PSA: DO NOT UPDATE BIOS VIA MSI CENTER
Windows automatically updating the BIOS
Its not windows it's whatever MSI update program you are using.
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I would be careful about updating bios for that board. I have this board and after I attempted to upgrade my bios my computer will not boot anymore, the Ez Debug is stuck on the CPU light, I get no power to my mouse and keyboard and nothing displays on my monitors
I done some digging and on the MSI forums there are posts about the z490 boards being bricked by the newer bios upgrades, since there is no flash button on the motherboard it's not straight forward to fix
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/warning-z490-boards-problem-with-recent-bios-updates.367575/
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They will probably be beta forever
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So 2 days ago I was exploring MSI Center because even though I've had it installed for months i never really took a good look at it. I discovered the option of downloading and installing an updated BIOS. I was like cool that saves me the hassle of downloading it, putting it on a flashdrive, plugging it into the back of my PC, booting into my BIOS, selecting M-Flash and letting it do it's thing. I can just let MSI Center do everything. I selected it, it downloaded it then said installing, Windows logged me out, then my PC shutdown, kind of. My Case fans remained on, and my RGB just started flashing randomly. I let it do this for about 20 minutes and finally said f*** this, something isn't right. So I held down the power button and still nothing, so I turned my PSU off, then turned it back on and hit my power button and the same thing happened except this time I got a nice steady CPU led debug light, and a black screen showing no signal going to my TV. In the end I ended up using my laptop to download the updated bios, and using the Flash BIOS button on my mobo and that worked. So yeah long story short, stick to the traditional ways of updating your bios on a msi board, using m-flash or the bios flash button. And really MSI needs to remove that option from MSI Center because it's a bricked mobo waiting to happen.