing. 🙂
All seemed hopeless for my i7-13700k. What ended up working was going for an older version of my BIOS. That finally FINALLY worked
I just built my PC and my i6 13700k is not working out of the box aside from the smart light and the BIOs update on my z790 carbon wifi msi board, how do you roll back to an older version? just got to get a usb with an older update or something?
@@VargusDreaddid u ever figure this out? gonna try rolling back mine today with an older bios version to see if it solves my problem
Thank you for posting this! I found this online instead of calling in or creating a support ticket, and it made recovering my BIOS easy. The step about renaming the file isn't included in the motherboard documentation that ships in the box I don't think, but this video got me all the way back to a fully working system without having to engage MSI support lines at all. It saved my bacon today!
why is this video so half assed compared to the M-flash one? this one seems way more important considering it will be needed if you need to update BIOS to use newer CPUs
hi ive just put my ryzen 5600x into a msi x570 unify retail and it wont power up everything is connected properly checked over 10 bilion timies, ive tried to update the bis also still cant power it up (it has power i just get the red light flash near ram memmories help
I have the same set up as urs. Same thing happened to my pc as well, I just get off the cpu fan or loose some motherboard screws to the pc case, then it can turn on now
Hey I still have problems and need help. I have the MSI b450 Gaming Plus and a AMD ryzen 5 3600. We first tried putting all in and starting it but no signal on the screen. After much research we came to the conclusion that we need a new bios. But with this flashing method , the red light blinks 2 times and then just keeps glowing. We let it in like 10 minutes but still glowing. Scrolled through the comments and some had the same problems but his solution was checking the bios and noticing he had the wrong bios but we checked like 3 times and we're pretty sure we have the right one. The USB-Stick ist FAT32. Someone help?
Finally got it to work. Found a reddit post and tried lots of things. What finally worked was formating a 8gb USB-Stick to "non-bootable" and then putting the bios and and renaming it.
Do you have to remove the CPU, RAM, etc before you flash? one post below says they did it while they were still all plugged in - just curious. Thanks!
For anyone who thinks this doesn't work, unplug all components first (cpu, gpu, and ram), then do what the video says then after auto reset plug all components back in. Worked for my MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max, hope it helps!
Got it working after some time. Using a z690 Tomahawk DDR4 Wifi. Tried 3 USB sticks, nothing worked, the red led stayed on instead of blinking. What worked for me:
Usb 2.0 - 8GB. Formatted with Rufus (a tool on windows) to MBR and Fat32. Selected not bootable in Rufus. After that, reformatted it in Windows, Fat32 again, drive name without blanks, 4096 bytes cluster size. Downloaded the second most recent BIOS again (figured maybe the most recent is broken). extracted the bios file and renamed it to MSI.ROM
Copied the file to the root of the usb stick. Cut the power of the Mainboard. Put Usb Stick in flash usb port. connected power again. Pressed the flash button (pc was turned off). The led flashes a couple of times and then the pc turns on. If it does not turn on or the led stays red without flashing: it's not working. My cpu and everything else except GPU was connected. No other usb deviced connected.
Using the 2nd most recent BIOS worked for me too. I was then able to flash the latest afterward. Thanks for this info!
I did step by step all ur info but the red light flashed 3 times and nothin happen. It won t reboot by it self, and the light stay on red for hours. I have my cpu and gpu out. Some help please?
@@satana9131 Try different usb sticks
And what do I do if it’s still blinking 12 hours later? 3 USB sticks, 2 computers to format said stocks and 3 days of researching support topics later my new tomahawk b550 still won’t boot. Very disappointed especially in the very fried manual with no what to do when the motherboard f***s up....
Do i need a ram gpu cpu etc off from pc? Or i can have them in
Trying on a brand new x570s tomahawk Max Wi-Fi, led is flashing for a solid hour now, what can I do?
Please contact us at www.msi.com/support/mb we are happy to help.
same problem
Thank you. I tried updating my bios today and something when wrong. Im glad I bought an MSI board with the flash button. saved my ass
У кого не выходит обновить, т.е не идет прошивка с флешки, потому что она у вас как загрузочная скорее всего, отформатируйте ее через Rufus, выберите метод загрузки "незагрузочный образ" и полное форматирование , создание всяких меток тоже убрал . Изначально пытаясь обновить, у меня лампочка 3 раза мигала и на этом все.. Раньше я винду с нее ставил и видимо биос не хочет обновляться с загрузочной флешки) обновлял на MSI B450 A PRO
Все сделал так же. 3 раза моргает и все
Все так, спасибо за совет!
