Hi. You have two options. Either you use the Live Update feature of MSI, which updates your BIOS, drivers and firmwares, or you create a bootable USB flash drive. I use the flash drive option, because I do not have confidence in BIOS upgrades via windows...
The BIOS is basically a program. It is executed on the CPU. The CPU is the heart and soul of the whole system. Without it nothing works.
Booting from a flash drive still requires a CPU to be installed. It is just an option and an advisable one as well to do BIOS flashing, since it is more...
Mine works fine with an MSI K9A2 Platinum board (on board ALC888) and a Gigabyte iSOLO 210 series case.
Note that there are two types of front panel connectors. Older cases came with AC97 front panel audio, which is not capable of detecting headphones and also tend to be more noisy.
My case...
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