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How To Update BIOS on an MSI Motherboard

2017-01-20
everyone just a quick video on how to update BIOS for an MSI motherboard particularly the new Z 270 gaming probe Carbon reasons you'd want to do this include expanded memory support this fixes memory frequency support so it supports the higher end frequencies and if you have a z170 board and you want to support KB Lake chipsets you would use the same approach first go to the manufacturers website for this we pull up support for Z 270 GamePro Carbon then sort by BIOS and then download the latest bios version that you want and then save it to a USB key once you've got a saved on key you can restart and enter BIOS Wireless rebooting this content is brought to you by a thermaltake and a new core p1 tgd chassis which is a mini ITX wall mountable case so we're in bio it with BIOS you only need one option really and that's em flash make sure you have your USB connected it will ask you if you want to enter flash mode say yes it's going to reboot and enter a mode where you can either save your BIOS configuration in case he wipes everything you needs restored or you can flash a new BIOS on there flashing BIOS means that you are rewriting the firmware with a new set of instructions basically so in doing this there is an inherent risk that you could damage something make sure that there is no system power loss do not power down the system what it's trying to flash you may enter an unrecoverable state so we're going to go into my BIOS folder you can see we have our USB key the BIOS folder let's go there and there's the BIOS hit enter on it are you sure you want to use this file make absolutely certain that it is the correct BIOS for the correct motherboard do not use one for a different board because you will destroy your motherboard so this is flashing it's got a progress bar thankfully and once it's done you will be good to go you restart the new BIOS is there you might want to enter BIOS just to make sure everything is how you like it so that is all for this video very easy article below contains a step by step instruction set and some common links we did this previously for a tooth it was very light so we're doing it for MSI and we'll do it for gigabyte BIOS are and others and your future if you have any questions post them below thanks for watching and subscribe for more I'll see you all next time you
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