Booted a 1st Gen Ryzen on X570 Aorus Master

[vagike]

I can't take credit.
I stumbled upon this "ability" from "The Tech Tank" on Youtube (he is/was part of UFD Tech) when MSI sent him a MEG X570 Unify, but only had a 1st gen Ryzen CPU.

 

Well, it works on with a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master too.

I flashed to oldest available BIOS on Gigabyte's website.

 

Anyone else tried?

 

[Letgomyleghoe]

pretty old news https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-first-gen-cpu-run-on-x570-motherboard

[vagike]

I guess I never followed that close.

[Letgomyleghoe]

1 minute ago, vagike said:

I guess I never followed that close.

youre making me wonder about second gen on b550

[vagike]

At least I can swap mobo and wait for some Zen 3 chips to come available.

[Senzelian]

5 minutes ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

youre making me wonder about second gen on b550

Should work just fine. After all second gen works on x570 too.

[Letgomyleghoe]

3 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

Should work just fine. After all second gen works on x570 too.

b550 doesnt have official support for second gen or first

[Senzelian]

Just now, Letgomyleghoe said:

b550 doesnt have official support for second gen or first

Oh, didn't know that. I just assumed it would be the same as X570. Good to know!

[Letgomyleghoe]

14 minutes ago, WikiForce said:

and vice versa, i expect 4th gen ryzen to work with a320 mobos

4th gen is mobile and oem only, i do believe it runs on a320 though

[vagike]

So first issue I ran into was Mobo/CPU would not recognize my Patriot Hellfire NVMe in Slot 1/A, but no issue in Slot 2/B.
Went back to BIOS webpage, and saw there was revision for dealing with some PCIe compatibility; rev F11, IIRC.

Now NVMe is recognized in Slot 1/A.