alienware
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Wassat? :lol:
The board won't even power up. It powers on for a split second then reboots - repeat.
I'll RMA it with any luck and must remember to ask them to put 2.9 on it as 2.A is crap.
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Wassat? :lol:
The board won't even power up. It powers on for a split second then reboots - repeat.
I'll RMA it with any luck and must remember to ask them to put 2.9 on it as 2.A is crap.
I Hunta x
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From what i remember without going to google for an exact guide its basicaly
Grab a usb stick thats formatted to fat32, drop a copy of a bios for your board on it named AMIBOOT.ROM (must be caps iirc), throw it into the board, power it on and hold down CTRL + HOME for a few mins, it should reboot once its done. I guess you can tell if its doing its thing by the board not doing its power/off/power/off routine every few seconds.
How it works/what it does from what i remember is aslong as a certain part of the bios on the board is intact it should pick up the ctrl + home input and do its thing.
And im 99% sure your g45 is an AMI based board (American Megatrends Inc) so in theory it should work aslong as what ever part of the bios that handles the ctrl + home input is intact and doing its thing.
Grab a usb stick thats formatted to fat32, drop a copy of a bios for your board on it named AMIBOOT.ROM (must be caps iirc), throw it into the board, power it on and hold down CTRL + HOME for a few mins, it should reboot once its done. I guess you can tell if its doing its thing by the board not doing its power/off/power/off routine every few seconds.
How it works/what it does from what i remember is aslong as a certain part of the bios on the board is intact it should pick up the ctrl + home input and do its thing.
And im 99% sure your g45 is an AMI based board (American Megatrends Inc) so in theory it should work aslong as what ever part of the bios that handles the ctrl + home input is intact and doing its thing.
alienware
Banned
Hmm wish I'd known about that before I tore the entire PC down haha.
Bit late now tbh. I don't want to spend an hour messing around rebuilding it all to try it now.
Thanks though I appreciate you trying to help
I just have a really busy week coming up so don't have the time to mess around ATM. Am hoping I can get the board RMAd and shipped out ASAP because I'm away from Weds - Sat.
Still, looking at the bright side it gives me a chance to clean all of my components.
Bit late now tbh. I don't want to spend an hour messing around rebuilding it all to try it now.
Thanks though I appreciate you trying to help
I just have a really busy week coming up so don't have the time to mess around ATM. Am hoping I can get the board RMAd and shipped out ASAP because I'm away from Weds - Sat.Still, looking at the bright side it gives me a chance to clean all of my components.
I remember thinking I had killed a Asus board with flashing the bios, and tried to role it back but it failed.
Luckily the board had the Dual Bios chips and I found that I could switch to the other one, but that had issues on it so I had to dig out a old floppy drive and use that to flash it.
A few twitchy moments there, and the board was out of warranty so I wouldn't have been able to RMA it and at the time, I didn't have the money to buy a new one so was rather happy when I fixed it with a DOS Flash.
Luckily the board had the Dual Bios chips and I found that I could switch to the other one, but that had issues on it so I had to dig out a old floppy drive and use that to flash it.
A few twitchy moments there, and the board was out of warranty so I wouldn't have been able to RMA it and at the time, I didn't have the money to buy a new one so was rather happy when I fixed it with a DOS Flash.
alienware
Banned
Thanks mate I appreciate that ! thanks again for your help too. If MSI stall enough I might give it a go
I killed two Asus boards once (Crosshair II Formula) due to a problem with one of their bits of software.
Basically they gave you (on the CD) a app that allowed you to change the boot logo. Sadly it didn't effing work no matter what and would just brick the board.
Foxconns were the same too. Foxlogo was equally as broken lol.
alienware
Banned
Apparently I bought it from a company called Micro Peripherals who I have never heard of.. This was their email.
Dear customer,
According to our system this motherboard has been sold to Micro Peripherals.
Please contact them if they can help you to send the card in for RMA-service.
Their contact details are:
For all customer service enquiries :
customerservices@micro-p.com
Even though I bought it from Amazon. Starting to get frustrated now
Dear customer,
According to our system this motherboard has been sold to Micro Peripherals.
Please contact them if they can help you to send the card in for RMA-service.
Their contact details are:
For all customer service enquiries :
customerservices@micro-p.com
Even though I bought it from Amazon. Starting to get frustrated now
alienware
Banned
Nah this was specifically Amazon mate I don't usually use their marketplace.
It's not a huge problem just a PITA. I'm away on holiday atm so I can't phone Amazon til Monday but I'll be sure to tear them a new one. God knows what's wrong with their returns system ATM.
What concerns me is I need a specific bios on it as the latest 2.A hates my CPU. I need 2.9 which MSI could sort out for me.
It's not a huge problem just a PITA. I'm away on holiday atm so I can't phone Amazon til Monday but I'll be sure to tear them a new one. God knows what's wrong with their returns system ATM.
What concerns me is I need a specific bios on it as the latest 2.A hates my CPU. I need 2.9 which MSI could sort out for me.
Had a similar issue when I bought some Samsung 1Tb drives from Overclockers.
