MSI Z77MA-G45 limited Bios settings

Hi everyone,
I recently got a new motherboard for my 3770K, an MSI Z77MA-G45 and updated the Bios to Version 1.9.
I am a bit frustrated with this board because it doesn't provide some essential settings for overclocking:
- Cannot set the Turbo multipliers, it only allows to change the base frequency ones
- It won't let me specify custom Vcore voltages. It only allows me to select between a few offset values (+0.02, +0.04, +0.06)
Are the above limitations normal for the CPU+Board+BiosVersion combination?
I have seen on the web others with exactly the same board or the Z77A-G45, that provide lots of extra settings.
Is there an option in the Bios that would unlock extra settings ?
FYI, "Adjust CPU ratio in OS" is disabled.
Thank you!

Quote from: Froggy Gremlin on 02-April-13, 13:18:47
As mentioned, use the keyboard arrow keys to highlight the setting, then use the keyboard's 'numbers pad' + or - keys to change the value.
Thanks for adding the numlock and making that clearer Froggy Gremlin

Similar Messages

MSI Z77MA-G45 LGA 1155 Intel Motherboard z77 please help me

So i just got my MSI Z77MA-G45 LGA 1155 Intel Motherboard z77 slotted it all together all seemed fine untill it wouldn't recognize my hard drive. I currently dont have a dvd drive at the moment so i put all the files of the win7 and msi drivers on the same 8gb stick. When i search for storage intel and see compatible drivers it sees one in RAID which i install but nothing else seems to happen. Ive been in bios and switched it from ahci raid and ide, that ahci etc one and Raid appear to be the same out come ie no harddrive visable. IDE doesnt even load it gets to starting windows logo then black screen and yes a i checked the harddrive is on the bottom sata1. Is my motherboard just defective or is there anything else to try. Sorry i have no other computer to use other than my laptop hopefully get a dvd drive soon (in the post) and hopefully a ssd to see if its the harddrive but i dont think that will make much difference. Cheers for any advise

So now everything seems to be working fine, but when you are in windows, if you leave the computer at idle it crashes?
For now, go into uefi bios and hit f6 for optimized defaults.
Hit f10 save and exit.
Once you have entered the os, open cpuz and post screen shots of the spd tabs of each memory stick installed and the memory tab. (You can open multiple instances of cpuz and take 1 screen shot.)
*When you do this the bios will default to achi mode remember.

Share memory on MSI Z77MA-G45 an 3570k

Hi all,
I have a MSI Z77MA-G45 mobo and a i5-3570k CPU. I use the integrated graphics.
On the mobo's spec page says that the maximum share memory is 1760MB. I can only set 256MB in the BIOS. Is there something else that I need to change to get more memory available?
On the system I also have installed 2x4GB of Corsair Vengeance memory.

Intel uses DVMT for VGA memory.
You can set a fixed value (up to 256MB) and set the DVMT to maximum if you want.
That should make the system assign up to 1760 MB if needed.
It is dynamic so it only assigns the memory it actually needs.

Works: MSI Z77MA-G45 Motherboard

Just dropping a note to say that the MSI Z77MA-G45 motherboard with UEFI works perfectly under Arch. Initial installation was a little bit painful because I was installing from a USB drive that was not booted in UEFI mode. By following this guide and the installation guide, I managed to install refind, which got me into Arch, then I just repeated the GRUB2 installation steps to complete my install.
Systemd is a little weird and will definitely take some time to get used to, but I really like the new 100% manual installation method, along with the improved Arch bootstrapping and chroot'ing scripts. Very happy to see that this is still the same (but better!) distro that I used 6 years ago.

Using it along an AMD card is quite useless and therefor results maybe wrong. Try the 210 alone in the other slot. Also please list system specs: >>Posting Guide<<

MSI N210-512D2 Vid card doesn't display graphics with MSI z77ma-g45 motherboard

New Motherboard: MSI z77ma-g45
New Card: N210-512D2
Does not display graphics.
I stick a HIS Radeon HD 5450 in the MB and its fine. I stick the N210-512D2 in a old dell and it's fine.
Whats making the N210-512D2 Card incompatable with z77ma-g45 motherboard?

