X79A-GD65 (8D) flashing the 1.11 bios crash

Hi all,
I had used M-Flash under bios ( B bios ) to update from 1.8 to 1.11 bios, from my usb thumb
All seem to work, but after reboot the mahcine hang with 01 error code
I try to boot on my A bios ( never touch ), and my machine boot ( very slowly, perhaps du to 1.0 bios that doesn't support officialy my Xeon )
I am trying to repair my B bios before trying updating my A bios to 1.8
But for now, no success
What i have try :
Clear CMOS, remove battery, without AC : KO
Boot from A bios on DOS then launch the flash.exe : load bios to 100% then say me : error opening file for reading
Boot from A bios with MSIHQ usb thumbs, hang to first step, prepare to backup the new bios
Any idea people ?
Thanks a lot !

Hello to All !,
I want to write "what I did" with all details because I want to help you to define the problem and help to your customers too....
Same problem here... My machine mobo( X79A-GD65 (8D) ) was running on bios 1.8. After I download and install 1.11 it never boot up ( no display )
And gave error code( bios led code ) "01". So I switched my bios to B section( bios v1.0 never touched ). And I updated it 1.0>1.8. Updated succesfully.
Now I'm writing this message on my computer which is running on bios - B section v1.8. Interesting part is I can't clear my corrupted bios ( A section ) to 1.11 >to> 1.0 or 1.8 etc.
So, I have some questions for you guyz please write an answer, I'll very glad to any input of yours...
=Question ONE=
I try to clear A section with removing mobo battery and pressing cmos clear button. This operation didn't clear it.
( * I didn't move CMOS jumper to the clear position because it hasn't a jumper and I didn't found one - Also I tried to hack it via metal cables - no luck )
I switched to B section and I saw B section's date and clock settings gone.... ( 01/01/2005 ) So that means I cleared cmos memory (?- I didn't understand that part either)
Now I think, I can ask my question: How can I reset my bios A section with working in bios B section ? Or what is the proper way to clear corrupted A section ?
Also, I watched the video about - how to clear cmos "https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=31222.msg178956#msg178956", the cmos jumper pins are different compared with my mobo.
Can you post an image or paint picture to on what pins that we should use a jumper ?
=Question Two=
You are definitly far better than 4sus company, why you didn't test this bios to all different computers
These operations that I told you eat my 4 hours( searching the problem; removed memory slots-noluck, removed cpu-noluck- try to hack cmos jumpers pins-noluck etc. ).
So I'm very SORRY for my english but I'm very tried to write correctly... Thanks to all again... Best Regards from Turkey - Orka

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