Will MSI Z87 MPOWER Motherboard boot into Bios with Devils Canyon?

Hey guys !
I decided to take the plunge and update to a Devils Canyon i5 4690k and purchased a MSI Z87 MPOWER motherboard which was on special. I know I need to update the bios for this cpu.
I forgot to check something crucial !
Will i be able to boot into UEFI Bios and update the Bios with this CPU ???? I have only used ASUS Mobo's and they have the bios flashback feature. I'm worried i'll have this great mobo and cpu and not be able to update !!! I don't have a standard haswell cpu to use just to update the bios to support Devils Canyon.
Could someone confirm if it will boot allowing me to update via the MSI Bios flash method.
I still have time to cancel the order if need be.
Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not quite automatically. It will recognise the CPU but may not properly work or boot. You can try booting into Windows/other OS, but you might need to update BIOS.
Once you have the updated BIOS prepared on the USB stick, you just boot from the USB stick and it will give you some instructions etc to follow, and that's all about updating.
As last resort if it won't let you do it, you can take motherboard to some PC repair center where they have SPI programming tool and they'll update BIOS even without the CPU inside

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So I just bought MSI Z87 MPOWER motherboard and Intel 4770k to replace my current MSI P55-GD80 and Intel i7 860. I'm having a problem that when i tried to power it on, it shuts off immediately. Double checked everything and all is good but got the same error. I tried to re-assemble/re-seat everything (removed, CPU, GPU, RAM, etc) but to no avail.
Then tried to use my previous motherboard and CPU and it works fine (note that i use different HDD/OS for these 2 motherboards). I even tried to connect only my Z87 MPOWER, CPU, RAM and 24 and 8 pin but still doesn't work. I also tried only the MPOWER and the 24/8 pins but still it turns on for a moment then shuts it off.
Any idea what more should i do other than RMA the board? Also tried the 2nd BIOS option but no luck.
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@xmad Thanks for the reply. Yeah I tried the bare bones set-up and still the same issue: motherboard powers up in a split second then powers off. I'm running out of options as I'm pretty sure that there is something wrong with the motherboard. I just hope MSI will replace this with no cost as i just bought this couple of days ago.
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Hello everyone and sorry to bother you but I don't know what to do anymore.
I bought a MSI Z87 MPower Max and yesterday I tried to start but there is no signal of life. No sounds and no fans. The only signal is the power led on the motherboard.
Another strange thing is when I press to long (about 5 seconds) in the power button the clr_cmos led turn on.
I have already checked the psu cables, if the cpu is corrected placed and with only one stick of RAM in the slot number 2.
I always press the clr_cmos between new tries and this night in take of the motherboard batery and left out over night.
If anyone can help me I will be grateful because I don't know what to do anymore

I am sorry, here's the information. Thanks
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Bios Version: Original one
Video Card: I don't have video card.
PSU: Fractal Design NEWTON R3 1000W
12v rail Rating of listed PSU: Single
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K
Memory: Kingston 16GB 2133-11XMP Predator (2x8Gb)
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MSI Z87 MPower Max - Bad board? Failed SATA and B2 problems????