Спасибо,помогло!
@@user-zo4ni7be6hесли что, флешка должна быть отформатирована в fat32
Флешка на 16 Гб обязательно??
Is this the Clear CMOS Button?
Because i bought the MSI X470 Gaming PLUS wich does not have such a Flash BIOS Button on the rear, just the Clear CMOS on board.
Is there a possibilitiy for updating the BIOS with this board with out an old CPU?
@@dalenmar I had zero problems to start with the old ryzen 1000, updated the BIOS to newst version, then installed the ryzen 3000. worked just fine
Also if it stops blinking after 10 seconds and didn't work... My board needed the usb drive to be formatted in ntfs format, not fat32. It came with an older bios version in ntfs so after I tried and failed to update the bios per instructions I tried again in ntfs format and no problem.
Is your board a z690 Edge Wifi by chance? You are the first person to comment that the NTFS formatted usb drive (that I'm assuming came with the MSI MB) also worked. I used the drive it came with and updated the bios successfully using the NTFS format as well.
@@countdadcula4475 yes, it is an edge wifi.
Thank you, will try this when I got the 3600 and my mortar titanium!
hey i was thinking the same :D
I'm planning to do the same in the next few weeks, let us know how it goes / any tips! Really not trying to brick the mobo on my first build
@@joshuabishop2728 Same. Already got my 3600 and B450 gaming plus on the way. Hope this works correctly (crosses fingers)
FYI - just did it on my mortar titanium and it worked flawlessly (even with the CPU preinstalled)
@@Quacker_Gaming Same but I got the b450m gaming plus
Hi, I have a b450m Mortar.
I have copy the Bios file in a FAT32 USB and i have renamed to MSI.ROM.
When I try to install de bios, the light blinks slowly and then the light stays on, with no blinks.
I have waited several minutes, but nothing happends.
Please, anyone knows what can I do?
Thanks
I have the same mobo, and flashed BIOS successfully via this method.
Which BIOS version are you trying? Have you inserted the flashdrive in the right flashback+ USB port? Refer to the manual if you wanna know this.
@@AnalogFoundry Hi. First, thanks for the help.
I am trying to install the 7B89v19
(2019-07-30).
I've connected the USB to the port near the flash button (I have tried with both).
Maybe is an USB problem, I tried with a SD reader USB. This afternoon I'll try with an USB pendrive
@@jorgebaldrich7893 use only the flashback+ USB port. Try using v17 BIOS, as that's what worked for me.
So you do have to extract the file from the zip once you download it and then rename it MSI.ROM. That might explain why I ways have the CPU debug light and can't boot.
Yup
The red light only flashed for me for 5 seconds. Is bios updated?
5 seconds? No, start over and try again. It should be 5 mins roughly. Itll reboot itself if it was a success.
Hi. Same here. Red light blinks three times and nothing happens. You solve your problem?
@@TheBayezit read the thread b4 replying.
Paran01ac 3 flashes means it failed according to msi technician via phone
I assume since you're flashing a motherboard BIOS you know how to work a PC but make sure you have your file extensions turned on windows otherwise you're going to end up with MSI.ROM.101
No, queda con la extensión .ROM
Lol ,Good call out there,
you know it has happened a lot in the last week.
>needing to remember to enable file extensions on Windows
>using _Windows_
*smh*, tbh, fams
GNU+Linux mustard race 🖥️🐧
LOL I wondered about that as I was renaming the file.
Hello people, i have followed this guide for my MSI B550 Tomahawk, but the led just keeps flashing and doesnt stop. Any ideas whats the problem here?
I just wanna use my ryzen 5 5600x :(
did you solved it? Have the same problem. It's blinking for over an hour now..
@@gigamarv hey, i havent solved it, but try using rufus for formatting the usb drive, i've heard it helped some people. I returned mine btw
@@tsengeb.654 great, thank you..
Thought i repost this helped some poeple in another vid
1st. I needed a usb 3.0 8gb is what I’m using,
my usb 2.0 would not work.
