BIOS update questions

[UcheGanizani]

Hello!
I have an ASUS PRIME B350 Plus motherboard, and I want to update it from version 3401 to 6042 - will this work, or do I need to install some versions "inbetween" those 2?
ALSO I have an AMD 2400G, and I heard that it may or may not stop working properly on the newer version of BIOS, is this true?
Yes IK that this sounds really stupid, but I just want to be sure xD

Thank you.

[MonkeyBomb]

It's possible that it'll lose support for the 2400.

 

I know someone with a B450 Tomahawk and once he updated to the latest bios it lost support for his 3200g

[Middcore]

There are no notes on the board's BIOS release page saying you can't jump to the newest version. There is a note on a release from 4/2019 recommending you update the AMD chipset drivers before the BIOS.

 

The 2400G is not noted as being dropped on any BIOS releases in the CPU support list, nor are any other chips. Typically it was the A6/A8/A10/A12 APU's that were dropped when space ran out on the BIOS chip. 

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

There is a very high chance the 2400 was dropped from bios especially after they added 5000 series support. 

 

The bios chip it's self just doesn't have the space.

 

I recommend NOT flashing the bios on your board just to flash it.... cause you want to, but for no real reason. It will save you a lot of headache just leaving well enough alone.

 

But good luck either way!

[Middcore]

28 minutes ago, Guest 5150 said:

There is a very high chance the 2400 was dropped from bios especially after they added 5000 series support. 

 

if so, it's not documented on Asus's product page for the board in any way that I can see. 

 

I do generally agree that flashing a new BIOS isn't a great idea unless the new release fixes a specific bug or adds a specific feature which is relevant to you. 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Middcore said:

 

if so, it's not documented on Asus's product page for the board in any way that I can see. 

 

I do generally agree that flashing a new BIOS isn't a great idea unless the new release fixes a specific bug or adds a specific feature which is relevant to you. 

They are not good about which versions cover which chips, it just tells you the revision the chip would start being supported at. 

 

99% of people of this particular tech forum don't or don't need to flash beyond the factory stock bios revision. Either A, not aware, B, scared to do so. 

 

Bios revisions don't add features to a motherboard. I've never heard of that.

 

At most compatibility and stability updates (which most people don't notice, cause A, XMP only, B, don't have issues in the first place) 

 

If people where really looking at overclocking in a serious competitive approach, they probably wouldn't be coming to this particular forum for that.

 

Bios update + casual gamer = unnecessary 90% of the time. 

 

Kinda like OEM boards. You get maybe 1 or 2 bios revisions and that's it. This way people can't brick their systems.

[Middcore]

19 minutes ago, Guest 5150 said:

They are not good about which versions cover which chips, it just tells you the revision the chip would start being supported at. 

 

Unless you have specific evidence to suggest he's going to lose support for the 2400G by updating, you're just spreading FUD. 

 

It's possible, that sort of stuff has been the case with other boards, but I can't see any documentation of it here. 

[Guest]

17 minutes ago, Middcore said:

 

Unless you have specific evidence to suggest he's going to lose support for the 2400G by updating, you're just spreading FUD. 

 

It's possible, that sort of stuff has been the case with other boards, but I can't see any documentation of it here. 

Sigh, I know right!!??!!??

 

Shrimpy so well known 14,000 posts to spread FUD.

 

whatever man. Do your own google searching to prove me wrong, cause I'm not doing it to prove myself correct. 

[UcheGanizani]

Thank you for your contribution guys
I actually tried to contact ASUS' tech support but lol that link where you contact them doesn't even work, it simply does not send my text, stops at 99%.

[Middcore]

19 hours ago, Guest 5150 said:

Sigh, I know right!!??!!??

 

Shrimpy so well known 14,000 posts to spread FUD.

 

whatever man. Do your own google searching to prove me wrong, cause I'm not doing it to prove myself correct. 

 

Ability to churn out lots of posts (more than twice as many as me with an account half as old, you're a busy bee) doesn't say anything about your credibility. 

 

I don't need to prove anything. You're the one making the claim, it's on you to prove it. It may be correct, such things have been known to happen. But since you have nothing to back it up and you've offered no suggestion for how the OP can find out whether it's true, all you've accomplished is raising a vague specter of unease. I think that's a rather shitty thing to do to someone who's clearly not very experienced. 

 

@UcheGanizani Unless you're going to replace the 2400G with a CPU that requires a newer BIOS, or you have some other specific practical reason to want to update, I would just leave well enough alone. 

[Guest]

21 minutes ago, Middcore said:

 

Ability to churn out lots of posts (more than twice as many as me with an account half as old, you're a busy bee) doesn't say anything about your credibility. 

 

I don't need to prove anything. You're the one making the claim, it's on you to prove it. It may be correct, such things have been known to happen. But since you have nothing to back it up and you've offered no suggestion for how the OP can find out whether it's true, all you've accomplished is raising a vague specter of unease. I think that's a rather shitty thing to do to someone who's clearly not very experienced. 

 

@UcheGanizani Unless you're going to replace the 2400G with a CPU that requires a newer BIOS, or you have some other specific practical reason to want to update, I would just leave well enough alone. 

Well, I've been around before Linus Tech Tips and Mr. The 8auer. Which whom uses my shaving razor method for delids in a tutorial I made somewhere in 08 or 09.

 

Credibility in the link below.

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=ShrimpBrime&oq=ShrimpBrime&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61l2j69i60j35i39l5j0i13.3013j0j7&client=ms-android-comcast-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#ip=1

 

And I didn't say that 100% it wouldn't work after a bios flash. I said high chance.

 

And even the reason to follow it ...

 

B350 boards are known to be equipped with a small storage space bios chip. So to add agesa code, they have to remove some agesa code.

 

You can do the proving wrong thing. I gave you credibility. But don't plan on trying to prove myself correct when I already know and understand the information I've shared with you.