NF980-G65 BIOS Update Nightmare!!

There is ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE for stupidity like this!!
Okay, I'm pretty sure someone or several people at MSI have their head up ass!
I have an AMD 1090T x6 going into a brand new board. The factory shipped bios is v1.2 which doesn't identify the CPU correctly. Trying to update to 1.4 and it cannot be done. I've tried the HP Utility on this board, the MSI Utility on the board as well as several other bios boot diskettes, CDs, and USB Boot tools and it just hangs.
For gosh sakes, send the boards out with 1.4.
I am on a deadline and instead of installing an operating system tonight, I spent the last 5 hour F#%@ing around trying to flash a bios so I can proceed with my install.
I am using the default dumbed down bios settings, I have one stick of ram in the system, and nothing helps or works! This is just plain retarded!!
The last time I went thru this a couple weeks ago, I ended up having to put an AMD 965 x4 into the board to flash from 1.2 to 1.4, then put in the x6 to carry on.
If ALL these companies were held accountable for the time people have to waste on their stupidity and mediocrity, this kind of crap wouldn't happen.
This kind of stupidity costs me money everyday!! Only I have to suck it up and eat the loss everytime this kind of braindead crap is encountered.
A solution would be nice but I bet I won't get one.

Quote from: Mike on 31-January-11, 00:14:01
How can a board be sent out with 1.4 if it was manufactured when only 1.2 was available. You can't blame MSI for a retailer sending you older stock. Contact the retailer and have them flash it or use a supported CPU. If you don't have another MSI board or notebook with Windows installed(you'll need to download the bios to the other computer) where you can use the forum's utility to prepare a USB stick, >>MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<< , then use one of the other methods in the sticky for flashing the bios under If you are unable to use the MSI HQ USB BIOS Flashing Tool, https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=119375.0 .
We understand your frustration, but please calm down and let's try to help.
Thanks mike for posting this link ... once I get my board fixed and resent I will try this flasher. Thanks again for your help!

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MOVED: NF980-G65 BIOS Update Nightmare!!

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https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=145326.0

Quote from: Mike on 31-January-11, 00:14:01
How can a board be sent out with 1.4 if it was manufactured when only 1.2 was available. You can't blame MSI for a retailer sending you older stock. Contact the retailer and have them flash it or use a supported CPU. If you don't have another MSI board or notebook with Windows installed(you'll need to download the bios to the other computer) where you can use the forum's utility to prepare a USB stick, >>MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<< , then use one of the other methods in the sticky for flashing the bios under If you are unable to use the MSI HQ USB BIOS Flashing Tool, https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=119375.0 .
We understand your frustration, but please calm down and let's try to help.
Thanks mike for posting this link ... once I get my board fixed and resent I will try this flasher. Thanks again for your help!

NF980-G65 bios update

hey guys i have a system that need a bios update and i can't get the system to boot usb so i setup a floppy boot disk and that all works... so i tryed the bios update with the flash protection on jest do see it as a dry run with little or no risk and well i can conferm my system is more unstable then boat... that system needs the bios update but i need it stable to do the update so i need some help getting it stable. the system is listed in this thead (top post) https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=140401.0.
i think it must be the ram being that it is intel tested and not AMD supported.

i got a call into ocz about the ram.

NF980-G65 Bios update. Do you need a supported cpu to do this

I read a post on the newegg site that this bios can be ugraded to an x6 compatabile version without a supported cpu? Can anyone clarify this? Is it true and if so what is the process?
Thanks

Quote from: blottom on 17-September-10, 19:47:10
I read a post on the newegg site that this bios can be ugraded to an x6 compatabile version without a supported cpu? Can anyone clarify this? Is it true and if so what is the process?
Thanks
As has been said, only if it boots with the X6.
What BIOS is on yours? Number on BIOS chip, last 3 digits BIOS version. Example: 120 would be v1.2

Need help flashing nf980 g65 bios

I just put together the NF980-G65 with a 6 core AMD processor. From what I understand it doesn't support the 6 cores unless I flash it to the latest BIOS update. It won't let me install Windows 7 or XP so I'm trying to use mflash. I downloaded the zip and extracted it onto a usb drive that's formatted with fat32. Then in the BIOS when I try to do the update it can't find the file. It only shows partition 0, previous folder, or media folder. For some reason it won't find the update. I have tried everything I can think of, also using a different usb drive. Please help.