2nd. Just Format the drive into fat32
NO I DID NOT NEED TO MAKE IT MBR like everyone else im on win7 and win10 i did this yesterday works fine....but u can try if needed
3rd. Now we have the Usb3.0 formatted to fat32 just slide your bios file into the usb then rename it MSI.ROM,
make sure you Move the Right file over not the .txt file
4th. Once renamed to MSI.ROM
Now you must setup you motherboard, all I did was plugged in was the 24pin for the motherboard, and an 8 pin, or 4pin (depending on your motherboard) for my cpu power, no I did not have my processor in, or my hard drives.
OR you can it also worked for me with processor and hard drive in after testing... although i needed to Flick my psu on and off for it to realize it was updated, but Still Worked!
5th. Then hit you bios flashback button it blinks red for maybe 5-10 minutes then the red light stops blinking, and that means it’s finished your motherboard should automatically restart after it stops blinking, but for me it did not restart the first time i updated my bios so i just waited for it to COMPLETELY STOP BLINKING then I turned my motherboard off and on, and its the same thing just a manual restart had worked.
Hope this helps u figure it out
Only the Motherboard Power, and CPU power, was needed for me when doing this literally do not know why it didnt like my old Usb 2.0 so I’m hoping that this is the issue your running into
How to know if its 2.0 usb? And 3.0 usb?
Thank you! This worked for me. Tried 7 older drives, and either the update light wouldn't turn off, or it would turn off after 10-20 sec. but with my newest 32GB drive it worked like charm, and rebooted correctly after the update!
@@kavinrosios2777 by the color of the usb port if its black its a 2.0 if its blue its a 3.0 i think 1.0 is white
i have a ryzen 7 5800x cpu and my monitor is on and it still says no signal how do i fix this. i have also flashed the bios
For anyone having dramas (I was getting 3 red flashes). Try another USB drive.
Had to try 3 different ones for it to work.. didn’t seem to have anything to do with size. (The one ended up working was 32gb)
I've tried a 32gb and a 120mb. The 32gb flashes 3 times and then nothing. The 120mb flashes twice and then the light stays on. If this is the type of drama I can expect from an MSI board I'm sending it back.
@@6Twisted it has to be a FAT32 drive
make sure it is formatted as fat32. if you don't then it won't work.
@@yotoprules9361 you fix this? 2 blinks?
@@VEnZ0ja I don't as I haven't done it myself. what flash drive are you using and is it formatted to FAT32?
Just an FYI. A friend of mine recently purchased an MSI Bazooka B550m board. He could not get this process to work at all. He purchased the mobo and a Ryzen 5600G for a new build. He removed the DIMMS and CPU and still could not get this process to work. Turns out that he had this board pretty much installed and hooked up to the front panel connector. I advised him to remove pretty much all the other cables except for the ATX12V and CPU Power as shown in the video. Once he had the board with just the PSU connections, this process worked. So there must be some sort of circuitry or electrical connection which does NOT allow the flash button to work if the Front Panel connector cables are connected.
This saved my bacon! Pc worked fine after being put together, booted great. While I was waiting for the Windows 10 media Creation Tool to finish I played with the BIOS a bit. Set my RAM to 3200 and thats when I got the solid red CPU LED and it didn't boot. Finished the Windows 10 Media Creation tool process, copied the latest BIOS update to the same USB drive, renamed it, popped it in and flashed within about 4 minutes.
Now I have a working system again! Such a handy feature! I'm unsure if clearing the CMOS with the jumper would have helped but oddly enough I can't locate a jumper to clear it anyway....so this worked really well!
Actually, the mobo is designed to reset the CMOS settings, if the computer fails to boot 5 times in a row.
Hard-crashing it (power button, hold) will make it work faster.
I had the same issue with the RAM speeds (except 3000 MHz, and it worked at 2933 with 2 slots, but it crashed with 4 slots filled, so I needed to drop the speed to 2733 MHz -- non-QVL RAM, unfortunately)
Thanks for the guide, it did work with a USB 3.0 stick on a B550 chipset, however I did try 2 different ones before it worked.
I was also experiencing a red solid light after about 5 or 6 blinks. In the end the only thing that worked for me was using an 8GB USB 2.0, formatted to FAT32 with MBR partition. USB 3 drives, anything over 8GB and GPT led to a solid red light.
That's absurd in 2023. But it worked! Thank god I happened to still have a USB 2.0 4GB flash drive...
Is there any risk then of updating the bios and it completely bricking my motherboard and or any other components I have connected??
