Help!!! with 970A-G46 Bios Update / Asus R9 280x Dcu II

Ok so i recently got the Asus r9 280x dcu II card for ugrading and when i installed it, i started the computer, but i was not getting anything on my monitor. The computer works fine with my old gpu Radeon HD 7770, but when i installed this one, the computer would not post.
Im wondering if it is my motherboard bios that i need to update in order for it to post because i have not updated my bios yet and maybe the card only works if my motherboard is on the latest bios.
Also about the bios update. Last night i tried to update and i got to update to version 1.B0 (1.11). But i checked for new bios at the support download page for this board and saw that new versions were at the 2.0 level and the latest bios is version 2.6.
I tried to update the bios with the version 2.6 .exe file in a formatted flash drive but everytime the pc restarted, it would not go to the bios update screen. And also on the bios menu when i click on m fash it did not work it gave me a message which i cant remember right now.
I would appreciate the help.
Thanks

Yesss!!!! I got it to work. All i had to do was clear my cmos and it worked

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So recently my computer has started having issues where it will just freeze out of nowhere leaving me only with sound, no mouse, no keyboard, i believe a still image on the screen (cant tell due to the mouse/keyboard).
Either way, so i figured i would go about and update all of my drivers, while updating my BIOS drivers, my computer had one of these freezes and i was careless enough to hit the restart button...
So now whenever i try and boot my computer, i am left with a pure black screen, and nothing else...
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
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Quote from: Froggy Gremlin on 27-May-13, 09:00:08
Try a battery removed CMOS clear and reset. The freeze may have been RAM, PSU, VGA related. A BIOS update is firmware, etc., no drivers involved. A list of system components may be of help in the troubleshooting process;
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So after doing that, i plugged it back in, and got a long squealing beep tone so i immediately unplugged it... im also a huge retard, and powered it on while i had the jumpers on clear data... i feel retarded and i hope i didn't just break my motherboard even more... D':
Quote from: dejanf on 27-May-13, 09:21:29
Pls note that bios v2 can be updated only if you using Windows 8. Otherway update will fail, and your mobo is "bricked"
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/970A-G46.html#/?div=BIOS
it was the top one on the page
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Sorry if this should be in the BIOS forum, wasn't 100% sure. Long story short...
i2600k
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GTX460
I was trying to update the board to the latest BIOS. I didn't realize the file/method from the MSI website was so problematic. I ran E7681vP8.exe from within windows, the BIOS was updated and it then rebooted the system to update to ME8. It never got to the ME update and I was stuck in an infinite reboot loop. Power on for 10 seconds, then off, then back on again. Tried everything I could think of to get the system back. Cleared CMOS via button and battery, no change. Rotates ram sticks in slot 2, disconnected everything but USB keyboard and plugged the monitor into the DVI port on the board, no change. This was last night and I had already setup my RMA when I decided to try one more CMOS clear this morning before packaging everything up. Well the Gremlins decided to let it power on and POST this morning! I hit F1 to enter setup and here is the problem...
It's now asking me to insert my USB key I'm assuming to now do the ME8 update... Well I formatted the USB drive I was using with the forum tool last night in an attempt to revive the board, so I don't have the extracted files from the MSI EXE from the website.
I downloaded the EXE again, but I can't get it to run/extract the files since it's only set to run on this board (I'm on a Lenovo laptop). I tried WinRAR, 7-Zip, and Universal Extractor on the EXE to try and just get the files back on the USB. None of those work.
So the system is on and I'm stuck at the screen asking for the USB key. I don't want to power it off/cycle it in case that screws up the update somehow.
Can someone else with this board download the EXE directly from MSI, run it on a USB key (you don't have to update the BIOS to get the files to extract) and maybe upload the contents? Or Mods do you have another suggestion on how to continue?
Thanks!

Quote from: jmunchies1 on 02-April-13, 07:23:05
Well I'm REALLY regretting upgrading to this BIOS as it's killed my overclock :(
Before I was stable with a 2600k @ 4.5Ghz with just 1.325 vcore. Now I'm up to 1.35 vcore and I'm still not stable :( Keep getting this BSOD:
"A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated interval".
IBT and prime95 keep causing that BSOD. I don't understand why the BIOS update is requiring such a huge increase in vcore.
Because it is a 'compromise' UEFI/BIOS designed to allow function of both Sandy and Ivy CPUs on a mainboard originally designed on the Sandy Bridge platform. It's a shame that the GD65(G3) Ivy update does not function as well as the GD80(G3) vJ21 version does.

970A-G46 BIOS update failed

Good day,
I have tried to update my bios but it failed. When I restarted my computer it gives me 2 short beeps the whole time.
I have tried the recovery methods posted on https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=119375.0 but it doesn't seem to work.
I downloaded the 7693v18.zip driver from the MSI website because the newest drivers only have exe's inside and not the rom file everyone is talking about. So I tried to put that file on a usb flash (Formated as FAT) alone and with the exe file with no luck and also renamed it to AMIBOOT.ROM and also AMIBIOS.ROM, but nothing seems to work. The computer starts reading from the flash immediately and stop beeping but after that nothing happen, I left it for more than 5 minutes without any response.
So I tried the same method with a DVD, then when the computer power on it beeps 2 times, start reading from the DVD for about 1minute and then beep again 2times in a infinite loop. I have tried older ROM files also just to make sure my ROM file is working, still the same results.
Another thing that is bothering me is that everyone is talking about a combination of keys they must press to get it to force flash the bios. So far in my case it doesn't make a diffrence if I press ctrl + home or ctrl + page up or just not pressing anything. It always beeps and do what I mentioned above. My keyboard's num lock leds also do not respond when I press it.
I have removed all SATA drives and usb drives when I am testing it and I used a PS2 keyboard. I also removed my all my RAM and just put 1 of them in the slot nearest to the CPU. The motherboard doesnt have a onboard graphics card so I kept the dedicated one in. I also cleared the CMOS and removed the battery if someone was wondering.
Do someone maybe have any other suggestions for me, because it seems like the computer is still alive its just I need the correct file name, rom or something.
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After recently replacing my ssd (had the same on before old one died from physical damage) and psu I cannot install windows 8.
I get to the prepairing devices phase and it stops close to 100% and goes to a black screen. I'm assuming this is the phase where the boards peripheral controllers ect are prepped and something is not finishing.
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I am having the same issue. There is a utility in the bios to update itself but raw bios files are not available with v2.0 and higher(that I can Find). When I boot from my bootable 256MB flash drive (the same drive I use for all bios updates). I get the same error that the OP got "The tool does not support this board". What the hell? I have probably updated hundreds of BIOSs and have never seen such crap(except once with a crappy Foxconn early-UEFI MB). Usually there are multiple methods and I can get 1 to work. If MSI just would make the raw ROM for the BIOS to do it itself.
Their website is also jacked. If I go to the US site for this board, no BIOS updates are listed, I have to go to the www site. There are also versions of the site with 970ag46 in the address but you can get to almost the same site with 970a-g46 (an added dash) but it will have different downloads. I am sick of sites in general having crappy quality control.
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Sata hot swap possible with 970a-g46? If so, how?

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Basically i got a new game for my PC (Halo) which wouldnt play properly even though my specs were all way above recommended. This is my specs
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