AM4 BIOS CPU Support

[nootnoot1277]

Hey guys
the best board i can afford for AM4 is the Asrock B350 Pro4 which is a great looking board with alot of features only lacking sli unfortunately. However i read a comment that said that these boards need a BIOS flash to support Ryzen 3 which i plan on using specifically the Ryzen 3 1200 and i really don't want to muck around with BIOS flashing in the first place let alone with a new-ish platform that has had bios versions brick several motherboards. I dont know whether or not to believe this or not as Robert Hallock on twitter said that all Ryzen cpu's are drop in regardless of bios version as seen here:

Whats the answer guys? do these boards actually need a bios flash or would it be all good with the R3 1200 in it from factory?

[Lurick]

Maybe contact their support directly?

I see a lot of people saying you can get a pre-flashed BIOS chip from them, if it doesn't work out of the box.

[Bananasplit_00]

Can't see why it won't work, pretty sure it will already have a supported BIOS. Doubt they added R3 support along the way

[Skiiwee29]

you will be good right from the factory. The BIOS is design for the Ryzen architecture so you flash will be necessary for these chips to work out of the box. 

[paddy-stone]

You'd be best to flash the newest BIOS regardless, for RAM support if nothing else. I have this board and BIOS flashing is very straight forward. Just DL the newest BIOS and put it on a flash drive, enter into the bios and go to the m-flash option... select flash drive and update BIOS. Takes around a minute maybe, when it's done it will restart itself. There's not much danger of bricking, this board has crashless BIOS, meaning if something goes wrong, the board will try to re-flash itself from a flash drive.

[nootnoot1277]

11 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Maybe contact their support directly?

I see a lot of people saying you can get a pre-flashed BIOS chip from them, if it doesn't work out of the box.

and i presume just swap the bios chip in or?

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, nootnoot1277 said:

and i presume just swap the bios chip in or?

Yah, from what I read their boards don't have a soldered chip so you just swap it out.

[nootnoot1277]

2 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

You'd be best to flash the newest BIOS regardless, for RAM support if nothing else. I have this board and BIOS flashing is very straight forward. Just DL the newest BIOS and put it on a flash drive, enter into the bios and go to the m-flash option... select flash drive and update BIOS. Takes around a minute maybe, when it's done it will restart itself. There's not much danger of bricking, this board has crashless BIOS, meaning if something goes wrong, the board will try to re-flash itself from a flash drive.

Oh ok awesome that makes me feel alot safer about flashing it in the future then, so how does that work then does it have like a backup bios chip or do you litterally just put a usb in with a different bios and it somehow flashes from that?

[paddy-stone]

Just now, nootnoot1277 said:

Oh ok awesome that makes me feel alot safer about flashing it in the future then, so how does that work then does it have like a backup bios chip or do you litterally just put a usb in with a different bios and it somehow flashes from that?

The motherboard detects of the BISO has crashed I believe, and automatically looks for a BIOS to flash itself in the USB ports. Not sure of it's a specific port, or whether any will be sufficient to do it. Wouldn't be a problem anyway, as if you did find this problem ASrock support should guide you through some steps to try and resolve the issue... and if they couldn't get it working like that should arrange for an RMA. Not likely to happen IMO though, this board is absoloutely rock solid.

[nootnoot1277]

7 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

The motherboard detects of the BISO has crashed I believe, and automatically looks for a BIOS to flash itself in the USB ports. Not sure of it's a specific port, or whether any will be sufficient to do it. Wouldn't be a problem anyway, as if you did find this problem ASrock support should guide you through some steps to try and resolve the issue... and if they couldn't get it working like that should arrange for an RMA. Not likely to happen IMO though, this board is absoloutely rock solid.

Awesome thanks mate im alot more committed to this setup now that i know its so reliable and safe.

[paddy-stone]

3 minutes ago, nootnoot1277 said:

Awesome thanks mate im alot more committed to this setup now that i know its so reliable and safe.

No worries. Just take it slowly and don't rush the build, check documentation when you need to. Less accidents should happen that way. Good luck, and people here to help if needed to

 

[nootnoot1277]

1 minute ago, paddy-stone said:

No worries. Just take it slowly and don't rush the build, check documentation when you need to. Less accidents should happen that way. Good luck, and people here to help if needed to

 

Definetly will do since this is my first AMD build and my first more modern build (most modern build i have runs am i5 2400 and a 780) so this is gonna be a new experience.