Okay so, I tried updating my BIOS using Dragon center and I really regret it. My PC rebooted but with the CPU light (EZ Debug LED) turned on. It wasn't there before, so I knew there was a problem. Turns out, the BIOS update failed. Now to sum it up, my PC turns on but there is no display. To fix it, you need to have a bootable drive (you can just use Rufus), and of course, the flash bios button in your motherboard.
1) Extract the BIOS file to your bootable drive
2) Rename the BIOS file to "MSI.ROM" (you may delete the txt document as it's not needed anyway).
3) Ensure that your motherboard has its power supply connected (I didn't remove anything in my PC like the SSD, RAM, etc... so it should be fine)
4) Connect the bootable drive in the USB port of your mobo under the flash bios button.
5) You won't turn on the PC or anything. Once the bootable drive is connected, wait for 5 secs and press the Flash BIOS button until red blinking lights appear. The lights should stay for awhile as that would mean that the BIOS is being updated.
6) Your PC should automatically boot up indicating that the update was successful.
My PC is working fine now. I'm running a Ryzen 3900x on an MSI x570 Gaming Edge Wi-Fi.
Same thing like this happened to me. I will try to follow your instruction on my B450 Tomahawk MAX.
@@gemwae did you solve it?
@@otto5215 Yes it's worked!
Hey I'm getting the same problem , when i hard reset bios by clearing cmos it shows display but suddenly after running 2-4 hours the screen crash and shows no signal but cpu is on and kbm doesn't respond and the cpu dont turn of by pressing power button.
Can any of you help?
My light stays red after blinking for 40 seconds or so. Please help
Same problem here. found any solution?
@@DaRealTessio yup I used a different usb stick
What is the red light after you click the button only light up 3 times?
Nice video this worked for my b450 tomahawk board
Did yours update in 4 secs?
@@VoidBlack7873 took like 4 minutes for me
@@christionbradley7567I forgot to take the file out of the folder *facepalm*
Did you red light flash or did it stay on, since im reading the comments and every one says its flashing but my light stays on
@@BombBear Did you get yours working? Mine isn't flashing either and is staying solid
I bricked my board MSI B450m Pro M2-Max not sure that supports the flashback. I have few questions @msi
1. Does It have this feature?
2. Do I flash older bios?
3. Do I have to take CPU? or I can leave it assembled?
Did you find a solution to this?
Hi! :)
Does this procedure work on the z77a-gd65?
this worked! for me it was formatting the drive to MBR fat 32 that got it working on a very old usb - my newer USB 3 drive didn't work - did it with everything connected still (even k&m etc). so glad to not have to waste resources and time on an insurance claim.
Great tutorial! With your help I seemed to have updated my MSI B550 Gaming Carbon Wifi to the latest bios for my 5600x cpu, but im still getting the same issue i had before bios update where the hardware looks on but won't boot to input to my monitor and my keyboard/mouse are not working either. The mouse rgb will flick on for a second then turn off so I don't think the usb ports are the issue. Thanks for the help!
Same issue mate B550 Carbon Wifi and 5600X CPU, did you manage to fix it somehow? Thanks for help!
@@drdrill5153 I didn't have any other compatible chips for the b550 so I had to take it to Micro Center where they were able to put in an older, already compatible cpu in the mobo to do more bios updates. Not exactly sure what they did but it worked. Seems like just flashing the bios alone with a USB isn't enough.
Will try this today, I have an B550 Gaming Edge Wifi and a ryzen 5600x and when i start it, It don't have any Signal, only a ez debug led indicator (boot led one).
I wish that is only a BIOS version problem 😬😬
@@calebonner8782 I managed to get it running, problem for me seemed to be the initial Bios Version along with my RAM, I used 3600MHZ initially, borrowed my brothers 3200MHz Module, boots straight up, then chose the XMP2 Profile in Bios, changed to my 3600MHz RAM and workes since like a charm :) hope I could help you!
Hey I'm getting the same problem , when i hard reset bios by clearing cmos it shows display but suddenly after running 2-4 hours the screen crash and shows no signal but cpu is on and kbm doesn't respond and the cpu dont turn of by pressing power button.
Can any of you help?
Let's say I bought a MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC, for example, to use with a AMD Ryzen 3700X.
Can I immediately put in the CPU, plug everything in, start up the PC and play?
My question is:
(1) Can I use this board from right *OUT OF THE BOX* with the CPU?
