VGA and Boot LED after VGA-Bios Update - Black Screen, No BIOS, No Post

[Solios]

MB:

• MSI Gaming Edge Wifi X570

GPUs:

• MSI GeForce RTX™ 3060 Ti GAMING Z TRIO 8G LHR
• GTX 1650 Super
• GTX 770

So i came across this article (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-rtx-30-series-resizable-bar-support/) to enable ReBar

and i went ahead and got the MSI Dragon Center to initiate the VGA BIOS Update. It did its thing and restarted the PC automatically - after that i only got a black screen. No Bios or anything. Just nothing.

I checked on my MB and the Boot and VGA LEDs were red - well something went obviously wrong.

I reseted the BIOS via the Jumper and the Battery, didn't help. Tried with different GPUs, different PCIe slots (they GPUs work on a different System) same error - still both LEDs red. Every fan and every RGB works tho.

All options i found online didnt seem to help me - since most of them require that you can get into the BIOS with a different GPU or something similar - which isnt a option for me, since i just get a black screen regardless of what i do.

Now my question did this update really kill my Motherboard? Or is there anything else i can do?

 

[faye]

Find a USB flash drive, format it FAT32. An old small drive is fine - formatting will delete anything on it, so make sure to back it up first if needed.

Download the latest BIOS for your board from here:

MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI

Worth buying AMD AM4 X570 ATX gaming motherboard, lightning PCIe 4.0, lightning M.2, lightning M.2, Frozr heatsink, WiFi, USB 3.2 Gen 2, M.2 heatsink, good overclocking, extended heatsink, pre-install I/O, MSI GAMING

www.msi.com

Unzip the BIOS, rename it to MSI.ROM - if you can't see file extensions just change it to MSI or enable showing file extensions.

Do what it says above.

Hopefully that will unbrick it.

I strongly recommend never flashing a BIOS from Windows - the chances of something going wrong are much higher than from a command line or within the BIOS itself.

 

[Solios]

Thanks - i will try this. Usually i never flash BIOS from Windows. I simply followed the article from NVIDIA and the MSI Dragon Center cos i never did a VBIOS Update before. I know there are risks and i had to reset my BIOS already once after i OCed my RAM, but i never imagined doing the VBIOS Update via the Dragon Center would brick my whole system to the point even resetting the BIOS doesnt fix it.

 

[faye]

Thanks - i will try this. Usually i never flash BIOS from Windows. I simply followed the article from NVIDIA and the MSI Dragon Center cos i never did a VBIOS Update before. I know there are risks and i had to reset my BIOS already once after i OCed my RAM, but i never imagined doing the VBIOS Update via the Dragon Center would brick my whole system to the point even resetting the BIOS doesnt fix it.

Just to be clear - you updated the VBIOS, not the motherboard BIOS? And you've tried with another graphics card and are still getting no output?

 

[Solios]

Yes - i updated the VBIOS via the Dragon Center - not the mb BIOS. Other GPUs dont work either - same error. They do however work in a different system.

 

[faye]

Still try what I suggested above, but that's just bizarre...

 

[Solios]

Still try what I suggested above, but that's just bizarre...

You are a life saver.

I had try 3 different USBs until it worked, but it went through at last.

I am still confused how this killed my BIOS completly - but at this point am just glad that it works again.

Thanks again!

 

[faye]

You are a life saver.

I had try 3 different USBs until it worked, but it went through at last.

I am still confused how this killed my BIOS completly - but at this point am just glad that it works again.

Thanks again!

Label that USB and keep it in a drawer or something where you can find it in case this ever happens again!