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It won't let me install Windows 7 or XP
What do you mean by that?
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so I'm trying to use mflash
Please avoid using Mflash for now... and lets sort out the first issue first, by answering the first question.
Oh and please read the >>Posting Guide<<

T60 Bios Update Nightmare

Hi there, can anyone help me, or point me to some advice that is similar to this.
I used the thinkvantage button.
I was bored and there inforn of me it said, check for BIOS updates, so I thought why not, updated bios must surely be better than the ones I already had.
They took about 5 minutes to download.
then it said, the system must restart in order for the bios to work, the system shut down, and now will not start up again.
NOTHING. When I press the poweer button, a few lights come on, but not the Hard drive light.
I've just killed the laptop.
Is there anyone how can help me to reanimate it...I've only had it three days.
It's a T60 1952 A32
Thanks.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Well I guess my problem is sorted, aparently it was a faulty Mother Board, which will be replaced because the warranty is still valid.
I can't help thinking though that the problem of ThinkVantage computer updates causing a complete nightmare is quite a serious one.
On a positive note, the support provided by IBM is great. Within minutes of calling, I was talking to someone, who gave me a fe ideas to try, then when they failed, arranged for a engineer to come out.
ThinkVantage problems, Thumbs down
IBM Thinkpad Support, Thumbs up.

890GXM-G65 BIOS update failure

I just assembled a PC with the 890GXM-G65 motherboard, 4 GB Kingston DDR3-1333 memory (2x KVR1333D3N9/2G), Athlon II X2 245 processor, Nvidia 8500GT video card. BIOS revision was 1.6. Although I intended to do a clean Windows 7 x64 install later, initially and with only minor adjustments I was able to successfully boot from my HDD transplanted from my old PC with Windows 7 x86.
I decided to update to BIOS 1.7 because I built this system in an emergency and on a tight budget, hence the Athlon II X2 and the reused old video card and HDD, but I intend to upgrade to a Phenom II X6 and a better card soon, and I remembered having seen the information on MSI's Web site, on the processor compatibility list, that revision 1.7 was required to support hexa-core processors. Later I found that the information on that page had been corrected to a mere version 1.2, but by then it was too late.
I downloaded the ZIP file with the BIOS 1.7 update (7642v17.zip) from MSI's Web site and extracted it. I tried to run the executable (AFUD4310.EXE) from within a Windows 7 command prompt, but I saw a message that the program could not run in that OS. I tried to perform LiveUpdate from MSI's site, but apparently it wasn't compatible either (Windows 7 and IE 8), because nothing happened and it kept returning to the same screen, even though I had enabled all ActiveX options for MSI's site. Then I saved the BIOS binary (A7642AMS.170) to a FAT-formatted USB stick and tried M-Flash from BIOS.
The BIOS recognized the file but said there was a "ROM dismatch" (sic). I canceled it, rebooted, re-downloaded the file, calculated the MD5 hash for the BIOS binary both on my HDD and on the USB stick and they matched, which rules out any problem with the file copy process or the USB stick hardware. I repeated the M-Flash process and since I had double-checked that the ROM file was correct, I saved my old BIOS to the same USB stick and let the flashing proceed.
The BIOS flash process went normally through the end ("Erasing ROM," "Writing ROM," etc.), with the message that the PC would reboot after 5 seconds. Which, of course, it didn't. Other than the blue LEDs and the processor fan spinning, nothing happens. Not even the GPU fan spins, and the same video card still works perfectly in my old PC, which of course I had to re-assemble - I'm writing from it now and using the same video card. I tried everything, in desperation including resetting the BIOS jumpers and removing the battery, even though I knew that's for misconfigured BIOS parameters, not for a corrupted BIOS.
Now, you don't have to tell me that a BIOS upgrade is risky. I know it, and only did it because I thought I had a good reason - to make my new PC ready for the upgrade I intend to do soon. But first, I wouldn't have done it without the incorrect information that was on MSI's Web site. Second, one expects a BIOS update to go without problems if you have the correct binary ROM file from the motherboard's manufacturer and there are no power outages or other problems that interrupt the process. Both these requisites were met. Yet now my brand-new mobo (which I stressed my limited budget to get exactly because of the X6 support and new 890GX chipset) appears to be dead.
Do I have just an expensive paperweight and a considerable loss in my bank account, or is there still hope? Can anything still be done to save my motherboard? Thanks a lot for any possible help.

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so there are all lies or what ?
No, that is called marketing. In most cases, there are no problems with M-Flash whatsoever. However, in too many other instances there have been problems with M-Flash, that is why we warn against using it, to be on the safe side. You can either ignore these warnings and take your chances (probably 95% success rate) or take them seriously and update the BIOS the DOS-Way and increase the success rate to 99.9999%. It is up to you. In case the only reason you posted your remark is to start the sort of discussion we already had hundred times in this forum, please either start your own topic and state your actual problem or just don't reply to my reply. This is a user-to-user forum, not an MSI Technical Support or an official MSI Products complaint stations. If you think that there is serious lying involved here and if have justified complaints, please contact MSI directly: >>How to contact MSI.<< Thank You.

