MSI CX61 BIOS/brightness problem

My CX61-0NF laptop came with bios version E16GBIMS.406 and on the MSI site I saw that the latest version was E16GBIMS.902, so I went ahead and flashed the bios with the latest version. Everything was working fine before the update so I know it was pretty stupid of me to update even if I didn't have any problems. After the update, I thought everything was working good but turns out the brightness adjustment(FN+up/down) only works when inside the BIOS environment and stops working when the OS(windows 8) starts loading, adjusting via windows settings also doesn't work. I've already done a clean install on a clean hard drive so I know its not a driver/software problem. I even tried an Ubuntu Live CD I had but still no go.
I managed to find an older BIOS version(older that the one it had originally), E16GBIMS.400, flashing to that version restored the the brightness adjustment but it killed the nVidia GT 645M gpu(not detected by driver, gpu-z reports core/mem as 0mhz).
So now I'm back to the 902 with no brightness adjustment.
Anyone ever encountered something like this?
I've been trying to find where I can download my original bios version but hours with google got me nowhere.

Quote from: dabboxx on 28-August-13, 23:33:51
My CX61-0NF laptop came with bios version E16GBIMS.406 and on the MSI site I saw that the latest version was E16GBIMS.902, so I went ahead and flashed the bios with the latest version. Everything was working fine before the update so I know it was pretty stupid of me to update even if I didn't have any problems. After the update, I thought everything was working good but turns out the brightness adjustment(FN+up/down) only works when inside the BIOS environment and stops working when the OS(windows 8) starts loading, adjusting via windows settings also doesn't work. I've already done a clean install on a clean hard drive so I know its not a driver/software problem. I even tried an Ubuntu Live CD I had but still no go.
I managed to find an older BIOS version(older that the one it had originally), E16GBIMS.400, flashing to that version restored the the brightness adjustment but it killed the nVidia GT 645M gpu(not detected by driver, gpu-z reports core/mem as 0mhz).
So now I'm back to the 902 with no brightness adjustment.
Anyone ever encountered something like this?
I've been trying to find where I can download my original bios version but hours with google got me nowhere.
could you tell me how you boot flash memory in uefi mode and flash the new bios?
i search it whole of google and find nothing
please help meeeeee

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