(2) Can I use the Flash BIOS Button *AFTER* the CPU and heatsink are already on? or
(3) Does the Flash BIOS button have to be used *BEFORE* anything else if I'm using Ryzen 3000 series?
1: no you have to flash the bios first
2: no, but they didn't in the video, so try not to
3: yes, since you can't do anything if you haven't
Christian Ivanov
Thanks
does it work with a already corrupt bios in the mobo ????
That's what I wanna know! That could be a major selling feature!
Thank you for this easily getting this done with no hassle
I did everything shown in the video but the light just flashed 3 times ........i downloaded a folder from the msi site and not a file, does that make any difference???
(ryzen 5 3600, b450 gaming pro carbon ac)
Drag the *.101 file out of the folder, rename it like shown in the video and it should work
i have the same issue with that board, just three flashes and then a permanent orange light..its a new board, maybe it comes with the last update? is your board new?
I have sam issue with B450M MORTAR TITANIUM. CPU error light signal on the board when 3600 installed and booting.
I found!! Under 16G USB use!!
@@user-dq6mq1bt8c Will try, thanks
I'm pairing a [Ryzen 7 3700x] with an MSI [B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC]. Should I flash the BIOS first (just PSU+MOBO connected) before completing the assembly of my PC? After this step, should I be safe to boot with my Windows installer USB connected?
i have a question must i unpluged the cpu gpu etc or can i flash with it ?
did you ever find out? having the same problem
Finally got my b450 tomahawk running. I used the latest bios v19 I think it was and when I flashed the flashback led blinked but not my usb stick, but after a couple minutes the usb started blinking and the process started. After it had finished and had stuck everything back in, I had a ram led appear when I booted. I moved the ram into the first ram slot and powered the pc on and off a few times and it worked!
Bro I need help I was messing around trying to get the flash bios to download and eventually it flashed really fast for abit and rebooted my system but now my system isn't outputting a signal to the monitor any ideas?
@@joesephsawyer2000 Did you ever get your pc to work again? Got the same problem right now.
What does it mean of LED is solid red (no flashing) after starting the flashing process?
Means you have downloaded the wrong bios for your mobo. Be sure to go to the website look up your mobo, go to support tab and down 'll pad it from there
@@_Mac_86 Yep, got an earlier version and it flashed ok. Not sure why the latest didn't flash. Thanks
@@_Mac_86 itcwont work when you have installed the beta bios it seems. Tried booting to m flash from bios but it wont post into flash, then i tried the flash button, but it just stays solid red.
@@_Mac_86 now im getting nowhere so guess i will have to buy a new mobo
Same issue here not sure what it mean could find nothing on MSI Forums and no one seem to know the answer
Can I use this method with already installed CPU and RAM? I really do not want to remove the processor and cooler and then apply thermal grease again, etc.
no, if you are using another computer to do the flashdrive on, extracting the files than just put it in the x570 motherboard
Just wanted to chime in that this worked perfectly on my B450 Pro Carbon/3600X. Voltages are proper and temperatures are reasonable on the beta as well.
Really hope i can write the same tomorrow when the board arrives.. Exact same board and cpu combo here.
@@upload9595 Hoping to clear up some potential confusion you might have: when the process was finished, only the flashing red bios light stopped, the other lights on my mobo were still on, including the CPU debug red light. I simply flipped the switch on psu once everything was done. Also, the CPU debug light came on for every boot until my windows was fully up to date for some reason.
@@saiyangodbroly26 Thank you very much for the advice. Much appreciated. :)
@@saiyangodbroly26 Where did you download the beta drivers? Do you know which version you used?
@@anthonyp4127Bios version 7B85v17 www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B450-GAMING-PRO-CARBON-AC
Hi, on the webpage of the msi b550 gaming plus the video is from 2015 and there the filename is not changed when copying to the usb drive. So which one is the right way for me? Is it this way the other way or the Mandalorian way?
after the flash bios is complete, the mainboard suddenly turns on again is it normal or flashbios failed?
Normal
Great instructions, you can do it with some components pluged in, but in my case i had to remove the gpu and ssd for it to work properly
If you try to usb flash the bios with the same version, would it still flash or would it do nothing?
If the light keeps flashing three times try this....
use a smaller drive, i used a 2gb
make sure to format the drive, even if there is nothing on it.
when formatting make sure to select "FAT 32" if you don't it wont work.
