outdated motherboard

Honestly if this guy can hang till 2 more months he can buy the new Zen series cpu and board

it is said AMD is set to smash intel in the coming months

thank you all what started this thread was trying to get optimum performance out of my samsung 850 pro ssd. with all the information here i have several options. the first would be to learn how to update my bios to v17.20, hoping i will get ahci. secondly, get the gigabyte board which would need ddr4 ram and latest amd cpu, ouch. if i need to build again it would be an intel i5. a simple step by step on how to update bios would be appreciated. some of the videos i'm watching are confusing. thanks pothound

Download and run MSI's live update utility:
Support For 870A-G54 | MSI USA | Motherboard - The world leader in motherboard design

Pick Windows 8 64-bit for the OS system, live update is the top one under utilities. It says for Windows 8 64-bit but works in Windows 10 as well.

Here's a youtube video:
MSI® HOW-TO use Live Update 6 to update BIOS - YouTube

hi i am doing bios update using live update program and it has been updating for 15 min. now and i,m getting worried.what should i do if this continues? thank you pothound

NavyLCDR said:

Download and run MSI's live update utility:
Support For 870A-G54 | MSI USA | Motherboard - The world leader in motherboard design

Pick Windows 8 64-bit for the OS system, live update is the top one under utilities. It says for Windows 8 64-bit but works in Windows 10 as well.

Here's a youtube video:
MSI® HOW-TO use Live Update 6 to update BIOS - YouTube

What stage of updating is it at?

bios is updating. it has been 30 minutes now. pothound

NavyLCDR said:

What stage of updating is it at?

the mouse was showing locked but is'nt locked. should i unplug it and see what happens? thank you pothound

pothound said:

bios is updating. it has been 30 minutes now. pothound

I would CTRL-Alt-Del, open task manager, kill the live update process/app. Rerun live update and scan for utilities, make sure you have the latest version of live update. Then scan for bios again and see what it says

i stopped it. it says .net framework 4.0 is required. this in text document. i have latest version of windows 10. i expect it to be there. i haven't started it yet. doing some research. thank you pothound

NavyLCDR said:

I would CTRL-Alt-Del, open task manager, kill the live update process/app. Rerun live update and scan for utilities, make sure you have the latest version of live update. Then scan for bios again and see what it says

My live update is version 6.2.0.05 and is running on Windows 10 64-bit. I've flashed my motherboard bios with it. I probably have all the required .net frameworks, though. With the Live Update screen open, click on the i with the circle around it upper right corner.