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Update:
I ended up going for bios emulation because the nouveau dri wasn't cutting it for running vms. As best I can tell, the apple firmware loader just loads the first partition marked as bootable in the hybrid mbr, so I couldn't get the efi grub to boot both windows and linux. The same thing happens for me in refit -- it sees both the windows and linux installs, but selecting either one just boots the first partition marked as bootable. Maybe that's just something screwy particular to my system though.
The problem above made me come to the conclusion that I've pretty much got to chain bootloaders together if I want to triple-boot. I guess grub-bios needs it's own partition on a gpt disk, and I also noticed a note on the gentoo wiki that recommends using lilo, so I went with lilo for booting both arch and windows. It works great. (I also didn't want to try to deal with more than 4 partitions with the hybrid mbr setup).
This setup works with the apple bootloader, but I wasn't able to set it as my startup disk in os x (I guess because lilo is installed to my linux partition). I didn't want to get stuck booting into os x every time I forget to hold down the option key, so I stuck with my original grub-efi install. That way I can also still boot arch in efi mode without jumping through any extra hoops/bootloaders. I guess refit would probably be fine too, but I didn't see an entry for this particular model in it's source, and it's behaved kind of erratically for me, so I'm sticking with grub for now.
The appleloader patch has been accepted into grub, so it may be possible to just use the bzr version.
I also noticed that after I upgraded to 4GB memory, linux only reports 3702MB, even though the graphics card should only be using 256MB. I'm not sure what's up with that, but maybe it's normal. OS X and Windows both report the correct amount. And memtest86+ reports 3836M if I remember correctly.

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HELP: Failure flashing BIOS using Live Update 5

Hi,
I used Live Update 5 to download the latest BIOS version for my MB. Then when I was running the update, I chose "". (I know it's incorrect and I should have chosen the other one.) After the update, the machine restarted and showed a cursor blinking on the top left on a black screen, and it wouldn't proceed any more. I can enter the BIOS without a problem. I can also boot from CD or USB, but the windows on my machine simply wouldn't boot.
After the problem arose, I have tried flashing the BIOS with the MSI Forum HQ USB Flashing tool on this forum. It tells me that but the same problem remains.
What should I do now?
Thanks for your time and consideration!

After any flash, the battery should be removed for awhile and the CMOS cleared. Reset all your BIOS menu settings again making sure the boot order etc. is correct and the proper mode is selected that your OS was installed under, i.e. IDE or AHCI mode.

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Hi,
What happens when you power up, is it 'dead', or can you get as far as bios.
Is the bios chip socketed ( with ceramic kerb round it)or soldered.
If its socketed, you can swap bios chip easily, or even hot flash it on another Mobo.
Bios chips are available next day delivery from various web sites.
http://www.badflash.com/
http://www.flashbios.org/
On this forum about a month ago, a link to buy a Bios Kit, a kit for each type of bios chip, as far as I could see, a small chip is placed under bios chip, then bios can be flashed. But would only work on socketed chips I think. I am sure I save the details as I would like to buy the kits, but can't find it. A long search of threads sometime, if you find it let me know.
The rescue function CTRL + HOME, is much the same as the Flash Recovery on post page, but if you can't get it to post, then a blank floppy with the bios file renamed to AMIBOOT.ROM the only file on it. Then booting rig with floppy in A:>, while holding the CTRL and HOME keys down, will start a flash recovery program, with which you could update the bios to 3.2 or 3.3
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How to flash bios using flash drive

how can i put this bios update on a flash drive , "Bios Update for Toshiba satellite l745d-s4230"
Someone from the other forums said that i need to update my bios to fix my problem (stuck on windows is starting)
here's the link in my 1st post "windows 7 stuck on starting windows screen" you can review my problem in that link.

Quote from: servo101 on 25-September-05, 23:44:46
i use winflash all the time. and as jaybee said, its pretty safe as long as you turn off everything (except your PC of course )
and if somehow, the BIOS is corrupt, you can just DL a new one, reflash it and still be okay without ever having to reboot.
I beg to differ. When I had flashed my K8N Neo (7030) board to the now recalled 1.8 bios (in DOS), I tried to flash it to 1.9 beta using Winflash, following the instructions here on the forum to the very last point, and for me Winflash did not work. Not only did it fail to flash, it also failed to flash using several different bioses. So even though I was able to reflash without rebooting, it did not help me since no bios file worked.
My bios was corrupt and I had to order a replacement chip.
There is always the possible hardware fault (bad flash chip), but since it flashed successfully in DOS only a few days before, I see no reason to suspect the hardware.
My recommendation is therefore: *always* *always* *ALWAYS* use DOS when flashing.

