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I currently have 1700x and ordered my 3600 for store pickup tomorrow, I’m trying to update the bios of my aorus b450 mini itx pro WiFi but it has all these weird steps such as (before update bios to f40 , you have to install ec fw update tool b19.0517.1 or later version to avoid incompatibility) what on earth does this even mean. I’ve never updated a bios before and don’t want to damage my parts

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3 minutes ago, Earnist_ said:

I currently have 1700x and ordered my 3600 for store pickup tomorrow, I’m trying to update the bios of my aorus b450 mini itx pro WiFi but it has all these weird steps such as (before update bios to f40 , you have to install ec fw update tool b19.0517.1 or later version to avoid incompatibility) what on earth does this even mean. I’ve never updated a bios before and don’t want to damage my parts

 

All it is saying is to download and run the update tool within Windows first, before update the BIOS pass version F40.

 

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6 minutes ago, Earnist_ said:

I currently have 1700x and ordered my 3600 for store pickup tomorrow, I’m trying to update the bios of my aorus b450 mini itx pro WiFi but it has all these weird steps such as (before update bios to f40 , you have to install ec fw update tool b19.0517.1 or later version to avoid incompatibility) what on earth does this even mean. I’ve never updated a bios before and don’t want to damage my parts

What BIOS version are you on? (if you don't know, open CPU-Z (if you don't have it installed, install it first) > go to mainboard and see what it says under BIOS).

 

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1) Update to F32

2) Boot into Windows then install the EC FW Tool from the utilities section and run it

3) Update to F40

5) Update to F51

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