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MSI RC410-M Bios Update Help

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:58 am
by davoss
I need to do a bios recovery after a failed flash but cannot find a suitable bios file. The motherboard is a MSI RC410-M Rev: 1.03 with an AMI bios have searched and searched with no result. Can anyone help ???
Can load bios file I've got on floppy but comes up with :

Starting FLASH Recovery.
ROM Checksum is bad.
NVRAM data will be destroyed.
CMOS data will be preserved.

Ending FLASH Recovery
Flash Update failed.
FLASH ROM not detected.
System Halted

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:03 am
by Denniss
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func ... incat_no=1
at least some infos there, don't know why they did not have biosfiles there.

MSI seems to have another board with a very similar name - RC-410M2
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func ... incat_no=1

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:14 am
by Denniss

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:15 pm
by davoss
Don't know if I'm doing it right but copied file onto floppy and changed name to AMIBOOT.ROM. When I booted computer it read the floopy but still came up with :

Starting FLASH Recovery.
ROM Checksum is bad.
NVRAM data will be destroyed.
CMOS data will be preserved.

Ending FLASH Recovery.
FLASH Update failed.
FLASH ROM not detected.
System Halted.

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:53 am
by Denniss
Use a freshly formatted Floppy disk, do a full format without copying systemfiles onto it.

Start with Bios 1.0, then try 1.1 and 1.2 - it may be possible the recovery procedure is searching for a specific Bios. IF the standard recovery fails try inserting the disk and holding CTRL+Home keys while powering the system one. It may force another recovery method.

Are you sure nothing other is damaged - such a bad Bios error may either be caused by a bad flash or by bad RAM (if the RAM is damaged in a specific area where parts of the Bios reside).

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:02 am
by davoss
Thanks for your quick replies Denniss will try that when I get a chance

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:18 pm
by Denniss
BTW - what happened during the failed flash ?

Did you lost power while updating or did you use a wrong Bios ?

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:23 am
by davoss
Lost power during flashing then when I turned it back on fan started and the floppy drive was looking for disk but nothing else.
Was using the V1.3 bios

Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:44 pm
by Mopatops
Davoss,

Any news on your BIOS recovery. I've exactly the same thing happening to mine, I have tried every BIOS version.

The floppy drive will read the AMIBOOT.ROM file then throw out the same error you received.

I've ordered an almost identical motherboard from Ebay as I've almost given up on this one, please let me know if you sorted it.

Thanks

Steve