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Im making my first build and after i made the purchase of a gigabyte ab350n motherboard and noticed that it wasn’t up to date with the bios making it incompatible with my cpu.

 

 can i boot into bios with the incompatible cpu to update bios from a flash drive and then be at peace or would i have to go to a technician or get a compatible cpu or get on amd’s boot kit program

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, GPU: Asus ROG Strix GTX 1070, RAM: T force rgb 16gb 3200Mhz, Mobo: Asrock B450M Pro4, Storage: Adata 128Gb SSD and Seagate Barracuda 1Tb HDD 7.2kRPM, PSU: Corsair 750W 80+ bronze,Case: Corsair 280x, Headphones: Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 Wireless, Speakers: Bose Companion Speakers

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2 hours ago, Moonman21 said:

Im making my first build and after i made the purchase of a gigabyte ab350n motherboard and noticed that it wasn’t up to date with the bios making it incompatible with my cpu.

 

 can i boot into bios with the incompatible cpu to update bios from a flash drive and then be at peace or would i have to go to a technician or get a compatible cpu or get on amd’s boot kit program

 

If you CAN make it into the BIOS, then you should be able to update it.

If it won't get into the BIOS at all, then you'll for sure need to get a hold of the AMD kit.

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