Major problem with MSI K7T Pro2A

[tjdavis1138]

What's sad is that I flashed it a couple of days ago with v2.0 and everything went fine. Then I see that MSI has released v2.1 and that's when it went south.

 

[LXi]

Should've stay with manual DOS flashing.

 

[tjdavis1138]

You can bet I won't do it again. I used LiveBios both times. It worked once, why not again.....

 

[LXi]

If its just v2.1s, its probably the BIOS, rather than the LiveBIOS program, that messed up.

 

[tjdavis1138]

I've flashed more bios chips than I can remember and this is the first time I've ever had a problem.

 

[LXi]

Well the way you flashed it is a little different than before, so things can happen. Just call them up, ask for an RMA and stay positive.

 

[Lanyap]

Have you tried the BIOS boot recovery feature?
http://www.msi.com.tw/support/bios/main.htm#

 

[tjdavis1138]

I'm going to give that a try, but I don't think it even makes it to the point of checking the floppy.

Here's hoping..........

 

[RGN]

You DON'T need the same board to do the hot swap trick... I guess the LX6 doesn't have the same socket?

Do you know what an I-Opener is? I bought a BH6 just to flash the I-Opener BIOS in it...

 

[lagvoid]

good luck! i hate that feeling of being stuck

 

[tjdavis1138]

I found another motherboard with the same type of socket and it didn't work. When it booted up to the a: I switched the chips and typed in the flash command it went to the flash screen then just stayed there forever. Didn't give me any error messages, but didn't work either.

Oh well,

 

[tjdavis1138]

That's the motherboard I'm using is a BH-6. I don't know what an I-opener is.

At least I didn't trash the BH-6 when I tried it.

 

[Buddabudda]

When you use the award bios flash the bottom box displays 'verifying error', you need to wait while the bios 'thinks' and it starts the flash procedure normally. If you reboot at any time during that proceedure you are screwed. Why the flash starts with that error message I don't know, it a pretty stupid message to show. See if MSI has any suggestions for fixing a borked bios flash. It's usually motherboard replacement situation =(. You may want to try re-flashing the bios from the bootable floppy. That's how you did it in the first place right? But with a borked bios you probably won't even get to the boot sequence to access the floppy. Just NEVER EVER touch anything during a bios flash, even if you got to wait 10 minutes and call customer support. It's one of the most touchy, if not THE most touchy proceedures when tweaking your system.

 

[RGN]

look at the command switches for AWDflash. There is a one that will force the flash.