A MSI Motherboard (MS-6341)

[Robert Meldrim]

I was doing the live update of the bios of this motherboard when my ISP knocked me off-line. On trying to reboot, it wouldn't and the analyzer LEDs said that reboot stopped at "Bios sign on". I'm sure that this doesn't surprise most of you. I then went to ebay and got someone called 'santamonicali' to send me a serviced return, MS 6341, that he said was personally checked by him before he sent it to me. Well this replacement board stopped at the same place as the other; at the "Bios sign on" point, according to the LEDs.
Does anyone have any comments?
Thanks
Robert Meldrim

[BipolarBill]

Try using a different video card and remove all others. Make sure that the CPU fan is working.

[Robert Meldrim]

Bill, it took me a while to find another Video Card, I had another stick of DDR Memory, but neither helped me with this problem.
Robert Meldrim

[BipolarBill]

Odd. I guess that you should start from scratch. Remove the motherboard from the case and rest it on something non-conductive. Leave memory and CPU in place. Press in the video card and connect the monitor. Unplug everything else.

Fine the power button pins and short them with your screwdriver while pressing down on the video card. If it POSTs, it's good. If not, you should try another CPU.

Keep in mind that an AMD CPU will fry in 3 seconds (literally) if the heatsink isn't just so.

[bushmaster]

I use a # of MSI boards and the live bios feature is not an on-line flashing of your bios, but rather the applications ability to determine what version of bios thats currently on your board. I know that everytime I've flashed the bios on an MSI board after my version is detected I then have an option to download the flash utility and updated bios as a package and during that proceedure it will prompt you to first make a backup fd disk of your current bios set-up along with the flash utility on that disk in case something should go bad all you need do is boot from the emergency disc you were prompted to make. you can got to MSI's site and download the award flash utility and the newest bios and reflash by making a bootable rescue floppy.
1. Make a bootable floopy disk
2. Copy the Award flash utility & BIOS file to the said floppy disk
3 Create an autoexec.bat with "awdfl535 biosfilename" in the content e.g. awdfl535 a619mj21.bin
4. Boot up system with the said floppy (it will take less than 2 minutes before screen comes out)
5. Re-flash the BIOS & reboot.