MSI's Live Bios Updater is faulty!!

[jayovainieie]

I bought parts to build a system from a place called netlink computers in B.C., and they got here fine. I assembled my system and i had it running for about a week or two with no problems. Then one night i decided to try the Live Bios Updater and I installed the latest version fine, but that version was faulty, it put my soundcard on the same IRQ as my video card(i think that's what happened, it was about 3 weeks ago), so i did it again but i told it to install the 2nd latest version of my bios (2.1 I think) and in the middle of it it got a "verify error", and it restart its self, didn't post and started beeping. The board is a really good board, but I think that the live bios updater is stupid! They should call it the "MSI Live Mobo Screwer"

 

[davidwiz]

Its too bad you didnt read this board before trying the Live Bios, there have been numerous threads about this problem over the past month.
Good luck trying to fix your problem.

 

[nickdakick]

Well, I had some experiences with MSI myself so... First Pro2A died 2 weeks after installation, second Pro2A now is acting like described above assigning USB hub to same IRQ as vid card which makes my ISDN connection via external USB device extremly laggy. Does anyone know a solution without downgrading the BIOS ?

 

[rbV5]

I've noticed that alot of the problems with the live bios is from flashing to the same bios rev. you already have, Why would you do that anyway? Doesn't your bios either work or not work? Flashing your bios can be dangerous no matter how you do it. If you want to manually assign IRQ's, set your OS up using the Standard PC Hal during set up. Sharing IRQ's with an ACPI Hal, is normal and likely is not the cause of your lagging modem.

 

[Mem]

nickdakick I believe there have been quite a few emails to MSI about this from some major hardware Websites, the USB Irq sharing problem with Video card,so hopefully they should correct this in there next Bios update.

 

[Davegod75]

numero uno rule of bios flashing!

Never EVER EVER try to flash your bios in windows. It's much safer just to use a boot disk.