Nf980-g65 bios 1.4

i got the bios updated but now i am woundering what the update did quoting from the update site "Support AGESA code." what is AGESA code and what has it to do with my motherboard bios/system function?
thanks to anyone who try's to answer the qustion p.s. live update 4 is one sweet bios update tool.

Quote from: Mark on 22-September-10, 00:52:32
AGESA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGESA
that's explains a lot of what i was seeing... i had though that the 6 core was not getting fully enabled till the windows driver took over witch explan's the install time and boot time... witch over all was not a issue but cool to know everything should work faster for boot even if it don't really cut the boot time down a ton.

890GXM-G65 Bios Update Render Unlocked Phenom Locked

I have an "unlocked Phenom II X2 560", it was unlocked (Phenom II X4 B60) and running well for 3 month, but today after I update the bios to version 1.D, I missed my unlocked cores.
Why this is happening?
What I have to do to recover my unlocked cores?
Thanks

I set the Unlocked feature of the BIOS with no result, I tried MSI utility "BIOS Code Unlocking Technology", I have enabled the unlocked CPU Core, but I only see 2 cores.
Thanks.

MSI NF980-G65 Bios

i have bios 7612 version 1.1. right now i know version 1.2 is released should i update the bios??
Computer Specs
AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4ghz
8GB ddr3 1600 running at 1333
Windows 7 64 bit
sli xfx gts 250 core edition
im a newbie when it comes to bios so i just want to get some advice from people that know what they are doing.
Thanks

If you have no problems leave BIOS alone,
read those topics:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=129173.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=103441.0

NF980-G65 bios 7612v11

I'm building a new system with this board, and while getting the W7 drivers, I noticed there is a newer bios. I have 1.0. I have only been running memtest so far getting it stable with 4Gb of 1333 memory OCZ3P1333LVAM4GK. The ram is listed as 1333 7-7-7-20 1.65v but bios default puts it as 1066 at 1.5v. At 1333 7-7-7-20 I got it to do 2 passes at 1.63v without errors, and it has gone 3 passes at 1.64v, but it gets errors at 1.62v or 1.65v. waiting for a reply from OCZ about this narrow range. Also, voltage above 1.60v is yellow.
The first 2 changes listed for the new bios are a bit cryptic.
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- Update AGESA code.
- Support L2 function.
- Support AMD unlock CPU.
Google on AGESA says it has to do with detecting and setting up the cpu?
It is listing 512K L2 cache for this Phenom II X4 945 in Memtest. Didn't notice what bios says, so guessing L2 is working.

OCZ claims that the only put 1066 in the spd because some boards won't do a first boot with higher speed.... I'm not real happy with this memory. They are suposed to be configured special for AMD setups yet they require a bit higher voltage then standard and don't work at the listed voltage. I got then to pass 2 on memtest at 1.63v before I stopped it and tried 1.64v. Went 5 passes. But at the rated 1.65v, they error at test #5 on the first pass. That is too small a margin for my taste. I got them from Amazon.com. May look into sending them back and getting something else. Soooo close to getting this running. I may go ahead and install windows over the weekend before pulling the ram.
chef jeff, I find Neweggs advanced search thing doesn't work too well, Things that should be listed arn't because they leave some data out. you found more then I did at speed and voltage for that brand. Maybe because I reduced the search to CL 7. I only came up with:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231276
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144264
Would be a nice board if I get it stable. I went with it over the Asus because the IG is fully connected allowing me to hold on buying a video card until the 300's come out. I also wasn't happy with Asus RMA/techsupport when I had to deal with them. So glad to see the MSI board come out. This is replacing a 745-Ultra system.
Decided to send the OCZ stuff back. Looked at the G.Skill, but I noticed it is t2, not t1. From a little digging, sometimes you have to go to t2 to get 4 sticks working. if it needs t2 to work with 2, then it's already pushing limits at just 4GB

New NF980-G65 bios

http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=bios&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1885
Hoping some bugs I suggested to MSI were included in the fix.
Edit:
Ok flashed in W7 and cleared to bios defaults - no post
power off
power on - no post
power off -> psu off -> clear cmos
psu on -> power on -> post -> bios checksum error press F1 blah blah -> set bios defaults -> save -> reboot
no post -> power off
power on -> post -> disable onboard items -> save reboot
no post -> power off
power on -> post -> set overclock values -> save -> reboot
no post -> power off
power on -> post boot to W7 -> post on MSI forum
still broke.
only looks like they added 4-5 new cpu's AGESA code, I dont use M-FLash so can't comment.

