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I do recall having the same issues you describe, and am trying for the life of me to remember what I did to resolve it.Also Read : How to Fix Unable to Complete Format on USB Flash Drive I originally bought an MSI B550 Tomahawk mobo last year as part of my Ryzen 5000 upgrade. I think I used FAT32 and default sector size, FWIW. Unfortunately I can't do any testing to confirm either way though, as I ended up RMA'ing the board soon afterwards anyway, due to a separate issue (intermittent POST errors & system instability) and replaced it with an Asus equivalent. In my case I'm pretty sure I ended up trying a spare USB2 drive that I keep handy for BIOS updates, and that worked. renaming BIOS file, using correct USB port, holding button down until LED comes on etc, then I think this probably does boil down to the mobo being fussy about USB sticks. If you've followed all the other steps (which it sounds like you have), i.e. But you are correct in that only PSU 12V aux needs to be connected for flashback process. I certainly wouldn't worry about having caused any damage by trying the process with CPU, RAM etc. I do recall having the same issues you describe, and am trying for the life of me to remember what I did to resolve it. I'm just curious as to whether anyone else has had trouble using bios flashback in general, & MSI's implementation in particular? Did you manage to use it sucessfully?I originally bought an MSI B550 Tomahawk mobo last year as part of my Ryzen 5000 upgrade.
Again, the motherboard manual makes no mention of this. The other piece of advice from the Youtube video was that you should use a USB 2 memory stick, not USB 3. I'm just curious as to whether anyone else has had trouble using bios flashback in general, & MSI's implementation in particular? Did you manage to use it sucessfully? Now, the motherboard manual doesn't say anything of the sort - it says the you can use flashback on a bare motherboard, but certainly doesn't say that it's important that you do. In fact, one video stated that you run the risk of bricking your motherboard if you do attempt bios flashback with a cpu, memory & video installed. Looking for help on Youtube, I found several videos which suggested that the bios flashback facility should only be used on a motherboard without a cpu, memory or video card installed. Unfortunately despite many attempts using the bios flashback with downloaded bios files from the MSI website, I couldn't get the system to boot - the screen remained blank, & the debug LEDs still indicated an unrecognised cpu. Sure enough ,once I attempted to boot up the system, the debug LEDs on the motherboard suggested that the cpu wasn't being recognised.
The motherboard is an older board that I thought probably had an older bios that didn't support AMD 5000 series processors, but since the motherboard has the bios flashback facility, I went ahead & put the system together, knowing that I'd probably have to use flashback to get the motherboard to recognise the cpu. I've been trying to put together a new AMD pc, using a 5900X processor and an MSI motherboard.