Hope this helped, it worked for me.
Nope, tried two different USBs, 32gb and 120mb.
6Twisted 32gb is too big and 120mb too small, try 4 or 8gb
@@MrSegu506 I managed to get it to work with the 120mb after a few tries.
6Twisted great. Congrats btw wt motherboard were you using and cpu?
@@MrSegu506 B450 Gaming Pro Carbon, the 3700x comes tomorrow.
So using my ryzen 7 5800x with a b450 tomahawk max II
Having to update the bios, using a formatted 2.0 usb stick, plugging it in the red light flashing for up to 5 mins to do install. But then problem still consists with the LED CPU error light showing
Hi MSI (or someone else). I chose the B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC board for my new 3700X. Can I build my complete new PC (incl. installing CPU, RAM etc.) and flash bios after, or should I flash without installing the CPU?
Please refer to this web page www.msi.com/blog/the-latest-bios-for-amd-300-400-series-motherboard
You can flash the bios with CPU, memory and GPU installed or with nothing installed, both work.
@@TheCloudsThunder thx!
flash first, then build compo
Worked for me with all components installed :)
@everyone you need to change your pendrive to mbr from gpt. Use "rufus" and select free dos with mbr format with FAT32 system after that put the ROM file into pendrive and follow rest from video
Are you sure it works?
Can we install bios in a bricked motherboard with this method
should imagine so
Yes
This is what worked for my 5600x B450 Tomahawk. I forgot to check bios after removing a 3700x from the system. Dropped in the 5600x and no post. System powers up but the CPU LED remains lit.
Without uninstalling any of the hardware, system was fully built and ready to work. I tried a USB 3.0 32gb flash drive. Quick format, FAT32. Downloaded the latest BIOS file , renamed it to MSI.ROM. Placed only that file on the flash drive. Plugged it in and without powering up the PC I pressed the flash button. It blinked a few times and then went solid. I let it sit for 5mins and decide as it wasn't blinking it was likely hung based on what I read about solid light.
Found a old 2gb USB 2.0 drive, quick format, same MSI.ROM bios file placed on this drive. Plugged in the flash drive and pressed the Flash button. This time my fans powered on simply from pressing the flash button. The flash drive started to blink and so I left it alone for a few minutes while I cleaned up tools and PC bits from the table. I heard the system within 3-5mins minutes reboot on it's own. Sure enough CPU light was now off and took a good 30-60secs and I finally saw POST screen.
TIPS
1.) Format USB 2.0 drive FAT32
2.) Copy latest BIOS file onto it and rename the entire thing MSI.ROM
3.) My setup had the entire system hooked up with all hardware like CPU, RAM , GPU, drives all installed.
4.) Put flash drive into FLASH USB port and press the button above it
5.) If it starts blinking more then a few times and then continues to blink you are likely good to go just simply give it time to complete
6.) If light is solid then something didn't go right.
This was on the original first version of the B450 Tomahawk. First time using flashback and so glad it worked as I was too lazy to uninstall the 5600x and pull a Zen + or Zen 2 from another system in the house. Now I have to be up for work in 4.5hrs so time to go. Figured more people that were stuck could read what worked for others might give them some confidence in a dicey task like a BIOS update using the button. Had me wondering if I would brick my board. Well it worked. Use an older smaller USB flash drive, format it, put the bios file on it and rename to MSI.ROM. Plug it in with power to the board at least and only press the rear flash button. If it's flashing then it's updating.
Its is flashing for me but my pc dosnt seem to do a restart after the flashing is done, no idea why and my pc dosnt even show something on the screen anymore...
@@Berstiger11 yikes. Sorry to hear that. I’m no expert, all I can say is make sure it’s the proper bios file renamed to MSI.rom. Plug power in and only press the bios flash back button to power the system up with the flash drive in the proper USB port for flashback. It should blink for about 5mins and then reboot on its own. I know pc issues can be a real pita. I hope you can get it to flash and I think even bios bricked boards can still be flashed to repair it. I would try different flash drives and fresh downloads of the bios file. Make sure it’s the proper version or revision of the board. I know the b450 has 3 versions of the same board tomahawk, tomahawk max and tomahawk max 2. I know they use a different bios on the max versions. Hope it works out for you.
@Teodor Ilie glad it was useful, there were still some concerns and questions after the video so figured I would try to detail it a bit more to take some guess work out of this process.
