After spending hours looking around online, and through the manuals, I found the "fix" in a youtube comment.
Who: To put a specific product in here, I have a MSI X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI. Page 45 of your manual shows the bios recovery options. These are less a how to, and more, engineer shorthand that needs clarification.
What happened: New board, 3600 Gskill Neo (AMD), and 3600x. Installed windows. Applied XMP profile.Bricked system.Reset bios, had to pull battery and wait like 10 min before it would actually clear settings and load default. Tried to update from release bios on board, to abba version bios.Bricked system. HARD.........Attempted Bios recover, spent hours frustrated, about to RMA the board. Youtube comments to the rescue.
What needs to happen to prevent this: Clarification added to the mostly blank page. Seriously, validate this, then copy and paste it into new runs.... It will save your brand name and needless returns, as all these bricked boards that cant seem to be recovered are more then likely recoverable with some formatting of USB drives....
Add something like this please:
Full instruction list (Windows 10 steps):
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Step1 - Prepare USB drive. *If your USB drive is already FAT32 with MBR you may skip to Step2
* * * Warning- All data on this drive will be lost, backup if needed * * *
-- Insert USB drive into operating computer
---- Type in start search bar or command prompt, "Diskpart"
---------- Type "List Disk" and identify the number for your USB drive. (Use the disk size and correlate to your USB drive.) ---------- Type "sel dis (disk number from previous command)"
---------- Type "Clean"
----------------"DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk."
---------- Type "convert mbr"
---------------- "DiskPart successfully converted the selected disk to MBR format."
---------- Type "create partition primary"
---------------- "DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition."
---------- Close tool
---- Press Windows key + E
----------- Right click "This PC," Select "Manage"
----------- In the left pane of the "Computer management" window, select "Disk Management"
----------- Right click the newly created "Raw - Healthy (Primary Partiton)"
----------- Select "Format..."
----------- Clear volume name, Verify file system is "FAT32" and that allocation size is default.
---------------- Format Window should close, drive should populate in windows.
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Step 2 - Download desired BIOS *Must match your exact board! Files usually download as zip file.
-- Open download location
-- Right click on download zip file. Example: 7C37v13. zip -- Select "Extract All..."
------ Select a save location, and "Show files when complete"
----------- Folder opens, find bios file, (May be in sub folder.) Example: E7C37AMS.130
-- Press Windows key + E, navigate to thumb drive
-- Drop bios file from extracted folder, onto prepared thumb drive.
-- RENAME FILE: "MSI.ROM" (Make sure entire name is selected, including the info after the period. Example: E7C37AMS.130 becomes MSI.ROM)
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Step 3, follow this video for flashing instructions. (Insert drive into bios flashing USB port, press the bios flash button, board will turn on, a flashing light on the board near the button, and indicator light if available on usb will indicate to you it is flashing.) No board function or USB drive turns on for a few seconds then off is probably a formatting issue, revisit step 1.
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A few months ago, I encountered a problem while updating the BIOS on my MSI Mortar Max motherboard. During the update, a power outage occurred, interrupting the process and rendering my motherboard unbootable. I was worried that the motherboard might have been damaged beyond repair, and I searched the internet for solutions. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any that applied to my specific issue. Many people told me that if a motherboard doesn't have a dual BIOS feature, the only option is to replace it.
But then I remembered that the MSI Mortar Max has a feature called M-Flash. M-Flash is a button on the motherboard that allows you to reflash the BIOS even if you can't boot into the system. I grabbed my BIOS update file and a USB drive, and then I followed the instructions for using M-Flash to recover the BIOS. It was a nerve-wracking process, as I wasn't sure if it would work. However, to my relief, the reflash was successful, and my motherboard was able to boot up again.
I was grateful to have the M-Flash feature available, as it saved me from having to replace the motherboard. This experience taught me the importance of having a backup plan in place, even when it comes to seemingly straightforward tasks like updating the BIOS. If your motherboard has a similar feature, it could be a useful resource to have in case of any issues.