Live update5, BIOS update MSI 970A-G43

Hi, best regards
I have MB MSI 970A-G43 and current BIOS version is 10.0
I have installed Liveupdate5 and scan for BIOS, and the program said that my Mobo have the latest BIOS.
On the official site there are v10.1 and v10.2
How to flash, update BIOS securely?
Thanks in advance...

Never flash using Live update.
Download the latest bios (>>10.2<<) manually and >>use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<< to flash.

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Freezing issues with MSI 970A-G43 and AMD FX 8320

Hey all,
I bought my brother a new system a few days ago, but he has had serious issues with the machine crashing ever since.
The machine has had a fresh installation of Windows 7, it has all the latest drivers for both motherboard, sound, chipset and video card (Latest VGA driver tested as well as the latest Beta version)
I thought the problem might be with the VGA card, as the computer would just shut off during 3d Gaming, but it also seems to happen when surfing the internet or doing normal "2d" activities
What happens is the computer will just seemingly shut off, the LED lights on the front of the case, around the dials, start blinking and the only way to get it back up again, is to turn if off at the power supply unit and then turn it back on again.
I'll paste in what my brother sent me (As I live in the UK and can't see the machine crashing myself), he said:
I dunno what the issue is but, last night the comp just shut off in middle of game play on 3 different games, and the lights were flashing, I had to turn complete power off to the power box and back on to restart comp, I kept checking all my temps with speccy and speed fan and nothing seemed high at all, also when it shuts off and I re start it, a lot of my desktop icons move around to different spots,
Update: crashed a few times on me, once playing euro, once just browsing Internet 5 min after the first one, changed out ram just for shots and giggles and ran euro on ultra for about 5 min and crashed. I dl a gpu monitor gadget, was accurate on temp but said the gpu was 0% but with just Internet would randomly jump to 99% or 40% then back to 0 and would stay and eventually crash
Spec is:
AMD FX-8320 3.5GHZ EIGHT CORE
500GB SATA III 6GB/S 7200RPM 16MB
COOLERMASTER SEIDON 120M WATER COOLER
4Gb DDR3 / 1600 MHZ MEMORY
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CORSAIR 500 WATTS CX500 V2 80 PLUS POWER SUPPLY
ASUS XONAR DG 5.1 CHANNELS PCI XONAR DG SOUND CARD
AMD RADEON 7750 2GB PCI-E
There was a concern I did have when I did search earlier, via a thread on Tomshardware in which a similiar board had issues with the FX8350's wattage going above the stated 125 watts and causing the board to freeze.
It's a different board/chip, but I wonder if the wattage of the CPU goes above 125W and causes problems on the board? Hmm
I feel really guilty right now, because I bought this for him as a present, it was $700ish plus shipping etc and it's been nothing but problems ever since.
I'm going to see what version of Bios he's running when he gets out of bed, but the Live Update software said there were no updates, but I'll have him check manually.
Another issue I noted, was I sent him some ram before the PC arrived, which was:
XMS3 — 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1333C9)
He originally put that ram in with the existing 4gb of ram, so I thought it "Might" be a conflict, due to them having a different Mhz value
So I had him remove the 4gb stick that came with the PC
As soon as he entered the bios, it froze and did so twice
So he removed that ram and put back the original 4gb stick and the bios worked
No idea if the two are related.

I hope this doesn't count as necro-ing a thread (last post was in October), but it's the one closest to my situation.
I have the following setup:
MSI 970a-g43 motherboard
AMD FX-6300 cpu
ATI Radeon HD 4550 graphics card
4x 2GB RAM sticks
2x 500 GB 3.5" SATA hard drives
CoolMax 700W psu
16x r/rw DVD burner
cheapo SD and others card reader that fits in the floppy drive bay
Older PC tower that has a temperature sensor built into it
I built it around November 15th, and it worked until a couple days ago (December 12th I think), when it started doing the sudden shut-off thing. Same as Adresch described: shuts off, tower light blinks, have to flip the i/o switch off and back on to boot again. I consulted a friend for some suggestions, and he said I should put a water cooler in there, because the stock heatsink that comes with most processors are junk. So I went out and bought a Corsair H55 water cooler and installed that.
The computer seemed to run for a bit longer before shutting off. I loaded up the BIOS software, SpeedFan, and HWMonitor. SF said the CPU was running average of 48*C, and GPU was averaging 51*C. The CPU's highest was at 61*C and its lowest was 36*C. BIOS software said CPU was at 35*C the whole time. HWMonitor listed the GPU at 51*C, and the CPU at 7*C. These are all very inconsistent with each other as far as I can tell, so I don't know what to make of these readings. Didn't seem to much matter as the computer continued shutting off.
My options then being replacing the PSU or the motherboard, I decided to replace the power supply, since I was just within the 30 days. Switched for a ThermalTake TR2 700W. Before installing it, I pulled the tower's CPU temperature sensor wire from between the water cooler heatsink and the CPU, just in case. Then I installed the PSU, checked and rechecked all of the connections, and turned it on.
Nothing.
I then spent the next two hours rechecking everything, even unplugging everything and putting it back together. Still nothing. The best I could get was a flicker of the tower light and the fans doing a quarter turn before ceasing movement. The red LED on the front of the SD card reader stayed on the entire time, though, so I guess it was getting at least a trickle of power. I also removed everything but the PSU, motherboard, CPU, and one stick of RAM. Still no power. I think the new PSU may have been open box, so I'm returning it today for a different one, and even bumping it up to 850W.
I'm not sure that will solve my original issue though, so I'll be looking for a heatsink to put on the VRMS as mentioned. Just thought I'd get this down in a relevant thread in case anyone had other thoughts on what could be going on.