Fuck MSI for having no usb 3.0 support in 2023 omfg
The led was on after the process.
Mine too
Mine too. How ti fix it? Have a X570 Gaming Plus
@@SirPekksn mine also, any luck finding a solution?
Luis Eduardo was there a solution or was it normal cause it just happened to me right now
Its been roughly 30min after i started but the led stayed on
Did exactly that, and now my computer won't give signal to my monitors when booting so it's basically dead, nothing wakes the screens up.
You fix it? Im having trouble as well
@@furyianman5157 nope, but it does boot with a monitor signal when i turn it on without the case, which is weird.. also my usbs plugged into the MB now smell like burnt after use. Great times
@@thorn_lekoh Do you still have issue ? Was your VGA led lit on the EZ debug stuff ? Mine's also bricked since I updated the BIOS (with a stable version, july 2023). X570 Gaming Edge wifi, worked like a charm for 3 full years until that update. Nothing i've tried worked, different displays, multiple displays, HDMI, DVI, Display port, nothing. Downgraded and upgraded BIOS several times, nothing. Seated and reseated Ram stick in all slots, nothing. BIOS update with absolutely everuything unplugged, even CPU rmoved, nothing. Turns on, fans on, no POST, can't even send a signal to the screen, pushing key on keyboard does nothing as well. 1 long beep, 2 shorts.
Weird stuff is, with the R9 390 (which is my main GPU and has been working fine since 2015), it doesn't beep, it's just the VGA debug light on. With an HD 7770, it does beep along with the VGA debug light.
I've updated that motherboard with so many different BIOS everytime there was an official release, never had an issue. Never buying a processor without an igpu again anyway. Thank you AMD.
I’ve been update my bios for over 30 minutes now and the red led is still flashing. Anyone know why it’s taking so long?
Hey same problem occuring to me now, does it work out for your? how long did it take? I'm in panic
@@reneng2023 I ended up just returning that motherboard and getting a x570 one
@@andrewfraser6467 Thumbs up for your reply. I did got lucky after a few more minutes after i posted this
@@reneng2023 aw that’s good. I left mine for a couple of hours and nothing changed so I have to get the new motherboard lol
Can you update the bios without removing the CPU and ram stick that is installed on the motherboard?
Can I flash the BIOS if the PC is completely assembled?
yes
I have a B450 Gaming Plus with a 3700x. Will there be any video output AT ALL from the computer before a successful USB Bios flash? I've done everything exactly as the video shows, but my computer is not giving ANY video output before or after flash. My mobo flashes differently during bios flashing as well. It will blink slowly for the first 45 seconds or so and then blink rapidly for the next 2 minutes. My PC suddenly restarts when it's done but still has no video and the CPU light remains on on the board like it did when I had no cpu in. Any suggestions?
I have the same mono and cpu. Download the latest one from the website. Follow the steps. Then put ram, cpu, gpu and back in and boot it up it will take it straight to the bios menu
I have no idea what I’m doing
Same, brother. Same.
So I have a x570 tomahawk. When I press the button my pc turns on, then a white lite flashes next to the port/button. After about 5 mins ish the light doesn't stop flashing but the pc reboots (and still doesn't post) ibguesd this means the update is failing?
Very important!!!
Because some people use the front case USB ports when they copy bios on stick and most are 3.0
Those 2 ports where he sticks the USB are 2.0 ( the red ones are 3.0 or 3.1 ).
So when you copy the bios use the same USB port for copying/installing, never ever mix them like copy on USB 2.0 port and trying to install on USB 3.0 port, or else it will give errors!
Same thing when installing Windows from USB, always use the same USB port 2.0 or 3.0 for copying and installing never mix them.
If you are using a USB 2.0 device in a USB 3.0 port, would that still impact, or would it default to the 2.0 protocol?
@@kamaronwoods7733 Nope, the error only occurs when you copy the windows on a different port version and try to install it on other port version, like copy on USB 2.0 port and try to install it on USB 3.0 port, it happened to me to, I was like wtf, why I get errors at 97-98% when installing windows.Had to google some for a while.
Always use same USB ports when copy/install the windows/bios, the errors occur because there's a difference in data between ports when you do the copy.
Never had problem with the USB device using it in higher or lower port.
But if some strange error occurs than ppl should know the culprit.
thank you so much, this worked!