790GX-G65 bad flash

Hello,
I'm new here, and of course that's because I made a stupid mistake (or more than one).
I was informed that I could 'unlock' the fourth core on my AMD Phenom II (on http://us.msi.com/landing/amd_quadcore/amd_quadcore.html) so that seemed worth the risk of trying. I followed their instructions and when I rebooted the system didn't work anymore, except for some serious beeping.
I panicked a little but with the 'Clear CMOS' button I was able to get back into the BIOS, and got my system to work again.
Still wanting to try to 'unlock' the fourth core, I found an updated 1.5 BIOS with Support for the "CPU Core Control" function.
(on http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=bios&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1739)
I checked, and was running 1.4 at the time.
I downloaded 1.5 and updated it through M-flash. It seemed to work just fine until when rebooted back in the M-flash section of the BIOS, with no other options.
I now suspect this may have been booted from the USB-stick (or the dual boot thing, I am not sure). As the only thing I could do in the BIOS-menu was to update the BIOS again, I tried. This time it gave a warning that the version did not match something, but i don't remember what.
This could have been a smart point not to go ahead with that same flash, but I did. It again seemed to update the BIOS, but this time it would not boot at all anymore.
The computer remained on on a black screen. After a couple minutes I restarted the system to see if it would boot, but nope. Fans start running, lights come on, I hear the HD spinning up, but no reaction. I tried with and without the USB-stick, but no responses. Screen never seems to get any signal.
Guess I really screwed this BIOS up now, and hope there still is a way to fix this.
Still kinda new at this and have been reading a lot to find an answer.
I found stuff about hotswapping the BIOS (kinda hard since it is soldered on), using floppydisks (where can I still find one of those?), or using certain key-combinations on PS2-keyboards, but I finally got a bit scared and thought to ask you before screwing it up even more, if possible.
Hope you can help.
This is my hardware, if you need more info please let me know. I (was) run(ning) Windows 7 Ultimate RC.
MSI 790GX-G65, 790GX+SB750, Socket-AM3, DDR3, ATX, 2xPCI-Ex(2.0)x16, GbLan, HDMI, DVI
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition, Triple Core, 2,8Ghz, AM3, 95W, Boxed
Antec NSK4480B Mini Tower Case, Black, w/380W PSU
Samsung DVD±RW burner, SH-S223B 22x DVD, DVDRAM, SATA, Black, Bulk
Crucial DDR3 1333MHz 4GB KIT, CL9, Kit w/two matched DDR3 2GB, 240pin
Samsung spinpoint T166 SATA 500 GB
Samsung SyncMaster 245B Plus connected through DVI on the onboard Radeon HD3300[/li]
Thanks in advance!

Ok seeing how nobody knows the answer to your problems and which I know, nobody wants to be in a position where a bad flash has gone awry. I have to tell everyone here that MSI has screwed up bigtime on its latest bios revision for this mainboard! there seems to be a fatal error when flashing with the M-flash. MSI seriously needs to add a note to the new .150 bios and add DO NOT FLASH THIS BIOS WITH M-FLASH AS IT WILL BRICK YOUR MOTHERBOARD, USE HQ MSI USB TOOL INSTEAD well thats the sad truth about it all. I was in your same position and all of this could have been avoided with a little note attached to the new bios update. Now here´s the good news  you can recover it with the help of some czech programmers and a little ingenuity. follow the trail and put it all together in order to learn how to flash the damaged bios through the spi diagnostic port, no need to desolder or anyother physical hack. heres a diagram of the boards diagnostic port, numbers are based on a parallel header. you will need 4 150 ohm resistors 1/4 watt, skip the 1uf cap in the schematic from here http://www.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/spi/msi_spi.html as you do not need an external power source. VCC is unused in our case as the motherboard still boots standby power. Run CWSDPMI.EXE before SPIPGM.EXE
SChematic in order to build the cable
the following commands are used to identify, erase and finally flash the dead bios chip
SPIPGM.exe /i
SPIPGM /e
SPIPGM /p bios.120 (i used bios version 1.2 to be on the safe side)
MSI JSPI1 PIN HEADER ASSIGNMENT
     Vcc  |o o|  Vcc <-- (both not used)
10   SO  |o o|   SI   9
 7   CS# |o o| SCLK   8
     GND  |o o|  GND  18
      n.c. |o  |
            `---'
summary
1. Build an SPI Cable and install header pins on jspi1 port
2. Leave the computer connected in standby power and attach the cable to the jspi1 pinout and attach the parrallel end to another computer booting DOS (for example I built a custom freedos bootdisc with said programs)
3. run the spi server then run the spi software
4. detect, erase, flash
5turn pc on and learn from your mistakes
Optional flash the new 150 bios with the HQ MSI USB TOOL!
Cheers , RadiatedAnt

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        This is what I've tried so far to get RAM up to 1600mhz with no avail . BTW running in Dimms 3+4 (the two furthest from CPU socket)at the moment !
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    4) tried lowering HT and NB ratios along with CPU multiplier and raising FSB using 1.2 and 1.3.3 memory dividers to get ram up to 1600 without overclocking the CPU ......... no luck !   
    5) about every combination of 1-4
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      I'm alittle lost as to what to try next ,but I'd sure like to try to get the RAM up to 1600mhz instead of 1333mhz ,regardless of , the performance difference ( I read the post about AMD 1333 vs 1600 performance BTW )
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     Like I said earlier NEW MSI Customer ,,have played with a few older MSI boards ,but they were much older and other folks . This is the first MSI purchase made by myself , so far I 'm liking what I see 
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    Quote from: Fredrik on 20-May-09, 04:43:58
    Do not have this board myself, but it may have to do with the memory used.  OCZ memory's name says it all:
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         Thanks for the input ,,, any and all comments or suggestions are appreciated !

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    Quote from: Hans on 04-February-10, 01:31:23
    @websherpa: different board, start your own topic. Do not hijack this one.
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    What is in your system, we don't know much: >>Posting Guide<<
    Read the guide this time.
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