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Has anyone done the BIOS update from MSI that adds compatibility with the 5000 series Ryzen CPUs on one of their X370 boards? I have an X370 Gaming plus and wanted to just buy a 5800X3D and do the update. But before doing so I want to be sure it's not unstable or has any ridiculous drawbacks. If you've done the update, how was the process? I've never done a BIOS update on a personal rig so this is new to me.

Ok, I've never encountered a fix this silly, but I suppose it's not dumb if it works. Background: I have a computer built around an Asrock X370 Taichi board. It's been mostly rock solid save one thing: It had a couple of USB issues on one bank of ports on the back outside of warranty. No issues, port expanders (i.e. 4 to 1, etc.) exist. I believe that some of the USB ports are powered by a separate controller...but my most recent issue actually isn't related to that. I only provide that information for background. Scene: Recently, I updated the board from BIOS 3.3 (bridge) to 5.1 (effectively the next bridge) to verify I wasn't going to have major issues going to 7.0 and 7.1 to run a 5800X. After the update (and fixing settings again since it resets CMOS during this process), everything's as it was before, no issues. Cut to a week later roughly, tonight. I turn on my computer and note that my keyboard isn't working. I move the keyboard to a different port on the back, now we're good. Get into Win10 and note my external USB drives that are on a USB port expander (8 to 1) are offline. One of the USB controllers is listed in Device Manager as having problems/warning symbol. I restart that. The drives come up (File explorer opens a window for each drive as its default option on connection)...then go offline, then up, then down, etc. Now, nothing else is connected to that 8 to 1 save the external hard drives, and both of those are independently powered by their own wall-wart/power brick. The normal inclination would be to try connecting the external hard drives to a free port on the computer to see if they stay up...but this expander DOES have an extra power connection you can connect so devices on it can exceed the 500mA cap for regular USB. So I connect it to the expander...and my problems stop. To be clear, I connected the connection to the port expander. I did not and have not plug it into the wall or surge protector. All it has is a physical plug connected to the power port on the expander. The wall connection/wall-wart is sitting atop my desk next to the expander. ...uhhh, what? Everything is stable now. Now I'm starting to think that all my odd USB issues are related to this port expander, but the keyboard is plugged directly into the back. It had no power on boot, i.e. during POST, pre-Windows. I had no issues with BIOS updates, and I always keep my AMD chipset drivers updated. Could this oddity with the expander have still affected the bus and somehow caused JUST the keyboard to stop? Oh, and the keyboard? I tried moving it back to its original port on the back...and it works, no problem. Anyone else had a similar experience? Opinions? Educated guesses?

Having a rough time with a cpu upgrade. I apologize if this is a bit long but wanted to be thorough. Old cpu is a 1600X and I'm on a MSI X370 gaming pro carbon. I saw there was a bios update (7A32v1P2) with the new AGESA code and it lists support for 5600x so I went and picked one up for cheap at microcenter. Updated bios and verified it in windows then removed 1600X and inserted 5600X, hit the clear cmos jumper and figured I was good to go. Put some new thermal paste on the cooler (H100i v2) back on, tightened it down good and hit the power button. Wouldn't boot and I saw the debug led flash cpu, off, cpu, off then vga comes on and holds. Turned off and tried again but got the same sequence. Frustrated I undid everything and put the 1600x back in to make sure everything was still working and it boots no problem. Looked at some forums saying maybe I need to remove cmos battery and leave it out for a while to ensure it resets and maybe reseat ram or try one stick in. Okay let's try this again, 1600x out 5600x in, jump clear cmos pins and remove cmos battery. Ram out, put one stick back in the second slot where mobo recommends and even re seat my gpu (strix 1060 6gb) because why not. I then anxiously twiddled my thumbs while waiting a bit to put the cmos battery back (I didn't set a timer or anything I waited what seemed to be around 10 minutes). Finally put battery back in and crossed my fingers while turning the psu back on and hitting the power button just to get the same sequence leds as before. Defeated and not sure what to do I again removed the 5600X and put 1600X back in. Again it boots up no problem so I looked around on forums and triple checked bios and the compatibility to make sure I hadn't lost it, again seeing it is supported so I'm officially stumped. I have an msi b450 itx in another system I could try the 5600x in but I don't really don't wanna have to update it's bios and everything if I don't have to. Any ideas?