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I started out thinking it was the RAID array since after it freezes it would reboot do a verification and find some errors, so I disabled the array and tried running the WD lifeguard on each drive, each one passed a full disk scan. I tried booting the system with 1 or the 3 drives unplugged, still froze so cycled through each drive, froze each time.
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Unplugged the entire array and just ran the HDD alone..... didn't freeze as frequently but would still freeze.
Swapped out the RAM with good ram... Still froze.
Swapped power supplies with a good supply... Still froze.
Removed all the components except the boot drive, the RAM and the CPU..... stopped freeze up completely, instead I would get microstutters where the system would freeze for .25 to .5 seconds then continue, could tell if you played a audio stream it would keep repeating (Even a buffered stream) did a latency test and interupts were flying like mad and taking a long time to process, with no specific driver or process assigned.
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Hi
Almost same story happened to me.
I have now 2 pieces of Z87 MPOWER boards and both have the same issues.
1. Board came with BIOS 1.5. I left BIOS B to 1.5 and flashed BIOS A to 1.7 with MFLASH method. I installed W8.1 on my onto my SAMSUNG SSD and the PC was working for 2 or 3 days.
Then I noticed strange behavior while booting. The SSD was not found sometimes. I hit F11 and the list was full of USB pen drive entries. Then I entered the BIOS and I have seen only two menu entries: Security and one more I don't remember. Inside of the menu items it was empty or some chinese letters. So I thought the Bios was currupted. Due to missing MFLASH menu I couldn't flash the bios via MFLASH, so I had to study the German MSI Forum. Then I prepared the USB pendrive with ABUDE method and I brought back BIOS A alive. Fine, I thought: It can happen but it shouldn't. But the boot problems came back....
2. The second board came and had BIOS 1.4 installed and I didn't touch board #1 anymore . So I flashed BIOS A again to 1.7 and you know already what's coming up. Totally the same story which I had with board #1.
I switched back to BIOS B and no problems at all with booting.
After a while I noticed some BSODs because of Killer EThernet driver (bwcW8x64.sys). I had so serious problems with that driver. The problem is: If the driver fails, you are even unable to go to the internet and look for a new driver, because your ethernet is dead. Very funny, but not for me. I got the drivers from antother PC and I tried to install them. During installation it was fine. The card was working, but I was forced to do a reboot. After the reboot, the ethernet card was disabled because windows coudn't load the driver. OK, that's a windows issue or a poor driver. I tried several times. No chance to get ethernet back alive. Finally I disabled the Killer Ethernetboad and plugged my former Intel Gigabit ET Dual Port Sever Adapter in. I thought, now I get rid of all the problems. Ha ha...
First was everything fine. Then the PC didn't want to boot anymore: BIOS message --> B2.
I hit del key: "Entering setup" message came up. Nothing more. Several times. Dead.
I plugged out the Intel ethernetboard. Bios came up. I put the ethernet board to another PCI slot. 2 days of working. later on, same story.
Then I switched back to BIOS B and no problems at all.
So what's up here with my 2 MPOWER boards, showing the same issues with BIOS 1.7? What I did wrong?
- MFLASH? May be. But I don't use it anymore. I use the MSIHQ USB Flashing Tool from this forum now which was also spread in the German forum.
- I never flashed BIOS beta versions, I always red articals how to flash and I think I did nothing wrong here.
- Overclocking? No. Unfortunatelly I bought an Intel i4770 CPU without K. Funny. So no overclock issues at all.
- Memory? I have fully equipped 32GB (G.Skill F3-2400C10Q-32GTX) and did the MEM86+ test successfully.
Day before yesterday I flashed BIOS 1.6 to BIOS A. All looks good until now. The intel ethernet board behaves well. No B2 messages.
I will further comment as soon there is anything new.
Do we have some issues with BIOS 1.7? I strongly belief....
I have seen BIOS V1.81 beta is out. But where is V1.8 official release? Anyway, I am tired of testing. If I do not have issues with 1.6 then I will use it.
Unfortunately the MSI Z87 MPOWER board is not yet widely spread. Otherwise we would have more user experiences.
Ok, any comments are highly appreciate it.
@ Corellon: Sometime I got A2 messages with black screen with BIOS V1.7
Which bios version had you installed when you experienced severe problems?
I guess V1.5 & V1.6 are save. 1.7 has got problems.

MSI Z87 MPower Max Board Not Powering Up

Hi.
I have recently put together a new HTPC / Gaming system build but am having difficulty getting it to start up. System specs below:
Board: MSI Z87 MPower Pro
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VGA: On Board
PSU: Seasonic X750 KM3
Intel Core i5-4670S Haswell 3.1GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1150 65W
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HDD: None at present but will be MSata SSD
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OC: N/A
OS: Windows 8 64bit
I have read that other people are having simialr issues with previous MPower boards (power for about 0.5 secs) and have followed all of the diagnostics and suggestions that have solved previous issues - To the point where I have removed the Mobo from the case, have only got the 20pin Motherboard connector attached, and 1 stick of RAM (In bay 2) of the board. I have attempted to clear the BIOS via the button on the back of the board as well as the removal of the back up battery. I have flicked between BIOS with no change also.
I am using the on board button for powering up (but the case button when connected has the same effect).
I am running out of ideas - I made doubly sure that all of the components that I purchased were compatible...
Any ideas??
Thanks.
Dan.

