Motherboard BIOS Update Not Needed?

MylesAndMore · February 21, 2019

Hi everyone,

I am building a budget PC. My motherboard is the ASUS Prime A320 M-K. I am also using the Ryzen 3 2200G.

When I was looking at the Amazon reviews page, I found that people using the 2200G had to update their BIOS with another AM4 CPU, which I don't have. Even ASUS's CPU support page confirmed that!

I found that I could order a "boot kit" from AMD to boot my system, so I could apply the update.

But when my motherboard came, had a "AMD Ryzen Desktop 2000 Ready" sticker on it.

The box on ASUS's website and Amazon's don't have that. So what should I trust?

I included some pictures so that you can see the difference.

Can anyone help me out here?

Tristerin · February 21, 2019

I would put my CPU in and try.

Nothing can go wrong if it doesn't have the update. It just wont post.

Crunchy Dragon · February 21, 2019

19 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

It just wont post.

Or it will behave similarly to having a dead CPU.

Either way, it'll be obvious if it works or not when you try it.

Ryzen will bootloop a few times on its first startup, so if that happens, it's perfectly normal and nothing to be alarmed about.

HoneyBadger84 · February 22, 2019

It's completely possible the board is a newer one in terms of manufacture date and Asus already did the BIOS update for you. Most makers do that these days to avoid issues with boards having a severely outdated bios when shipped. Not positive if this is common practice for Asus, but I know it is for Gigabyte and eVGA as the Z390 board I got from Gigabyte came with a BIOS much newer than the board. It still needed a bios update (to the F8e bios), but it had one that was new enough (F6 I think) that my 9900k booted and wae recognized in BIOS for what it was.

Make sure you do get yours updated to the latest one if it boots up, as bios updates typically improve ram support and stability.