Using it along an AMD card is quite useless and therefor results maybe wrong. Try the 210 alone in the other slot. Also please list system specs: >>Posting Guide<<

MSI Z77ma-g45 no powerup

my z77ma-g45 was working fine till i reseated the heatsink now it does not seem to want to power up. I have done a full teardown and rebuild, swapped ram(8G|CRUCIAL BLS8G3D1609ES2LX0) , checked the cpu (I5 3570) in another mobo (another z77ma-g45). swapped psu. removed all addin cards and cables. no beeps no lights.... no signs of damage or burns marks on the mobo, no bent pins (when swapped heat sinks nothing else was removed). any ideas?
edit~~~~~~~
so after working on this for two days i post here, and while waiting i decide to try one more thing, i move the cpu fan to sysfan1, and the disconnected sysfan1 to the cpu header, boom powers up.... turn it back off swap them, works again....
I choose to believe the people in this forum are wizards, and from afar fixed what ever was stopping the power on... thank you

So now everything seems to be working fine, but when you are in windows, if you leave the computer at idle it crashes?
For now, go into uefi bios and hit f6 for optimized defaults.
Hit f10 save and exit.
Once you have entered the os, open cpuz and post screen shots of the spd tabs of each memory stick installed and the memory tab. (You can open multiple instances of cpuz and take 1 screen shot.)
*When you do this the bios will default to achi mode remember.

MSI 990FXA-GD80 V2 BIOS Settings

I recently just put together my first new system. It consists of the MSI 990FXA-GD80 V2 board. Lots of reading to find that most of the "other" board owners of different brands, that start wiyh A, and G seem to rant and rave about how good their boards are, and how horrible MSI boards are. Through all of my reading though, there seems to be a whole lot more complaints about how this doesn't work, can't get it to do this, etc,etc, and not nearly as many as those with MSI boards. Thus, why I purchased it, and absolutely love it! I have an AMD 980 BE, Mushkin 1600 Ridgeback 1.5v @ 7-7-7-18-24, Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240 gig SSD, Coolermaster V8 cooler,all in a Coolermaster 922 HAF case. Currently clocked at 4.1gigs, 24hr Prime stable. My question is if anyone knows, or has info on all the settings on voltages in this BIOS so that I can get a better understanding of what they all are and do,and where they should be set. I don't think I did to bad on my very first overclock, but Iwant more, for the bragging rights, you know. Any help would be appreciated.

Quote from: stw1911 on 04-January-13, 08:40:53
Funny you say overclock.net I stumbled upon that site quite some time ago. Now I'm sticking my hands in places that they should not be in, just to find a few more pennies to put into my rig. I knew nothing about computers before I saw that site, and now I am on it almost every day just reading and learning. My first and only computer before this one that I have just built was an old Gateway that I literally resurected from the junk yard with the help of a friend, put a new hard drive and OS in, and had my very first computer. It was an Intel Pentium 1.5 ghz POS. As I said before, I still need a good graphics card to temporarily complete my build, and some more knowledge to tweak it out, then I will start with the bling. Overclock.net got me good!! I don't think I did too bad on my first ever overclock of 4.1, using just multi and cpu and cpu/nb voltages, but there are a lot more than just those in the bios, like SB volt, CPU PLL volt, NB volt,HT Link volt, DDR Ref volt CPU DDR PHY volt, NB PCI-E volt, and DDR VTT volt. I am trying to get an understanding of what these do, and where a good setting for these is so I can tweak the sh** out of this thing without burnung up the board and processor. This is why I came to this forum to ask these questions, because it is an MSI owners forum. This is an awesome board, and I want to make it pi** all over the A and G boards with the same type of equiptment. I truly think it can, just need a little more knowledge to do it.
Since you're a beginner I think you should stick to the defaults with the voltages - you can probably bump up the multiplier safely a little bit without needing to touch the voltages. Unless you plan on doing water cooling or anything like that you really don't need to touch the voltages. Auto works fine. I had my Phenom X4 965 BE OC'd to 3.8Gz just by bumping up the multiplier and it was very stable. You don't want to fry your MB by setting the wrong voltages and its not something you really need to do as the gains aren't really there. (again unless you're doing active phase cooling or something hardcore like that) but thats really reserved for the true geeks like me. Not to mention I really doubt you'll even need to over clock at all unless you reallllllllly want to...
As for graphics cards, I have and LOVE my Evga GTX680... I have the 2GB but theres a 4gb model out now which can handle higher texture fill rates and resolutions... but its expensive $550 or so.... good luck!

MSI Z87-G45 flashed bios 19 now Intel Management Engine doesnt work

I used the forum tool to flash the latest bios 1,19 for my Z87-g45 and after booting back into windows and reinstalling intel ME I have a yellow exclamation mark over the Intel ME Interface in device manager.
It says the device cant start and STATUS_DEVICE_POWER_FAILURE
I tried installing the MS hotfix that comes with the latest Intel ME software on the MSI website but it doesnt install and says it isn't suitable for my computer when I run it. I tried the 64bit first then the 32bit.

I fixed this by installing the older 1.18 using the built in mflash instead of the forum tool.
I don't know if it was the 1.19 version or the forum tool that stopped intel management engine working but selecting bios and intel me flash from the built in mflash worked.
I did worry when my computer shut down and restarted at 49% complete but upon starting again it showed a blank screen with flashing percentage for intel me in the middle starting around 50%.

