CPU’s

[Anagentofchaos]

If I have a ryzen 5 1500x CPU. do I have to download the most recent driver(s)?  Or will they come with downloading the newest BIOS for the MOBO???

[SnowyMus]

AM4 boards should support the Ryzen 5 1500X just fine, but I'd still update the BIOS for things like RAM support.

 

Your motherboard's BIOS will not install drivers onto your operating system. I'd recommend either letting Windows Update take care of your chipset drivers or going onto your motherboard vendor's website and downloading any needed chipset drivers from there.

[Anagentofchaos]

2 minutes ago, Kavawuvi said:

AM4 boards should support the Ryzen 5 1500X just fine, but I'd still update the BIOS for things like RAM support.

 

Your motherboard's BIOS will not install drivers onto your operating system. I'd recommend either letting Windows Update take care of your chipset drivers or going onto your motherboard vendor's website and downloading any needed chipset drivers from there.

But not from AMD’s website?  If I install the latest BIOS will it include the fixes of the other before it or do I have to go in ascending numerical order beginning with the bios after the one the board came with?

Edited November 29, 2017 by Anagentofchaos

[Tz000]

This is probably in the wrong section of the forums you might get more help if this could be moved to the CPU section just to let you know.

 

Not sure what drivers you are referring to... you need to be clear of what your trying to accomplish so people can help you effectively. 

 

Regardless of all that if your talking about building a PC with a ryzen cpu all you should have to do is install the CPU on the MOBO boot the computer,  download the new bios onto a flash drive, install new bios version (if any) then look for drivers on amd's website regarding your chipset/cpu for drivers or updates its quite simple.

 

good luck

[SnowyMus]

3 minutes ago, Anagentofchaos said:

But not from AMD’s website?  

Sure, you could get them from AMD's website.

 

https://support.amd.com/en-us/download

[Tz000]

3 minutes ago, Anagentofchaos said:

But not from AMD’s website?  If I install the latest BIOS will it include the fixes of the other before it or do I have to go in ascending numerical order beginning with the bios after the one the board came with?

You can just flash the bios to the latest version.  If your not sure what to do be sure to watch a tutorial on how to flash your bios.

[Anagentofchaos]

Just now, Tz000 said:

This is probably in the wrong section of the forums you might get more help if this could be moved to the CPU section just to let you know.

 

Not sure what drivers you are referring to... you need to be clear of what your trying to accomplish so people can help you effectively. 

 

Regardless of all that if your talking about building a PC with a ryzen cpu all you should have to do is install the CPU on the MOBO boot the computer,  download the new bios onto a flash drive, install new bios version (if any) then look for drivers on amd's website regarding your chipset/cpu for drivers or updates its quite simple.

 

good luck

So downloading only the BIOS isn’t enough, correct?

 

[FuzzyLogic]

Drivers and the BIOS are different things. The BIOS is found in the manufacturer's website, and is motherboard-specific. You need to unzip the folder it came in, put it on a flash drive formatted as fat32, go into your BIOS, and use it's flashing tool. Whatever you do after this, don't turn the computer off while it's flashing the BIOS or you'll have a large, expensive paperweight of a motherboard. Only update it if you really need to, like for compatibility issues with the RAM.

 

And yes, you still need to install the drivers. On AMD's website, you'll find the Ryzen drivers and the Ryzen power plan for Windows. Just download and install them and you should be good to go.

[Tz000]

Just now, Anagentofchaos said:

So downloading only the BIOS isn’t enough, correct?

 

Not sure what you are worried about not working... Like Kava said earlier just install the CPU in the MOBO boot the computer, update the bios from MOBO manufacturer's website, then let windows install chipset drivers and double check that they are the latest versions. You shouldn't need to do too much.

[Anagentofchaos]

49 minutes ago, Tz000 said:

Not sure what you are worried about not working... Like Kava said earlier just install the CPU in the MOBO boot the computer, update the bios from MOBO manufacturer's website, then let windows install chipset drivers and double check that they are the latest versions. You shouldn't need to do too much.

Does the cpu have any drivers?

[davyre89]

1 hour ago, Anagentofchaos said:

Does the cpu have any drivers?

Nope.