Hi. I've been considering purchasing a Ryzen 5600X to upgrade my old 1700 and keeping my motherboard, an ASRock x370 Fatal1ty Professional Gaming (basically a Taichi, so in fact there is the unofficial firmware to support the Vermeer CPUs). Check I was just wondering if I will require an intermediate CPU, such as a 3600 to properly flash it through the bridge versions. I've only upgraded the BIOS firmware to v. 5.30 or 5.80. Newer versions have this warning: Such warning makes me wonder if upgrading it will kill the support with the Ryzen 1700 or if it will be possible to follow with the updgrades until the v.7's that support Vermeer CPUs. In case anyone could shed some light, that will be greatly appreciated!

Hello LTT Forums. I am at my wits end here, and I don't know where else to turn for help, so I hope you can help me. I have gone through two PCIe/m.2 riser cards and two NVMe drives over the last couple months with returns and delays on shipping causing me many headaches, so I would like to avoid having to wait around for things again if I can identify the real problem and fix it or find a real solution. Now to business... My PC is an R9 3900X mounted in a X370 Crosshair VI Hero motherboard. I run Windows 11 off of a 1tb M.2 drive mounted on the m.2 slot on the motherboard directly, no problems there. I am trying to replace my old HDDs that I used for game and video storage with a new shiny WD 1tb M.2 that I bought in November. The issues started when I moved my BF2042 installation to the new drive and started playing. I was able to load into the game and play a bit, but if I tried to go back any amount of time later, trying to access the game would result in a Disk Write Error. Rebooting Steam at this point would cause the game to be "uninstalled". I would have to delete the NVMe driver from the Devices control panel and reboot the PC to get it back. Eventually the game started to crash after the "Joining Match" countdown, during map load, and then eventually would crash just during the main menu load. So that isn't consistent at all. I moved the riser to all of the available PCIe slots, both x1 and full length x4/8/16, and this solved the issue for a short time, but it would always come back. This continued for a little while, and I got a new riser to see if the riser was broken, but the behavior continued. Running CrystalDiskMark would work for a short time, and then start to exhibit the same errors, OR claim that the drive was working at 43GB/s r/w speeds, and the official WD SSD monitoring software would say the drive was 100% fine and dandy on my 2nd monitor until the game crashed, at which point the drive would vanish from the WD software entirely. So, I returned the drive, and bought a new Sabrent 1tb m.2, that had shipping issues and caused me many a headache, but I finally arrived yesterday. I installed the drive, initialized the storage and created a new partition, moved my games from my C Drive over to it, booted up BF2042 again and... it crashed. Disk Write Error. Same issue for every game. Same behavior entirely. Now... I guess it must be motherboard. But why? It's just a PCIe slot, right? Why does it work until it doesn't? Is there anything I can do other than buying a new motherboard and hoping that it doesn't happen on that one too? I like my motherboard, and I've had it since Ryzen's debut... so I'd love to not have to replace it. It's worked perfectly since I got it. No other board has this many USB ports. This was supposed to be a cheap storage upgrade for me, and now I'm just frustrated and sad. Thanks for reading!

Hi I have upgraded CPU in my system form 1700x with 4xDIMM to 3800x and write speed went down almost in half and my question is this effect for x370 having problems with my new CPU ? I can see lag in my system now in Chrome .. i am planning to upgrade my motherboard ( Asus TUF Gaming X570-PLUS WI-FI i can get it with warranty for half price so .. ). Maybe removing 2 DIMS will fix it ?

Hey all, just wanting to throw this out there before I decide to tangle up the funds in attempting this. I'm uncertain as to whether or not the X370 Gaming Pro Carbon (http://www.msi.com/Motherboard/X370-GAMING-PRO-CARBON/Specification) is actually compatible with 128GB RAM. Or 2x32GB for that matter. My buddy gave me his old board, and I'm contemplating maxing out the RAM. The MSI website says it supports 128GB, but PCPartpicker says 64GB. Also, I'n not even sure what CPU's will support 128GB other than either the Pro versions or Ryzen 9 chips. Thanks!

Sup. I have the x370 CROSSHAIR VI HERO wifi and I want to update my bios from version 1602, I installed when I got the mobo all those years ago, to support Zen 2. Do I just install the latest version or are there any bios' I need to update to in between? Can't seem to find anything on the support page mentioning it

Hey guys My Specs: Msi x370 Gaming Plus Ryzen 3100 Teamforce White 3000mhz DDR4 Ram Win10 Pro BIOS: E7A33AMS.5JP Ok my issue is when i had the 3200g cpu i could change the ram to 3000mhz but now with my new 3100 i cant... its keeps reverting back to 2400mhz and tells me memory overclock unsuccessful and i must press f1 to go back in bios If i select the A-XMP to enable it shows 3000mhz and if i disable it shows 2400mhz... Any reason why i cant select the 3000mhz?? Thanks guys

I got deals ryzen 5 1600 and AsRock X370m Pro 4 about $151... For 2020 its worth it or not and what about performance... Or Should i go for 3000 series instead??

