MSI 970A-G43 MS-7693 Bios

[Gray1]

I have an older board listed in title. I need to upgrade the processor on it or just buy another motherboard. I wanted to try and upgrade first. Problem is that my bios just shows V10.0 When I go to the support website it lists all the bios with an A.1 - A.6. It doesn't show anything about V.10.0. I am concerned about these being the correct bios for the motherboard. I called MSI tech support and lets just say they had no idea what I was talking about and recommended that I not flash the bios. Which wasn't much help. Anybody ran into this before? Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

Gray1

 

[daveybrat]

Yes, A.6 is the latest bios for your board. What cpu do you have now? What did you want to upgrade to?

 

[Gray1]

Right now it has a Athlon II X4 630 Propus. I was thinking of a 965 Deneb. You have any other suggestions? I hesitate to throw alot of money at the board. It is old.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Iron Woode]

I don't see why the PII x4 965 BE wouldn't work on your board. I just checked and the board supports your cpu as of BIOS A.0.

so you are fine.

 

[Gray1]

This bios version of V10.0 has me confused. You think V10.0 and Bios A.0 are the same? Or are you saying I need to flash the bios to at lease A.0?

Thanks for your time.

 

[daveybrat]

While your motherboard technically supports 125Watt cpu's, i wouldn't risk it. Stick with 95Watt cpu's. Your board has no heatsinks on the mosfets or vrm's. Go with maybe an FX-6300 or an FX8320E cpu as an upgrade.

 

[Iron Woode]

This bios version of V10.0 has me confused. You think V10.0 and Bios A.0 are the same? Or are you saying I need to flash the bios to at lease A.0?

Thanks for your time.

if you are not sure of your BIOS version, you could install cpu-z. and check the board tab there. However, 10.0 is probably the same as A.0 since A=10 in Hexadecimal.

I say try cpu-z.

 

[ReignQuake]

Sometimes MSI changes the way it labels it's Bios updates. My bios ended up with 1.F or something, and then all of the new updates have been 1.0 - 1.4 when realistically the latest would be 1.10.

If you're sure of your motherboard model I wouldn't be too worried about it.

 

[Gray1]

I went ahead and flashed with the A.6 Bios. Everything went fine and now Cpuz shows the Bios at 10.6.....So there you go. Now I'm on the hunt on Ebay for a FX-6300, Thanks for the help guys. Not sure why MSI tech support couldn't help me.

Thanks again
Gray