To open the Downloads folder, click on the Start button in Windows 10, click on Documents.
FLASH MSI BIOS ZIP FILE
– On the support page for the MSI B450M Pro M2 MAX motherboard, the download of the BIOS zip file downloads to the Windows 10 Downloads folder when you click on the red circle with a red arrow pointing down within it. Update/flash BIOS – Download the BIOS file that usually comes in a zip fileģ.
FLASH MSI BIOS UPDATE
The update page usually tells you what each of the updates fixes, updates or adds. The next update was A.80, which is three updates up from the A.50 BIOS file that was in place. Best to avoid betas because they are still undergoing testing. The latest BIOS update was a beta test version. That link goes straight to the support page (see the image at the top of this page) that provides the update to download. The process is similar when using the website of any other motherboard manufacturer – Asus, Gigabyte, ASRock, etc.Įnter the exact make/model of the motherboard plus the word BIOS in a search engine – msi b450m pro m2 max bios. – Obtain the latest BIOS file from the msi.com website. Click on the image to view its full size, Update/flash BIOS – Obtain the latest BIOS file from the msi.com websiteĢ. If you want to update the BIOS of a laptop computer, visit its manufacturer’s website (Dell, HP, etc.) Update/flash BIOS – CPU-Z tool identification of BIOS version. Note that you can also use CPU-Z to identify the motherboard (mainboard) that a desktop PC is using in order to be able to visit the motherboard manufacturer’s website that provides BIOS and all other updates. The image below shows the BIOS version after the update – A.80.
In my case, it was the AMI BIOS A.50 version. Use the free CPU-Z tool to identify the existing BIOS in use by that motherboard. The steps taken to update/flash BIOS of an MSI B450M Pro M2 MAX motherboardġ – What follows is how I found and applied the latest BIOS update for the MSI B450M Pro M2 MAX motherboard.
FLASH MSI BIOS INSTALL
Using a live-update feature that you download and install and flashing the BIOS with the update using a USB flash drive are the two most popular methods. In short, you should use recent hardware to update/flash BIOS. Fortunately, the update was successful when done using a USB 3.2 flash drive (using the FAT32 format) and a USB 3.2 motherboard port on the back of the case. Which means that the USB 3.2 headers on the new motherboard were connected to USB 2.0 cables running from the front of the old case. All of the other components were brand new. Now, due to improvements in the updating software, only a power cut can render a computer useless during a BIOS update.The software can detect if the BIOS file is wrong, corrupt or there is something wrong with the flash media.įor example, I tried unsuccessfully to use an old USB flash drive (15 years old, FAT32 file system) to perform the update, using the front USB port of an ATX case of the same age. Only a power cut can render a computer useless during a BIOS update The update could fail if using the wrong or a corrupt BIOS file, a dodgy floppy disk or drive, or a power cut during the updating process. When a failed update could render your computer completely useless, requiring the motherboard to be sent to its manufacturer for repairs. The days are long gone when it was a dodgy but necessary business to use a floppy disk and drive to update/flash the BIOS of a make/model of motherboard.