do i actually need the bios update?

[Lilninjsways]

I have this mother board ASRock B250M-HDV LGA 1151 Intel B250 HDMI and this is my processor Intel Pentium G4560 Kaby Lake Dual-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1151 54W BX80677G4560 Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 610 do I need an update? but if I do what happens if I don't? there's nowhere near me (unless I drive 2 hours) to get the motherboard updated

[iRileyx]

2xx chipsets dont need a bios update to run Kaby Lake processors. So you're fine.

[manikyath]

you dont *need* bios updates, but they're made for a reason so you probably should *want* them.

 

bios updates are actually part of the standard updates we do at work along with drivers, and windows updates

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also, if anyone's gonna yammer that bios updates can brick your board even if you dont do anything wrong, ~30 computers just the past week, no bricks yet

[Bananasplit_00]

8 minutes ago, manikyath said:

you dont *need* bios updates, but they're made for a reason so you probably should *want* them.

 

bios updates are actually part of the standard updates we do at work along with drivers, and windows updates

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also, if anyone's gonna yammer that bios updates can brick your board even if you dont do anything wrong, ~30 computers just the past week, no bricks yet

updated my BIOS yesterady, the the computer lost compleate track of what was a bootable drive and since then, every time i need to start it i have to go via the boot menue, so yah, there are risks involved. anyway almost never do you get any problems but they are around and if you do something wrong or the BIOS file has a slight corruption you could definatly brick your motherboard. 

 

this is a 200 series chipset board, it should work no problem without an update

[manikyath]

6 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

if you do something wrong

that, my friend, is called user error. no amount of software engineering can protect things from user error.