![]() ![]() but fortunately they all use the same BIOS file - the final release is Revision 1.3 released way back on Decemthat only fixes a failure issue with Smart Fan. Quick perusal through MSI's global site shows that the MS-7037 comes in three flavors. Then again - what do I know?!? I've only been building and fixing computers for a couple of decades. Hate to break it to you, but MSI was found in Taiwan way back in 1985 or so. ![]() They'd boot your dog out of your favorite chair if it has a USB port. until circumstances force them to spend money on updating/upgrading those tools plus the larger capacity flash chips to store it on. And they'll keep using old and deprecated tools to build BIOS, firmware, driver installer packages, etc. Taiwan is ripe with software piracy, and one should never be surprised to find that certain OEMs or motherboard makers are using Award's code on their products illegally - i.e without paying for/having a legal license to do so - and the culture of Taiwan is "If it ain't broke - we're not fixing it". Secondly is a painful reality: even if Award/Phoenix fixed these issues on their end does not mean every OEM or Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer told their engineers to drop what they're doing and grabbed those updated modules from Award/Phoenix's servers in order build a new BIOS ROM for their wares. The reason I say not to flash the BIOS is two fold. Hopefully, you have something more recent than that. Plenty of FAQs online and how to achieve that - it's not hard, just tedious. ![]() heads, cylinders, sectors) of a ZIP disk before it'll boot off of it. Abit NF7S nForce2) will only have "USB-ZIP" and that makes it more problematic as the BIOS is going to demand that the USB stick emulate a ZIP disk, and that means being formatted as FAT but with the proper geometry (i.e. Then it becomes a crap shoot with your boot order - more recent machines with AwardBIOS 6.0PG have "USB-ZIP", "USB-FDD", and "USB-HDD" as options in the boot priority that are guaranteed to work. Machines with AwardBIOS 6.00PG have a bug that makes them choke on syslinux/isolinux on FAT32 formatted USB sticks, but usually boot fine if the stick is FAT/FAT16, and "Legacy USB KB/Mouse/Storage" is enabled in the BIOS. Before risking the BIOS to an unnecessary flash, make sure the USB stick is formatted using FAT/FAT16 instead of FAT32 prior to using either unetbootin or pendrivelinux. ![]()
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