Z87 Mpower Max Windows flash gone bad.

have a MSI z87 Mpower Max motherboard. While flashing with live update, windows crashed during "erasing flash" part. I did get it to boot into like a temporary BIOS by putting 1.2 version bios on a CDROM and letting it find it then it says "bios file damaged" i entered the bios to reflash but when i select the BIOS file from my USB flash stick (its just the file and the flash utility) the BIOS locks. I dont know if it's flashing or what it's doing.... If you recover this way, are you suppost to make a USB Flash drive that is bootable in DOS? or while its "locked up" is it actually flashing the bios to recover it ? I'm confused. I've left it for a good 10 minutes, still the same screen, still locked. Any help appreciated.

Best to remove Live Update from your system. Windows flashing is to dangerous as you have already discovered.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=160450.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=169794.0

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