MSI 770-G45 - Looses CMOS Settings when PSU is unplugged

Hi,my friend bouth 770-G45 from a local dealer store,and he has a problem with it.
The problems acts like this:
Every time when the power cable is unpluged from the PSU,the date/hour resets to the default,i tryed to resolve it with an bios update,but it`s unsuccessfull to resolv the problem.
Someone can sugest something else?
PS. I tried to replace the MB BIOS battery,still no positive result.

Hy,thanks for the quick reply...
So,the jumper is set in the correct position,i`m sure;
The new battery is good,tested on my PC;
There are no unwanted stands near the MB.
I will take a better look today,when i will go to study it very closely,every details...
The MB wassen`t a cheap one,he bouth it about one year ago,it was mounted by the shop,because he bouth a new PC,from them,a custom made one.So i will go and see.Thanks again for the quick reply.

MSI GT70 0ND-219US Bios settings for fastest cpu, and maybe gpu performance?

What is the best BIOS's settings (I have the unlocked BIOS)
For overclock cpu on startup and GPU

Honestly? Stock. There's little to no performance gain overall for the CPU.
You can't change the GPU performance from the BIOS.
If you're asking these types of questions, you're probably better off not changing anything without doing a TON of research first. There's plenty of website out there that detail what you can do, and why, and how it really isn't very effective (especially in the mobile space) just because you can't increase it as much as you can on the desktop space (in some cases).
Unless you have upgraded the CPU from the 3610 that was originally installed in your laptop, overclocking is really pointless.

MSI P43 Neo unsupported bios settings

Hello all
I buy this mobo with one Intel E7300 processor. Then I try to run with Vmware and VirtualPC one operating system x64 but i get the message: "Your CPU not suport x64 operating system" and I must enable from Bios virtualization tehnology and host 64 but this mobo have not this settings.
Also I have the last bios update. It is possible to run x64 operating system with these two components?
Tks

The processor support 64bit, however, it does not support Virtualization. Technology.
Quote
Then I try to run with Vmware and VirtualPC one operating system x64 but i get the message: "Your CPU not suport x64 operating system"
Are you running VMWare/VirtualPC out of a 32bit operating system? If yes, that explains the error message.
Please try to install a 64 bit operating the regular way, not virtualize it.

MSI Z87-G45 Updated bios to 1.3 with M-Flash without ME

So is this a problem ? should ME be updated as well ?
I went from the first bios to this one but only saw later on that is was suppose to be flashed with ME.
So should i re flash the bios ? if anyone can tell me that would be much appreciated.

Quote from: misenko on 08-September-13, 17:44:25
Thanks. Nevertheless, yesterday I was upgrading the bios to version 1.4 and bricked the board. BSOD during erasing flash and that's it. PC never boot again. Now sending to RMA. So be careful with flashing! This board does not have dual bios unfortunately :(
I had to RMA a brand new board the first month I had it because out of the box I could not update the board. When I called MSI support they a) had zero RMA stock available and b) were going to try to give me refurb until I threw a fit. I had purchased some upgrades and it was about two weeks before the build so I was unable to return to the seller for an exchange and directed to MSI.
After a couple weeks MSI ended up sending me a new retail board that had been "personally QC'd" by the tech I had dealt with on the phone. I was assured the board could now by flashed and sure enough this was the case. The upper heatsinks were physically "damaged" however, not functionally but aesthetically. They must have touched plastic to them while they were nice and warm because there's a gob of fused plastic/disfigured heatsink now.
I also now hang trying to update. So, I'm pretty much done with board, done with MSI.

MSI Z77MA-G45 and front audio header

nice board, nice oc, but the front audio header does not seem to work(rear jacks are fine)
is there a bios setting i am missing?

Quote from: flobelix on 26-September-13, 01:58:46
Do the front USB headers work?
Also try the board out of case and put it on a non-conductive surface. Retry with basic components and see if font audio works if you connect it.

MOVED: MSI Z77MA-G45 and front audio header

This topic has been moved to Intel Core-iX boards.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=172950.0

Quote from: flobelix on 26-September-13, 01:58:46
Do the front USB headers work?
Also try the board out of case and put it on a non-conductive surface. Retry with basic components and see if font audio works if you connect it.

MSI Z77MA-G45 Undervolting

Hello there! I just OC'd my 3570k to 4.00ghz with core voltage set to AUTO. I also using Xigmatek Gaia SD1283. Is there a option to undervolt the cpu? When i change the core voltage its only gives my the options between AUTO, +0.0000v, +0.0020v etc. I want to undervolt so my cpu temp get lower. I am about 38-46o calcius. Thanks in advance.

Is the Vdroop option available on the G45?
(I don't think it is)
If it is however, just lower the vdroop % and the cpuv under load will be lower.

MSI Z77MA-G45 limited Bios settings

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for