Black screen - No Post FX790-GD70

I was adding a 2nd hard disk and accidentally "plugged" the sata cable into the ide port (i know it sounds ridiculous) and the box froze up... so i unplugged everything, rebooted and it got stuck after it initialized the USB it sits at this screen - i then cleared the CMOS and unplugged everything except the video card and now it just posts to a black screen...... arrrrrrg! what can i do? This is a total noob move and I was in a rush and I'm kicking myself for potentially shorting out my board which was running like a champ earlier today...... what can I do? I left it unplugged for about 30 min and tried again and it just sits there with nothing on the screen......

Quote from: flobelix on 05-January-13, 06:05:53
Better update to the latest version but board will in any case be updateable with the new cpu installed (unlike on Intel boards where unsupported cpus usually cause no posting).
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/990FXA-GD80.html#/?div=BIOS
>>Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<<
awesome thank u!

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