How I recovered from nVidia System Utility "Damaging" my K8N Neo2 Platinum

Question

The posts I read said to reset CMOS and Reflash. Neither worked.  So here's what I did.
The first thing I tried was just reset the CMOS.  No go.  Then I wanted to re-flash, but my floppy wouldn't read.  So I did:
1) With Power Supply Plugged into wall and turned on, reset the CMOS
2) Turned off power supply and unplugged from wall.
3) Removed CMOS battery
4) Reinstalled CMOS battery
5) Waited another minute for capacitors to fully flush any remaining charge
6) Reflash BIOS
After that, 100% back to normal.  
Now in reality, I'm thinking if I would have turned off/unplugged my power supply, and then reset CMOS via jumper, waited a minute, and rebooted then reflash, I'd be ok.  So you could simply the steps above and try that.  But those steps above worked 100%.
Hope this helps someone in the future!

Answer 1

MSI Warn about 1) in manual
Quote
(P34 7025)
MSI Reminds You...
You can clear CMOS by shorting 2-3 pin while the system is off.
Avoid clearing the CMOS while the
system is on; it will damage the mainboard.
There are two methods for clearing the Bios:-
1) Short Mathod
1-1) disconnect the power cable.
1-2) push the power button to drain the capacitors
1-3) Move the CMOS jumper to the clear position, from it's original 1-2 position to 2-3
1-4) Wait a minute to be sure the CMOS has been cleared. Take your Time
1-5) Return the CMOS jumper to it's original position 1-2
1-6) Plug in power cable.
1-7)restart computer
1-8) enter bios and select load optimized Bios defaults - save & exit
1-9) let pc reboot, if you have any settings you want changing do them now.
like hard disk boot order etc.,
1-10) hopefully youll boot to windows
2) Long Reset (Battery Removed)
From Syar2003 21-11-04 03:02 Thread 5 Short Beeps
Try disconnecting the AC Lead from PSU .
push the power button to drain the capacitors
Remove the battery for the cmos rom .
And place the jbat jumper in discharge (check manual for instructions) .
Leave it until tomorrow like this .
Later ,, first set the jumper back in "keep cmos" position .
Mount the battery .
Connect AC to the PSU .
And try starting the computer .
When/if bios posts with cmos checksum error .. press F1 or "del" key
Dont use F1 but hit "del" key
and load optimized BIOS defaults + save + exit