Hi everyone, I am looking to upgrade to 32gb of ram because 8 isn't cutting it anymore. I have an Asus rog strix x370-f gaming and a ryzen 7 1700. I just want a set of ram that is reliable. I've been looking at these 2 options https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-2x16GB-PC4-25600-Optimized/dp/B07TB47MN4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J2Z5DBM/ref=mh_s9_acsd_al_c2_x_0_i?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=mobile-hybrid-3&pf_rd_r=DJPA4TAF6GWAFTMZN6BD&pf_rd_t=1201&pf_rd_p=415e4e0d-b5de-4fd2-b675-67ef9f9f09bc&pf_rd_i=20173412011 Both look pretty sweet and run at 3200 MHz Any suggestions or recommendations?

> I just upgraded my cpu from a 1700x to a 3900x. I already flashed the bios. When it starts it goes to black screen and sounds like I can hear 3 ticks from the cpu. It never posts. On my motherboard the ez debugger shows a red light lit on cpu. Specs: old cpu: AMD Ryzen 7 1700x new cpu: ryzen 9 3900x Mobo:msi x370 gaming pro carbon. Ram: 32gb (2x16) 3200 ram. PSU: 600w Graphics Card: gtx 1070. Storage: 2 m.2s (256gb and 1tb) and a 2Tb Hdd. Other: Total of 5 fans an a corsair h20 aio pump. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I've got an Asus X370 Crosshair VI Hero and currently have a Samsung 960 EVO installed. I'd like to ad a Crucial P1 1 TB drive for extra storage but only have a single m.2 slot. I'm planning to get something like the link below to make it work. Does it matter what Pcie slot I use? https://www.newegg.com/riitop-model-dul-m2tpce4x-pci-express-controller-card/p/17Z-0061-00062?Description=m.2 pci adapter&cm_re=m.2_pci_adapter-_-9SIA6V89GC6543-_-Product

I recently faced a weird a** isse in my PC. Suddenly I could feel that something was wrong in my PC and that it was having some issue like heating, I could smell the dusty smell when the pcb heats exhausting ffrom the back fan. Out of curiosity I opened Aida64 sensors tab and saw that my chassis fan speeds had decreased by 300rpm. I rebooted pc and went to reset bios, to my horror I saw that my ram had its voltage auto set to 1.5v out of the blue and freq showing 3200Mhz whereas I just had XMP on at default 3000Mhz 1.35V. Also my 12V voltage in bios tab was shown as 13V. I was scared shitless and turned off the PC. I then rebooted the PC to the bios and it took some more time than normal to boot into Bios and I saw that the voltages and ram speed were normal, even the fans had gone upto their original rpm of 1900. I thought to myself to reset the bios and went on to flash both the main and backup to its previous version i.e I rolled back the Bios. now I put the system on heavy stress in AIDA64 and measured PSU voltage from a spare molex with a multimeter and it read 12.04v on the 12v side and 5.07v on the 5v side. So what could the issue have been? PSU body temps near the exhaust grill was approx 42C, measured with an infrared thermometer gun. Specs are in signature.

Just created a Petition "Continue support Zen3 CPUs for older AM4 motherboards [Let's make AMD great again]" on the Change.org If you want to support - please follow this link http://chng.it/KDjKBw4c

