B550M-A Pro installing bios without CPU - MSI Global English Forum Is it possible to install bios without a CPU for this motherboard or am I totally screwed? Check the compability which was fine, but didn't read that the bios needed to be updated (in some B550 motherboards) beforehand, which is causing an incompability issue
X570 flashing bios without CPU - MSI Global English Forum I just purchased an X570 Unify for the same reason, the online manual doesn't seem to include the instructions but on page 41 of the user guide included in the box it states you can flash with a usb and motherboard only
updating bios without CPU - MSI Global English Forum Sadly, for some reason that's beyond me, MSI have chosen to only include the Flash BIOS Button USB Flashback feature on the boards with a Z-series chipset (with the H670 Tomahawk WIFI DDR4 being the only exception)
MSI MPG Z790 EDGE WIFI + i9 14900K - how to flash bios for first boot 1 Download the latest BIOS from the MSI support site for your board and extract it: https: www msi com Motherboard MPG-Z790-EDGE-WIFI support 2 Take a USB stick and format it to FAT32 (it's best for it to have a size of 32 GB or less) You can also try Rufus for formatting, as FAT32 non-bootable 3 Rename the extracted (!)