Thanks! Thatll be helpful since I have no idea what to look for. Assuming the MSI website has it?
Thank you!
ask for refund from intel for bad processor and buy AMD
When you got the PC did they give you the motherboard manual book? That should give you the exact model that you have.
Looks like they’re just a system integrator so its just all off the shelf stuff so you’d go straight through MSI to get an updated bios. Once you can find the exact model you just download the bios file, put it on a thumb drive, restart your PC & mash delete until your in your bios and then there’s an MFlash utility. Go into that, select thumb drive and then the bios file and it’ll do the rest (Your PC will likely appear to be off for a bit, dont touch it. It should reboot you into windows once its completely done)
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You’ll have a BIOS update at your motherboard manufacturer website available if you have an Intel 13th or 14th gen processor.
Intel 12th Gen and 15th Gen are fine, but it still is a good idea to have a BIOS updated if there are ANY issues at all. If no issues, don’t fix it if it ain’t broken.
Yeah. I’ve been away from the boards so my TL isn’t high enough to post links, but going to their support and looking for BIOS update should put you on the path.
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Every IT professional i have spoken to has always recommended NOT to update your bios.
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Depends on what the update fixes/does. In the OP’s case, sounds very critical to do it or roast the CPU over a fire type scenario.
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Good way to ensure whatever protection you have on it to deny your claim
They told you the fix and you refused to do it
I know nothing about computers but have friends who are IT professionals. I explained them the issue and showed them the wow error message. They told me to do nothing. No clue whats right or wrong just relaying what i have been told.
If it was older parts, then yea its usually safer to not update cuz most people don’t know what theyre doing it
With the modern stuff its been streamlined a lot so its much easier to do, and they usually keep a backup by default incase anything goes wrong
This scenario its much safer to actually do it
What could possibly go wrong?
You should hit up your IT friends for a new rig when your CPU goes.
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BIOS updates are done in Windows now. After you run the program, you just reboot.
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The bios update is to prevent the issue from manifesting.
Once it manifests, your only option is to replace the physical CPU.
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Then they should retire.
Intel’s advice is to fix this through bios updates.
People normally say don’t update the bios unless you have a reason to do so.
This is the reason they are talking about.
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So happy I did not upgrade to the 14th gen over the summer when I thought about it then saw all these videos of the chip literally cooking itself. Still rocking the I9 10900K with an Asus board and still a solid system.
You need to go to the website of the company that built your system. It is not uncommon that they will use a different BIOS than the one supplied by the motherboard manufacturer. In fact MSI does not use the same BIOS it sells with their motherboards in some of their own pre-built systems. For at least some of their pre-built systems there are no updates for custom BIOSes that include the changes to reduce, not fix, the over voltage issue.
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With some boards that have come out recently sometimes they actually do. Because with high end boards they may add a feature or fix a bug that affects some systems and then it’s necessary to do it so it actually works like it says on the box.
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