They had bought them from a company in Europe somewhere because they were selling them to anyone, far cheaper than what you could them in the UK at the time so Overclockers bought some from them.
When one of the drives died during the warranty period, it took nearly 2 months for the RMA process to be completed.
Atleast one thing that Overclockers did was to deal with the RMA rather than passing the job on to another company, like they did with so many things I bought from them.
Hope you get it sorted soon though.
alienware
Banned
They're just being dicks now. I'm sorely disappointed with MSI I thought they were better than this. Just email after email insisting I deal with Micro Peripherals.
I'll have to phone Amazon when I get home and have a go at them.
Really put me off MSI this has.
Update...
Right I decided to phone Micro Peripherals. It seems they are a distributor for MSI.
The person who deals with Amazon wasn't available so they took my number and are going to call me back (he says hopefully).
But yeah, seems this company buy stuff and sell it to Amazon. Never thought some one as powerful as Amazon would use a middle man tbh.
Update.
Phoned Micro Peripherals who to be fair are very nice and polite. I spoke with the guy that deals directly with Amazon and he told me that I can't return the board to him because I didn't buy it from him so I don't have an invoice number to RMA. This is all quite understandable and I kind of knew this would happen which is why I didn't contact them before.
MSI are steadfast and are point blank refusing to help me here so I'm going to have to argue with Amazon now and point out a few UK selling laws.
All very slow, annoying and frustrating. Even though I'm not a huge fan of their boards I think from now on I'm going to go with Gigabyte. It's a shame how many of these great companies we have out there who just refuse to take care of their UK customers.
Gay
I'll have to phone Amazon when I get home and have a go at them.
Really put me off MSI this has.
Update...
Right I decided to phone Micro Peripherals. It seems they are a distributor for MSI.
The person who deals with Amazon wasn't available so they took my number and are going to call me back (he says hopefully).
But yeah, seems this company buy stuff and sell it to Amazon. Never thought some one as powerful as Amazon would use a middle man tbh.
Update.
Phoned Micro Peripherals who to be fair are very nice and polite. I spoke with the guy that deals directly with Amazon and he told me that I can't return the board to him because I didn't buy it from him so I don't have an invoice number to RMA. This is all quite understandable and I kind of knew this would happen which is why I didn't contact them before.
MSI are steadfast and are point blank refusing to help me here so I'm going to have to argue with Amazon now and point out a few UK selling laws.
All very slow, annoying and frustrating. Even though I'm not a huge fan of their boards I think from now on I'm going to go with Gigabyte. It's a shame how many of these great companies we have out there who just refuse to take care of their UK customers.
Gay
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That's a bad attitude to have to customers, that MSI are doing there because most retailers will not process RMA's after the 1st 12 months of a warranty and instead, tell you deal with the manufacturer and if MSI are refusing to deal with it then thats bad.
Not had a issue with my old MSI board, to the point where it's currently sat in a box as a spare for my dads pc incase he needs it, but this is making me think it's probably a good job it's been rock solid for me.
Gigabyte are the ones I have had issues with in the past, but they always dealt with the RMA regardless of how old the board was and where I bought it from as long as I provided, a copy of the purchase receipt from the retailer but they just always sent the board back with the same fault they were supposed to have fixed.
Hopefully you get it sorted soon mate have you got a board at the moment so you can atleast use your pc?
Not had a issue with my old MSI board, to the point where it's currently sat in a box as a spare for my dads pc incase he needs it, but this is making me think it's probably a good job it's been rock solid for me.
Gigabyte are the ones I have had issues with in the past, but they always dealt with the RMA regardless of how old the board was and where I bought it from as long as I provided, a copy of the purchase receipt from the retailer but they just always sent the board back with the same fault they were supposed to have fixed.
Hopefully you get it sorted soon mate have you got a board at the moment so you can atleast use your pc?
Thats bullshit, did you aks to speak to el hadji or whatever hes called ?? I bought my motherboard second hand of a forum member here who bought it from caseking.de and i got a rma number within a day and a replacement in a week after the ram slots died due to a common fault....
There is no way they can refuse you a rma, why cant you send it back to amazon?? Amazon have to uphold the first year of your garuntee normally thats EU law..
I really dont get why msi are being dicks !!! Normally there top notch when it comes to rma....
There is no way they can refuse you a rma, why cant you send it back to amazon?? Amazon have to uphold the first year of your garuntee normally thats EU law..
I really dont get why msi are being dicks !!! Normally there top notch when it comes to rma....
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alienware
Banned
For some reason when I try and authorise a return with Amazon it gives me a message saying I can't return it as the cut of date was 1st March (30 days).
It's obviously an error at their end but I've been dreading phoning them as they're in Costa Rica or somewhere like it and it's a pain (broken English etc).
Ugh. Being passed around like a bloody birthday present at a kid's birthday is stressful. I wish some one would step up to the plate and just do what they're obliged to
It's obviously an error at their end but I've been dreading phoning them as they're in Costa Rica or somewhere like it and it's a pain (broken English etc).
Ugh. Being passed around like a bloody birthday present at a kid's birthday is stressful. I wish some one would step up to the plate and just do what they're obliged to
Josh Weston
New member
Good news at long last
