Preamble:
For many new computer DIY players, they may still feel a certain sense of strangeness about refreshing the motherboard BIOS, after all, as the underlying system of the motherboard, it is not like the system that can be broken and reinstalled, in case it is broken, it will have to be returned to the factory. However, with the rise of AMD in recent years and INTEL's replacement of CPU interfaces less frequently, the service cycle of motherboards has been extended a lot compared with the past, so it has become the norm for a generation of motherboards to use two or more generations of CPUs.
And the competition in the motherboard market also allows the brand to add new functions in the follow-up motherboard update BIOS, in summary, users learn to update the motherboard BIOS is very beneficial, and with years of technology iteration, the motherboard update BIOS has been quite foolish, today Ah Lu will come to you out of an issue of how to update their motherboard BIOS, it can be described as a nanny level, quite simple, you may wish to like and collect it in case of emergency.
Hardware used in the tutorial:
The motherboard uses MSI Z790 MPOWER, as a product positioned to focus on memory overclocking, I believe that many users who buy it are DIY players on the computer, and the operation of updating the BIOS will definitely be used, so the overclocking performance of the new version of the BIOS will always be better, so it is also quite suitable to use it to update the BIOS tutorial.
The most striking thing about the whole motherboard is the large MPOWER logo on the power supply heatsink, which makes people recognize it as MPOWER at a glance.
Printing time sequence, external frequency, clock frequency, clock, voltage nouns, players who often toss the computer for overclocking must be no stranger.
Don't look at the small motherboard, it is equipped with 12+1+1 phase digital power supply, of which the maximum carrying current of each phase is 75A, after all, it is positioned as the Z series, and it is necessary to make a margin for the power supply capacity of the overclocking CPU for players. This power supply configuration is also no problem on the 14th generation flagship i9.
It can be seen that the CPU power supply and cooling module is made of remarkable materials, all metal materials, and the heat dissipation area is large enough, which can dissipate the heat of MOSEFT well.
It stands to reason that the MATX version is completely qualified to do four memory slots, but the Z790 MPOWER motherboard focuses on memory overclocking, through independent line design, reducing impedance and reducing short-circuit interference, so as to ensure the stability and reliability of memory high-frequency signals, which is also the confidence that it dares to shout the slogan of 8000+MHz high-frequency memory for everyone. In addition, now the single memory capacity has also evolved to 16GB or even 32GB, so the two memory slots are enough for the average person's application needs, and the motherboard currently supports a maximum memory capacity of 256GB.
In addition to the memory can be supersed, although the Z790 does not lock the frequency multiplier, the CPU can also be supercharged, but the MPWOER series is to implement the overclocking positioning, so it is equipped with the OC engine, which refers to the external clock generator Renesas RC26008, with which the motherboard can safely and effectively superclock the processor with the non-K suffix, so as to achieve the function of non-K overclocking.
Both M.2 ports are equipped with heat sinks, and the first M.2 connector is also tool-free for easy assembly and assembly.
The south bridge heatsink is also embellished with overclocking elements, and the heatsink is quite thick.
Rear IO interface configuration at a glance: 4*USB 2.0, DP+HDMI, 3*USB 10Gbps, Type-C (20Gbps) T, 2.5G rate RJ45 wired network card, WIFI 6E wireless wireless network interface, 7.1 audio interface and coaxial optical audio interface, basically everything.
The memory is Kingston Renegade Renegade FURY 32GB (16G×2) set DDR5 7600MHz with INTEL XMP 3.0 certification. This series has DDR5 6000MHz~8000MHz frequency band options, and the capacity is also 16GB~64GB, to meet the needs of users with different needs, the silver and black aluminum vest looks quite good-looking, the built-in on-chip ECC core on-board PMIC provides more reliable stability, and two independent 32-bit sub-channels can greatly improve the data efficiency of multi-core processors.
The power supply of the test platform uses MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5, which meets the 80PLUS gold certification, adopts a full-module interface design, adopts full-bridge LCC resonance and DC-DC structure, natively supports ATX 3.0 specification and PCIe 5.0 power supply (12VHPWR interface), and can transmit up to 450W of power to the graphics card.
Preparation:
Open CPUZ to check the BIOS version of the motherboard.
Open the official website to find the download page of the product, find the BIOS version you need to update, and download it. (Each new version of the BIOS will have descriptions, new features, or bug fixes for older versions, etc.) For example, the picture above shows that the BIOS has been updated to include support for 256GB of RAM.
Prepare an EXFAT USB stick.
After downloading and unzipping, there are these two files in the folder, and the entire folder is copied to the USB flash drive.
Setup Tutorial:
Press the DEL (decimal point) button on the keyboard at the moment when the console lights up the screen to enter the motherboard BIOS interface. Some brands of motherboards are F2, and there will be a prompt on the screen when you turn on the specific computer, so you can do it.
Select Chinese Simplified in the upper right corner, and good English can be ignored.
Find the M-FLASH option, after selecting it, it will prompt you to restart to enter FLASH mode, click confirm, the machine will automatically restart, calm.
After restarting, it will automatically enter the M-FLASH interface, which is circled and highlighted, and three points should be confirmed: select the USB flash drive to mount the BIOS, whether the BIOS file name information is correct, the BIOS version information, and whether the module name of the current BIOS is consistent with the module name of the selected BIOS.
After confirming that the above is correct, press enter and select Yes.
If there is no accident you will see the screen in this BIOS update, just wait, do not restart or shut down, and wait for the progress bar to reach 100%.
Then the computer will automatically restart, enter the system desktop, at this time the computer can be used normally, it should be noted that the original BIOS settings will be restored to factory settings after updating the BIOS, after all, it is a new BIOS, so it is recommended that users with overclocking settings can archive the BIOS settings to the U disk, and directly load the original settings after updating the BIOS.
In the P00 version of the BIOS, there is no memory limit configuration mode in the overclocking option
The P13 version of the BIOS has a memory limit mode, which greatly improves the memory overclocking performance of the motherboard.
Summary:
After reading the above set of tutorials, do you think that updating the BIOS is not as difficult as you imagined? For users who like overclocking, hurry up and toss, as long as you are bold and follow the steps carefully, you can also do it, go and try it.