Hello everyone! I have a problem with the XMP profile of my Corsair LPX 3200MHz RAM (CL16): For the life of me I just can't get the standard XMP profile to work with my AsRock Taichi X370 mainboard I'm not yet overclocking my CPU (Ryzen 1700X - but I really want to) or RAM so everything is on default in my UEFI-BIOS (even cleared CMOS)... When I select the XMP profile it even recognizes my exact RAM module! Following I can select the RAM kit (my CMK16GX4M2B3200C16) in the integrated settings (only one in the dropdown menu) and it sets the timings, the clock as well as the secondary timings plus optimizations. But it just does not work... after only applying these (standard) settings for the RAM (coming integrated from a BIOS-update) the board will not POST until it reset itself to 2133 MHz for the RAM clock. Changing various settings (according to DRAM Calculator for Ryzen 1.7.0 (Safe preset)) or increasing voltages (SOC and DRAM) also does not help. With the standard settings even 3133 MHz won't work for Windows (BSODs everywhere) - I had to dial back to 3000MHz (3200-timings) to even get into Windows... Before I updated the BIOS last time it already was not working under any circumstances that I tried (since late 2017, many BIOS versions and settings) - but now I have these integrated settings that finally should work (but dont)! Maybe someone of you has a tip or can help me? I would really appreciate any pointers or help in any regard with my longtime (very) frustrating setup! Thank you all for your time! (If I get my RAM to work at stock settings at last - I can finally start overlocking the CPU [maybe even the RAM]! That'd be so cool!) Setup: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X (Voltage: Auto) Mainboard: AsRock Taichi X370 (P5.60, AGESA Combo-AM4 1.0.0.1) GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Storage: Samsung NVME SSD 960 EVO + Samsung 830 SSD + 2x WD Blue 2TB HDD RAM: Corsair LPX 3200 MHz CL16 (see below) Manufacturer Corsair Series Vengeance LPX Part Number CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 Serial Number Undefined JEDEC DIMM Label 8GB 1Rx8 PC4-2133P-UA0-10 Architecture DDR4 SDRAM UDIMM Speed Grade DDR4-2133P downbin Capacity 8 GB (8 components) Organization 1024M x64 (1 rank) Register Model N/A Manufacturing Date Undefined Manufacturing Location Taiwan Revision / Raw Card 0000h / A0 (8 layers) DRAM COMPONENTS Manufacturer Hynix Part Number H5AN8G8NAFR-TFC Package Standard Monolithic 78-ball FBGA Die Density / Count 8 Gb A-die (Deneb / 21 nm) / 1 die Composition 1024Mb x8 (64Mb x8 x 16 banks) Input Clock Frequency 1067 MHz (0,938 ns) Minimum Timing Delays 15-15-15-36-50 Read Latencies Supported 16T, 15T, 14T, 13T, 12T, 11T, 10T... Supply Voltage 1,20 V XMP Certified 1600 MHz / 16-18-18-36-54 / 1,35 V XMP Extreme Not programmed SPD Revision 1.0 / January 2014 XMP Revision 2.0 / December 2013

I've got an Asrock X370 Taichi motherboard running the 2.4.0 BIOS (or perhaps the 3.0.0...pretty sure it's the 2.4.0). I have zero issues with memory compatibility (using a 2x8GB GSkill Flare X CAS 14 kit). CPU is a Ryzen 7 1700. I'm about to add another 2x8GB (exact same kit and specs as the first set) to the board. Is there any point in upgrading the BIOS? EDIT: I'm actually already on 3.3.0, so this would be upgrading from there. The support page for the BIOS for this board really doesn't lend itself to pointing out benefits: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370 Taichi/index.asp#BIOS That is, aside from using 3.3.0 as the bridge BIOS, then 5.1.0, then a maximum of 5.6.0 since I have a first generation CPU. Ideally I'd like to hear from people with the same board, but I welcome everyone's perspective here. I'm currently of the mindset of if I don't have any issues after adding the extra memory, I shouldn't bother. What do you think?

I seem to be having some weird issue with my X370 motherboard. The fans sometimes have this up and down pulse in speed and I have no idea why. I have a fan curve set in the BIOS but at random the fans just seem to ignore it by either ramping up or not really gaining any RPM at all. It al seems to have started when I tried controlling fan speed through UI software. Though I'm not sure if this is the case or just a mere coincidence. In all honesty all help is appreciated since there's times where it ramps up even in the bios where my max fan speed should be 65% PWM (ml140 fans are loud at anything above that) it just goes all the way to 100% at times. I just don't really know where to even start

I am thinking of upgrading my CPU and would like to hear what you guys think. Are there people who are running 3700X/3800X on a Asus Hero VI MBO and how is working out for you? My current setup is: Asus Hero VI with latest BIOS Ryzen 1700 at stock speeds 2x8 Trident Z DDR4 at 3200 XMP Kraken x52 ASUS 2080 Super Advanced Samsung EVO 500GB M.2 4xSata HDD Seasonic Ultra Platinum 650W Possible problematic areas here would be: 1.I don't plan on OC-ing the CPUs but I want to hear from people who are running the same setup. Any issues? 2. if I go for the 3800X will the power supply suffice since the TDP is 105W and not 65W? .

Today suddenly my ax370 mobo decided not to boot up. I tried for a hour and then removed rams. Now it started but reverted to backup bios F31 and gave memory error code on boot. I tried the usual change slot technique and it then magically reverted bios back to F40 and resetted itself. But now when I applied XMP settings it pooped itself and gave memory error with 3 beeps pause 3 beeps and shutdown. I then tried 1 stick at a time and booted with a single stick successfully with xmp. And now added a second stick and doing memory test on windows gave no errors. Can anyone tell if this is a particular issue with Gigabyte Motherboards? The ram is now working fine @3000 1.35v. its Gskill ripjaws V. Btw why and how did it revert the bios? Buggy bios version? I was on F40 when this happened but now updated to F41 as suggested by a Gigabyte RMA centre.