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have only got the 20pin Motherboard connector attached
What about JPWR 1 / 2? That is power for the CPU.

MSI Z87 Mpower fancontrol and disabling the iGPU

I have two questions about the Z87 Mpower mainboard:
First of all it seems that I can't control my CPU fans (2 Corsair SP120's, 3pin). Moving the sliders around doesn't change anything and they keep running at full speed. Is there any way I can check the voltages that the fans currently run on?
Secondly I want to disable the integrated GPU but I can't find any settings in the BIOS that allows me to do that. Am I not looking hard enough or is this (quite basic) setting just missing?
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Quote from: roelst on 11-September-13, 01:52:02
First of all it seems that I can't control my CPU fans (2 Corsair SP120's, 3pin). Moving the sliders around doesn't change anything and they keep running at full speed. Is there any way I can check the voltages that the fans currently run on?
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MSI is amazing on bios though, im about to switch from ASUS to MSI out of their really good implementation of PWM control on pure bios, but all my fans are PWM and im going to use some splitters that will draw power from a psu molex and control them all with the PWM signal of the CPU_FAN header, at least thats the plan. Asus is very restrictive on their bios on PWM control, 40% is what their new ROG series have, while MSI allows 12.5%, 25%, 37.5%, much lower than what asus offers. But on pure software, MSI is behind, its impressive what Asus has done with FANXPERT2, ability to by pass bios restrictions and fully control fans from 0-100% with mulitple points of tweaking... its very nice.
But back on the subject, check if you motheboard allows or has an option to change form PWM to Voltage control on the CPU_FAN header, else you will need PWM fans to control them via that header.

MSI Z87 MPOWER Not displaying through Videocard

I cant seem to get my motherboard to recognize and display through my graphics card. I have a MSI N770 Lightning GeForce GTX 770 which light up and seems to be getting enough power but never displays anything to the monitor. I have tried the card in a friends desktop and it ran just fine which leads me to think its the board causing the issue. My Specs are as follows.
PSU: CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W
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http://www.msi.com/product/mb/X79A-GD45-Plus.html
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I'm not the most advanced in this category, and I've certainly never experienced the likes of this ever. I've gone through the hardware configuration a thousand times, and I'd know if it were that.
I was wondering if anybody knew a few tricks to get this new board to boot. I'm suspecting it's probably something small and obvious I wouldn't ever think of.
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All fans are spinning fine, I'll get the PSU info later, I took it from an old system I built before my last deployment. It's an 850 watt (single 12 volt rail) system, not sure the exact specs on it anymore.
I do believe though, that I've managed to knock something loose as it keeps beeping repeatedly now when it boots. Before it was absolute silence on boot. (which is weird because i don't actually remember installing the speaker?)
Oh, the DVD drive is from another system too, and pretty old, but it opens, and functions.
I also swapped between onboard video, and the graphics card to see if it was maybe the graphics card and still nothing.
Though I have to use a DVI converter with the graphics card (which is pretty lame for a 200+ dollar graphics card to have two DVI ports and an SVID port, but no HDMI port.)
Anyway, I originally tried to boot with my 1080P television connected into the HDMI DVI* port for the mobo.
Keep good language in a forum!
Now if I can just figure out what was wrong in the first place eh?
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I was having some problems with the RAM using XMP profile (CORSAIR CMD16GX3M2A1866C9 2*8GB 1866MHz Cl9). Mainly I had some occasional reboots at windows startup and some rare random blue-screens but it all went away after updating the BIOS to version 1.7 .
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Hi everyone!
May I ask is my MSI Z87 MPower Max safe?
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May I know is that safe and normal? because I got the Noctua NH-D14 heatsink fan.
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