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I have the above unit (I love it!!) with BIOS version 14CN51WW BIOS running UBUNTU9.04 (did not like the SUSE linux supplied. I hate the loud bleep when you remove the power adapter and also have had a few problems with LINUX hanging with the suspend mode - so I thought I might try to update the BIOS to the latest Version: 14CN67WW
However, how do you do this other than in Windows?
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The only other way I have is a Windows XP routine that loads XP into memory and allows a virtual disk - where I could install the BIOS files - but will this work if I flash from here - don't want to screw up the system board
Older IBM's had an executable file that ran from a DOS session and flashed the BIOS
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You don't need to update the BIOS, you need to turn the camera on.
I believe from looking in the manual that you can do this by pressing the 'O-key', and then selecting the webcam there.

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Quote from: ivangelion on 17-October-06, 10:56:46
post your mobo and system details, see if your mobo has a socket BIOS or is soldered, if is socketed then you can change the bios, also if you have a friend or somebody with the same mobo you can reflash your bios making a hot swap with the working mobo. good luck
Oops,
It is a Neo Platinum (7030) MB in an Antec Sonata Case, 2*512 OCZ memory, Seagate 120Gb SATA HD, ATI 9800Pro.
The BIOS is socketed, but I don't know anyone who might have another MB like mine. (Stupid question: If BIOS doesn't boot in my machine, how do you reflash it in another PC? Wouldn't it be just as dead if moved to another MB?)
Thanks,
Zen.

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Quote from: Blazer on 22-July-05, 22:39:17
thats what it sounds like ! contact msi and get a RMA # to return the board,as they can reflash the bios. good luck
How do I do that? It looks like MSIs site is clinically clean of any way to actually contact them...

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Try reinstall the OS. I hope it works. My opinion is when you update BIOS, The OS detected as a new computer (for some pcs). Try repair The OS with boot from CD.
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Flash BIOS nightmare

I just flashed BIOS using the windows mode in MSI Live update on my MSI k8N neo platinum.
It told me to reboot to let new bios take effect. I said OK - it said boot from CD and never saw windows again - please help me.
I hope I haven't killed my motherboard, its almost brand new.
Did I do something wrong?

When you flash the bios it clears Cmos that is the area which holds your personalised settings such as hard disk boot order memory timings you've manually entered.
Go into bios -
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2) Advanced bios settings - Hard disk boot order. select the HD you boot from and ensure it is top of the list b4 any other devices.
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save & exit bios
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MOVED: What we need - a guide on how to flash bios, setup bios, and raid

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Like How to Flash Bios NVidia 64 & Award Bios
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Flashing BIOS (not using liveupdate)

hi, i wanna flash my BIOS, but my question is after downloading the BIOS update zip and burning that to a cd..
can i use a cd to flash a BIOS?
or can i used a USB thumbdrive to flash BIOS?
i dont have a floppy drive anymore...
i have read that my board K8NGM-V supports booting up in the USB.. is that the same for flashing a BIOS?

if your system is stabile then you no need to flashed it as it may causes instability of your system.. I would preferable used the cd or floppy to flash it. BTW create your own rig in details including PSU and bios revision so others can help you. Gd luck.
P/s: why must you flashed your bios? is it stabile?

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Quote from: Froggy Gremlin on 12-October-12, 04:46:49
*MSI recommend you to update BIOS with ME8 only if you are using Ivy Bridge 22nm CPU.
Sorry to say but it seams illogical. AFAIK it is impossible to flash form SB to IB bios using Ivy Bridge. Am I wrong?
Going further... I can not find any positive reports that users can get working system by changing cpu to Ivy after all those bad flashes. I see many suggestions to try it but I can not see any "success!" info. IMHO MSI flash procedure is just "somehow" unreliable. It is nice that MSI decided to support IB on older motherboards but we see too many bricks on our forum.
My idea (wild guess) to avoid bricking is to flash with only one stick of memory.
PS: IMHO Click Bios II attracts too much too many P67 users (like me)

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All you can do is try a full cmos clear w/ a bare bones set-up. What you should have done when you saw the blinking light was enable multi bios update in bios to recover the bad bios.
Probably the simplest thing to do is bring the board to a computer shop with an SPI programmer. It will probably cost around $50-$75 to get this fixed.
If you have a Sandy bridge CPU, stick with 7672vH5.zip unless there are issues. If you absolutely need to flash your bios, use the forum flash tool and archives.
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