P67A-GD65 Primary BIOS Failure

Hello there.
I was playing with memory timings, and after few harmless boot hang ups I'm here...
Thanks to blue flashing LED I know my primary BIOS has failed, however, I cant repair it using secondary BIOS ( https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=145084.0;attach=7527 ). EFI just hangs up when I try to save any settings.
I did clear CMOS already - no effect.
Any help much appreciated.

Quote from: Henry on 13-February-11, 08:42:22
>> Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher <<
After flashing (to 1.7) and reseting cmos problem is still there ;/

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Your best bet depending on where you are and how much shipping would be is MSI. If you could, let me know how much if anything they charge for this.
>>How to contact MSI.<<
Next, would be a computer shop with the nessesary equip, that is of course unless you have a friend with an IB cpu.
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