Posted June 19, 2018 I want to update my AsRock X370 after I have already installed everything on it and been running the whole system on win10 for about a month. It's currently still running it's version that it came with because I forgot to flash it after I finished building it. Now I'm stuck with an outdated BIOS version and can't run my ram at it's 3000MHz because the necessary XMP profile (3.0) is not an available option. I thought it'd be all safe and sound to simply update but I came across some posts and AsRock's official website that all told me that it was "not recommended to do so, if your system runs normally already". Anyone who can tell me what the best option would be for me? In case the specs are needed: Ryzen 5 1500x AsRock TaiChi X370 GIGABYTE GEFORCE GTX 1050TI Corasir Vengance LPX 2x 8GB DDR4 3000MHz Corsair 750w PSU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2018 I'm admittedly not one who avidly updates their BIOS, but that seems a bit crazy to me. Something I'd recommend is backing up your hard drive and then go ahead and do the update. See what happens. I find it very unlikely you would run into anything that would damage hardware by trying that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2018 It is a toss up. Sometimes you can boot right back into the OS with no problems, and sometimes it requires a reinstall of windows after a BIOS flash. I would recommend doing a fresh install after flashing the BIOS anyway, just to make sure you don't run into any weird issues down the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2018 Author 5 minutes ago, Kered124 said: It is a toss up. Sometimes you can boot right back into the OS with no problems, and sometimes it requires a reinstall of windows after a BIOS flash. I would recommend doing a fresh install after flashing the BIOS anyway, just to make sure you don't run into any weird issues down the road. That's exactly what I was afraid of, because I do not want to buy yet another win10 key, or would I be able to reuse the one I used for copy I'm running right now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2018 You can definitely reuse the same key you are currently using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2018 always run latest bios with ryzen especially for the ram. ive update mine too a few days ago and now I have even oc'ed my ram to 2800 from the stock rated 2400 Let's agree to disagree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2018 2 minutes ago, EightBitLoxs said: That's exactly what I was afraid of, because I do not want to buy yet another win10 key, or would I be able to reuse the one I used for copy I'm running right now? I didn't had that problem, my windows is still gucci Let's agree to disagree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2018 Author 1 minute ago, Kered124 said: You can definitely reuse the same key you are currently using. Thanks a lot! I'll be sure to backup my 1 tb of deisgn files and flash my bios after Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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