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George Ou is Technical Director of ZDNet.
December 24th, 2007
Vista deactivates me for upgrading motherboard firmware
Posted by George Ou

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=938
December 24th, 2007
Vista deactivates me for upgrading motherboard firmware.
This is also called FLASHING the BIOS..
Josh please read this...

Twas the day before Christmas and all I got from Microsoft and MSI was Vista’s kill switch, a buggy motherboard BIOS, and horrible tech support from MSI. The following is the screenshot of what I saw after I upgraded my problematic motherboard’s (MSI P965 Platinum) BIOS firmware.

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tried to upgrade the BIOS to version 1.7 but the BIOS update was faulty and both the online Live Update or booting from a CD to DOS bombed with an error message of “Error: Problem erasing flash050000 (31%)”. MSI tech support was absolutely NO help to me and they simply told me to redo the update from DOS (which I already told them I tried) or they told me to go back to the vendor I bought it from. Eventually MSI support told me to download it again and I noticed that version 1.8 was available and I managed to use version 1.8 to upgrade my MSI P965 Platinum board.