Please read again. I did not set ANY overclocking values till the very end. Everything else was stock speeds/volts.
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Please avoid flashing from within Windows in the future. It is very dangerous! >>Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<< instead.
I have been using AMI's windows flashers for years with no problems. I flashed back to 1.1 and then again to 1.2.
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Ok flashed in W7 and cleared to bios defaults - no post
power off
power on - no post
power off -> psu off -> clear cmos
psu on -> power on -> post -> bios checksum error press F1 blah blah (could have been CMOS error) -> set bios defaults -> save -> reboot
no post -> power off
power on -> post -> disable onboard items -> save reboot
no post -> power off
power on -> post -> set overclock values -> save -> reboot
no post -> power off
power on -> post boot to W7 -> post on MSI forum
It's still broke. I sent MSI an email a while ago that a AM3 dual core will post each and every reboot overclocked or not. This 955BE only posts on power-on (overclocked or not). I do not know why one works but the other doesn't. The 955 words great in an old 790FX board that I keep for testing purposes. I have a feeling (which i communicated to MSI) that the initial VID for the higher clocked AM3 cpus is not set high enough in the early routines of the bios on a warm boot. On a cold-boot the value is obviously correct as it boots each and every time.

NF980-G65 bios

will msi ever get off there can and support the am3, ?? i have the new x6 1090t that i paid over $300 for and i would love to use it, any help would be greatly appriciated,

Again, contact MSI. There is a beta bios that you can use to support the CPU. https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=136781.msg1033902#msg1033902
Contact MSI, else ask for MasterX to send you one via your email link. MasterX will be able to see the email link and use it.

Hybrid sli msi nf980-g65 how to?

evening all
here's the relevant specs
msi nf980-g65
bios ami v1.1
950w COOLMAX CUG-950B 950W ATX12V V.2.2 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Modular Active PFC Power Supply
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 140W Quad-Core Processor
8 gigs ram 2gb x 4 modules [OCZ Gold 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model OCZ3G1600LV4GK]
2 x EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
o/s windows xp x64 pro sp3 updated to oct 2009
all the basics work fine. all drivers are most recent within hours of this post.
the ram is underclocked. no o/c on anything
nvidia control panel has all the bells and whistles except for...hybrid sli options
the chipset is capable, and the vid cards are compatable.
any help avail to get this running? ill take a link if u dun feel like spoon feeding
tyia

Quote from: Henry on 18-October-09, 13:16:55
What you are asking does not make any sense regarding Hybrid SLI. For Hybrid SLI you need a single GeForce 8400 or 8500 graphic card to boost 3D graphics performance with on board graphic card.
Are you actually wanting to do normal SLI with the two 9800GTX+ cards?
Edit: What's wrong with the instructions in your manual? If the paper manual you have is not adequate try the PDF one from >> here <<, maybe it shows more than the paper one you got with the MB. See SLI instructions starting at page 2-22.
any1 else want to take a shot at this who understands the difference between hybrid and geforce boost and is also aware that hybrid is not limited to 1 gpu + mGpu but can be used in dula and tri-sli configurations?

New NF980-G65 with an AMD X6 1090T and the BIOS Update Utility Crashes?

Last week I received my new NF980-G65 board and with it an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (Thuban 3.2GHz Socket AM3). After installing the board and starting it up for the first time I noticed that it reports BIOS version 1.1 and CPU unknown. Next I downloaded the BIOS update to version 1.3 from msi, made a boot USB stick and powered up again. System will not boot from USB. I tried now over 20 different sticks from 256MB to 64GB and none of them worked!
Went back to my old system and ripped its floppy drive out to install it in the new computer. Had to go to RadioShack since I have not touched a floppy in over 10 years, but they had some on clearance. Made me a boot disk, put the new BIOS and install utility on it, booted the system with the floppy, started the BIOS update utility and watched it crash. When I start it by itself it gives me three screens of options and commands, but as soon as I try to use one of the commands or update the BIOS it keeps crashing.
What do I have to do to get the BIOS on the NF980-G65 updated so it will run with my AMD X6 1090T processor?
Thank you in advance for ANY help...
Tyler

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I am sorry, but I need to work with this thing since I make a living writing code, I do not play with it! This thing and the support I am getting for it are not worth my time or money!
What thing are you talking about? You are experiencing the a certain symptom for which you do not know the cause. For some strange reason and without any in-depth tests you seem to assume that the board must be the problem (ignoring all other components (for example your factory overclocked memory modules).
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the support I am getting for it are not worth my time or money!
What support have you tried to get that actually has to do anything with money? Please note that this is not MSI Technical Support but a User-to-User forum, run by users (just like you) that do not get paid for donating their private time to try to help others. Whatever your level of frustration is in regards to the money spent for your components, please do not use it to insult anyone here in this forum.
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The result remains the same, the update utility keeps crashing...
Are still using the same floppy drive with the same floppy disk in it?
What is your current BIOS-Version?
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BIOS update utility
What version? What is the exact file name of that utility?
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ade me a boot disk
How/Based on what DOS Version?

NF980-G65 BIOS Update Nightmare!!

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