Flash BIOS utility seems to be the most useful of them.

Set the ROM size, which is 4MB in our case, and find the preliminarily downloaded BIOS update file on one of the drives. “Open” icon will open the file manager for you:

Once you click “Flash BIOS” icon, the BIOS will be updated. I didn’t check the way “Erase” icon works fearing that the board may fail on me before I complete the review.

Boot Screen Utility allows setting the user image in BMP or JPG format with the help of a similar file manager. This image will be displayed on system boot-up.

And when you click Live Update, the system will ask you to insert a previously created UEFI CD disc into the drive. The MSI web-site page devoted to MSI Click BIOS has a Download page where you can get not only the new BIOS update, but also an image of a compact disc with software and tools called MSI Extras Disc. This archive is about 45MB big and when you extract the files it will expand to about 100MB, which need to be burnt onto a CD disc.

I personally didn’t like Live Update utility. Once you launch it, you get the following message:

I waited a moment. Then another moment, thinking it could be poor connection to Taiwan. Then I just went to take care of a few things. When I got back, the screen was dark. Moving the mouse didn’t bring it back to life. Pressing space bar didn’t help either. It turned out that this was exactly what needed to be done for the utility to start looking for updates and all this time was simply wasted. And would you have guessed that you need to press Enter or space bar for it to actually start working?

I believe that it should have terminated or closed the program, don’t you think so? Anyway, but after waiting for another moment (which really was a moment this time), I got the following message:

In fact, I had the latest version 1.07 reflashed already, so this utility can’t really detect the correct BIOS version and updating it may be a waste of time again. You can exit this utility only by rebooting the system.

By the way, which word do you think was highlighted on the previous screenshot: “Reboot” or “Go”? I thought it was “Reboot”, because it was of different color. In fact, the word “Go” was highlighted, and “Reboot” shadowed and inactive. It is not very illustrative, IMHO. But this exact same highlighting is used in the entire Click BIOS. For example, on the next screenshot the word “Yes” is highlighted, and not the word “No”:

HDD Backup utility allows saving an image of any hard disk drive partition on another HDD or in another partition. You can restore the data also very easily. The only drawback here is that this utility will only work with partitions formatted in FAT, FAT32 and NTFS.

The “Games” section is frankly a disappointment. There are only three games that are also on the Extras CD disc: Puppy Run, Pair Match and Break-Out.

Puppy Run is a sort of Digger, Snake or similar games: the puppy has to eat bonuses and avoid enemies. Pair Match also has nothing original about itself: you get a quick glance at a set of cards and then have to find all pairs as quickly as you can. Break-Out is arcanoid. These are all very popular and well-known game types, but they are all made in a pretty primitive manner, so they will hardly be of any interest to anyone. So, why do we need them? By the way, there is one more game on the disc called BangBang, but for some reason it is not displayed in the menu.

That’s about it. We have discussed all the functions of MSI Click BIOS. Windows Vista OS loaded just fine, but the processor clock frequency multiplier and Vcore didn’t get lower in idle mode. Processor power-saving technologies didn’t work for some reason, although they were enabled in the BIOS. At this point we completed our work in MSI Click BIOS. Luckily, we didn’t have to repeat the same complicated routine with USB flash drives and typing in long command lines. It was really great to see Flash BIOS get us back to the “traditional” BIOS in no time.