Problems updating BIOS on P965-platinum

Well, using LiveUpdate to find the newest BIOS seems like the most reasonable course of action for a guy who does not posess a floppy-drive... So when I use it, I want it to work!...
Now, it finds the newest BIOS, downloads it as well as the flash tool, and then I press the button to start flashing... Then it only gives me an "error loading driver... Press any key" message... WTH??
Does anybody here have any ideas how I flash the BIOS, I'm sure as hell not using a floppy
Best Regards

yes, I never did it myself but I have read about it.
You need a tool like this here:
http://217.110.237.67/Notnagel/USB/Tool%20zum%20USB-Stick%20formatieren.exe
with it you can format your USB stick as a DOS start up disk
Then copy the BIOS file and a flash programm onto the stick, set your current BIOS to boot from USB and you're set.
I've heard people talking about problems using LiveUpdate (but then others used it with no problems).
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=14909.0

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So I updated my system with new motherboard and CPU.
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I was short of money that's why I only bought certain new parts.
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> hmm.... did you save the BIOS settings before?
Nope, I'm not able to save the BIOS Settings at all. No matter what the settings are (Defaults, modified,...), After saving the settings, the computer just won't boot. I need to clear CMOS in order to get back into BIOS after saving the settings.
I think this might be caused by the fact that it saves the FSB to 266MHz (1066MHz) (during boot it displays the message that "266mhz system bus processor is not supported <....> System will use reduced 133MHz bus instead.) So after saving the settings (and FSB to 266MHz), the system is unable to boot. I cannot change the value to 133MHz from BIOS (this is what I tried, so that I would be able to test if the FSB setting is the one that makes it impossible to boot after saving BIOS settings), it can be only between 200-500MHz.
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Quote from: Spray on 09-May-06, 09:43:17
I don't have this board at hand. So...uh I haven't tried those bios, but many guys on the forum have the experience in using 1.C or beta 1.Cx. It seems that there is not any obvious bug. However, in my opinion, the newest bios is not always the best one for your board. If not necessary, don't update bios. The stability is the most important.
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This is my first post, so helo to everybody.
I bought a P965 Platinum board a week ago. Yesterday I decided to update to v1.1 bios which I downloaded from the Global Site (latest version). Since then I have a very weird problem. My keyboard does not work unless it goes into Windows. I tried 2 different PS2 and another 2 USB keyboards but the problem is the same. Before then everything was OK (e.g. I entered numerous times into the bios in order to manage to install the XP SP2 onto a raid0 configuration!). Any suggestions (except from just wait for a new bios release)?
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Quote from: burianek on 12-May-07, 02:52:47
I had the exact same problem with my keyboards / P965 Platinum, although mine started when I used partition magic to resize my windows partition.
No keyboards (usb or ps/2, didn't matter) would activate until halfway through the windows load screen, making it impossible to change boot order, get into bios, etc.
Was seriously a very scary problem.
Did exactly as BOSSKILLER suggested. Updated bios to latest version 1.4 within windows using live update. Turned off machine. Unplugged power cord. Cleared CMOS. Booted, (keyboard worked! :D) got into bios, loaded defaults. Rebooted into bios, reset all of my settings and presto! Perfect again.
Thank you guys so much. This helped immensely. I was not looking forward to taking apart my new machine to send in the motherboard for service at all.
"Did exactly as BOSSKILLER suggested. Updated bios to latest version 1.4 within windows using live update. Turned off machine. Unplugged power cord. Cleared CMOS. Booted, (keyboard worked! :D) got into bios, loaded defaults. Rebooted into bios, reset all of my settings and presto! Perfect again."
dunno where did you saw that, but i never suggest using LiveUpdate to update BIOS.
"Thank you guys so much. This helped immensely. I was not looking forward to taking apart my new machine to send in the motherboard for service at all."
you are welcome.

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Thanks for the reply
First of all i will describe my mashine :
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Have you tried using another cable to rule out the possibility that your cable is bad?
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Quote from: HenryW on 25-April-07, 10:09:23
Have you tried the updated Realtek drivers from MSI (5.664.0205.2007)? Dated 2007-04-20
HERE
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Quote from: Maesus on 16-October-07, 22:35:53
If enabling EIST would cause OC unstable, that means this OC setting is unstable after all. What EIST does is to reduce the multiplier back to 6x during idle, it also set the CPU Core Voltage LOWER.
I don't have this P965 Platinum board to test out, the temperature thing definitely can be fixed, by next BIOS release hopefully. Del UK, did E6600 temp. report correctly?
Hi Maesus,
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