Hi, I have the X370 MSI Pro Carbon Motherboard. The motherboard have a lighting that lights up its io cover and the heatsinks. using it for 2 years now and suddenly the lighting is not light up anymore. There's a time I reset the bios and changing the fan somehow making the lighting turn backs on but after turning on and off my pc multiple times, the lighting is turned back off. I have try: i. Changing all fan from motherboard to PSU. ii. Format Windows 10 multiple times. iii. Reset bios. Update/change bios version. iv. Run all Bios setting on default. v: Reduce the use of power (turning off OC, plug off HDD and use minimal fan) vi: Check the setting on MSI Gaming App. Nothing works. Does my motherboard reach its end even though I didn't face other problems beside the lighting on the motherboard? PC Specs: - Ryzen 1700 oc 3.8GHZ@1.3125V - 8GBx2 Klevv Bolt 3000mhz DDR4 - GTX 1070 Windforce with ID-Cooling Aio GPU cooler (120VGA) - ID-cooling Aio 280mm Frostflow - Kingston A1000 240GB Nvme ssd - 2x1TB HDD (seagate Barracuda and WD Blue) - 2x140mm Cpu fan, 2x120mm case fan - Nzxt S340 Elite - Cooler Master MasterWatt Bronze 650W

I'm trying to OC my Ryzen 7 1700x to 4Ghz or even 3.9Ghz Set the multiplier (x38, x39, and x40) and boosted the VCore (1.375, 1.4, 1.425, and 1.45) but for some reason my multiplier still shows x30. CPU wont boost to 3.7Ghz even stock. I've reset BIOS, updated BIOS, updated drivers, cleared CMOS, checked all my power settings and can't find the AMD "cool and quiet" in the BIOS either. Ryzen 7 1700x Asus Prime x370 Pro The second, larger screen shot is AFTER i figured out the issue. Windows Advanced Power Plan setting had my CPU capping at 70% and idk how I missed it.

So I have an ASRock X370 Taichi motherboard. I am wandering if there is any way I can get the ASRock Polychrome software to run correctly on my motherboard, because the old RGB software (ASRock RGB) is not that appeasing and boring to use. Any advice?

Hello everyone! I hope you had nice holidays! I have been annoyed by this 100% disk usage for a year now and I am completely sick of it! I have read every article, reddit post and even LTT's posts on it with no solution. The computer Will lag upon using anything on one source and result in a random and weird 100% disk usage e.g: SSD (O.S + Most applications) HDD (Games) using chrome on the SSD won't cause the lag but playing a game WILL spike the disk usage. I have 2 HDDs, 1 M2 and two SSDs. At first I thought it was the HDD that was the problem but I was wrong. The reason is I switched SATA ports for both, resulted in a very long booting time (Up to 5 minutes) and using any application on the SSD or the HDD will return with a 100% disk usage. I kept doing that until the it booted fast and I tried the HDD and it was the same as the first case. I bought a 960EVO 1TB SSD this Christmas and low and behold...the same problem on the brand new SSD. It is not the HDD then. What is the problem then? I googled everything with no real solution. I disabled SuperFetch, modified Microsoft AHCPI controllers. Tried many things in the BIOS. The only time it works is when I unplug everything except the O.S SSD. Throughout all of that time researching I have noticed a few common things with this issue, I will list them for you guys. 1- The spikes happen randomly, and they freeze the entire PC. 2- 100% disk usage with 0 reads and writes, I tried Resource Monitor...same poop different toilet. 3- Sometimes, switching SATA ports constantly might solve it temporarily, however; it will come back! 4- This problem is mostly common with X370 chipsets so far, at least from what I have seen from all the posts I had. My specs: * Ryzen 1700 @3.0GHz * 32GBs of Ram @ 2800MHz * Kingston UV400 SSD 256GBs (O.S), two WD Blacks HDDs 2TB and 500GBs, Samsung 850 M.2 500GBs * GTX 1080 FE 8GBs * MSI X370 GAMING PRO * Windows 10 64 bit 1909 (Latest Update) if anyone can help this I would be grateful.

So I tried to turn on my PC this morning and suddenly my pc wouldn't POST... I looked up for help on some sites and only thing I found is that main bios broke (CPU and DRAM leds flashed one after another) and people said that I should hold restart and power buttons for like 10 seconds to change to secondary bios and it worked but, now I don't know if there is a way to fix main bios. Each time I turn off the power supply it changes back to main bios from secondary one which mean I would need to press and hold those buttons again and again... So does anybody know if it is possible to fix main bios and how to do it?