Updating Drivers and BIOS

[Hi P]

When I assembled my PC two weeks ago, downloading the motherboard drivers didn't cross my mind until now, and that got me thinking:

 

1.- Do I need to install some kind of CPU drivers too? (Ryzen 2600)

 

2.- Regarding the mobo, do I Install all the recent drivers under Audio / Chipset / LAN / SATA / WLan+BT along the BIOS update?

(click for the motherboard driver page)

 

3.- I have Windows 10 ver. 1809 and I noticed that some drivers say "ver. 1803 supported", does that mean mine isn't supported yet?

 

4.- Is there a safe and reliable program that would keep all my drivers updated?

 

5.- If for some reason my PC shuts down during the BIOS update, does the motherboard become unusable or can it be fixed?

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, Hi P said:

Do I need to install some kind of CPU drivers too? (Ryzen 2600)

nope

 

1 minute ago, Hi P said:

Regarding the mobo, do I Install all the recent drivers under Audio / Chipset / LAN / SATA / WLan+BT along the BIOS update?

Yes, but I find the most pertinent are chipset and audio, maybe LAN, but usually I don't bother with the others.

 

2 minutes ago, Hi P said:

I have Windows 10 ver. 1809 and I noticed that some drivers say "ver. 1803 supported", does that mean mine isn't supported yet?

You should be fine.

 

2 minutes ago, Hi P said:

Is there a safe and reliable program that would keep all my drivers updated?

Unfortunately no.

 

2 minutes ago, Hi P said:

If for some reason my PC shuts down during the BIOS update, does the motherboard become unusable or can it be fixed?

It's ruined, so be careful the power doesn't cut or anything! Not very likely though.

[Simon771]

Windows 10 1809 is fairly new for normal consumers, so it's no surprise that vendors haven't tested all the drivers with all components on new 1809 version.

But there wasn't anything that major done with this update, so I don't see any reason why you would have problems with this.

 

You better hope, your PC won't turn of in the middle of BIOS upgrade ... it will get bricked and will need to be sent to repair. Luckily my motherboard have 2x BIOS, so if I brick one, I still have one as a backup.

[Hi P]

3 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

You better hope, your PC won't turn of in the middle of BIOS upgrade ... it will get bricked and will need to be sent to repair. Luckily my motherboard have 2x BIOS, so if I brick one, I still have one as a backup.

So if it happens to me I can just RMA it or something like that to get it repaired?

[Simon771]

2 minutes ago, Hi P said:

So if it happens to me I can just RMA it or something like that to get it repaired?

Yeah I would, if it's still under warranty.