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The other problem lies with the nvidia 790i chipset
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Above is link to nvidia admitting to the problem. Below another source just one of thousands, all you have to do to find them is type in the words nvidia data corruption into google.
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To be honest it is just one of hundreds and hundreds having these major issues and its to easy to find people having the same problem. Bios update has been released for xfx asus and other 790i reference boards will MSI release one too? Asus has released about 6 bios updates so far at least. I know this is a new board I do not require six bios updates just one that makes the motherboard work the way it is meant too
This puts me in a hard position. If i wait to see if a bios will fix it I may not be able to return the motherboard. The bios update may not fix the issue at all anyhow. I am really sick of returning these things and would love to get one that works. I feel if I have to do it again I will not buy another motherboard and will seek alternate options as I am that tired of rebuilding this computer and struggling to make it work the way its capabilities are being advertised as.
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This computer has cost around 6 grand and is a major business investment for me. Ive already had to cancel a major penrith gig because I can't guarantee my gear works, and if it does not stable. I could of spent 1/4 that amount and achieved similar performance.

Quote from: MarkJohnson on 10-July-08, 00:43:11
One issue that may be hindering you is the amount of power being supplied by your motherboard to your PCIe card. The motherboard allows for 75W to be used by the PCIe for graphics cards, and with that many you may be depleting your system of power. This was an issue for some DFI boards a while back and now DFI adds extra power connectors to their motherboards at both of the main graphic PCIe connectors. Not sure if this board supports that option. but you definitely have way more than enough power to run your system without your PSU breaking a sweat.
If you need a quad-DVI board, some of the ATI 3870x2 cards have quad-DVI ports, usually the OC editions. not sure if MSI makes one yet. but you will lose SLI and crossfire won't work on that board. but they should work as 2 separate cards for 8 DVI ports. Also, ATI supports multi-monitor suport in crossfire mode as SLI doesn't or didn't last I checked.
Asus Quad-DVI 3870x2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121247
as for waiting for a BIOS update, I'd definitely not wait past the deadline if it won't do exactly what you NEED. I find sometimes a BIOS fix never comes or there may be a bad design and a there's no possible way to fix things in a BIOS update.
Good luck
-=Mark=-
Ironic because I was discussing this speculation with a mate of mine. I Think it is highly likely, I also think it is a 790i chipset flaw / or a problem occuring with 3 gx2 initial pcie power drain. We where disussing the exact thing.
We also discuss alot of ATI options, hell they are the new nvidia as far as performance is concerned. There cpu's still suck sorry amd.
Hell you remind me alot of this mate of mine o0* wierd.
Anyway the only thing stopping me from going ati considering pending improvements to crossfire, and with pciex16 on second pcie ati crossfireboard now fairly standard removing bottlenecks, Is the fact I am not aware of a ati version of NVIEW
I know there is a old replica of NVIEW that may have been part of its devolpment process.
http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/
Notice is similiarities. Does it work with ATI, is it expried software. I am yet to find out.
Also I belive you are right. Having 8 pin power plugged into the mobo and it still dying like that leads me to belive no bios update can ever fix such a thing.
Its a shaky contraversal market atm.

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I some chatting skype, videochat when alone shutdown screen black, when pc run cooler nothing stoped. find issue and corrected connects powers are fine.
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Here Are my System Specs Before I post the question
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GPU: evga gtx 770 nvidia
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i happy, mobo working again.
I build SPI programer and connect to JPSI1. Then upload bios file to nand. Now is working again.
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Piers.

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;
>> Posting Guide <<
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
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I purchased my main a week ago, the bus of my rams are 1600 but main detect it 1333. So i updated my bios of 2.7 to 2.10 with live update 5, after the updating progress finished my pc restarted, it doest give any picture and after 20 sec reastart again and again!
I shorted the jumper, i brought out the battery but it didn't have any result. Please tell me a solution. And forgave me for my poor english. My pc:
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RAM defaulting to DDR3 1333 is common as the SPD profile of the chips is set for that. For 1600, either manual setting is required or X.M.P. can be tried if the modules have X.M.P. profile.
Live Update bricked your board. Solution is to take the mainboard to a shop with an SPI flash programming device, or obtain RMA for an MSI Service Center, or contact your reseller for instruction.
Next time you need to flash, do it the safe way;
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=161593.0

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