How to know if my motherboard is 6th gen or 7th gen without using processor?

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Etcetra

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I purchased Gigabyte H110M-S2 which had a manufacturing date of March 2017. I couldn't buy Intel G4560 the same day as it was out of stock.

The motherboard box says it supports 6th gen CPU. I showed this to the seller and he said to not worry as he is pretty certain that the MB comes with the BIOS update for 7th gen CPU.

I'm now about to go buy G4560 today but before that I want to confirm if my BIOS is indeed updated. I don't have any processor with me to help the boot process.

Is there a way I can figure this out then?
 
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Yeah, unfortunately there's really no way of knowing this until you get your hands on the CPU (and find out if it [strike]boots[/strike] will POST or not). Ideally you'd get a B250 board which would work out of the box.

If the seller is so confident, will he provide any guarantee? Can you ask him to put it in writing that he'll update the BIOS for you or provide a full refund if it doesn't boot? That's the only way I'd be accepting a 6 series board for a 7 series CPU myself.
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Yeah, unfortunately there's really no way of knowing this until you get your hands on the CPU (and find out if it [strike]boots[/strike] will POST or not). Ideally you'd get a B250 board which would work out of the box.

If the seller is so confident, will he provide any guarantee? Can you ask him to put it in writing that he'll update the BIOS for you or provide a full refund if it doesn't boot? That's the only way I'd be accepting a 6 series board for a 7 series CPU myself.
 
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I went ahead and bought the CPU. It booted fine. I did all installation in front of the seller to make sure everything worked as expected. So the MB was indeed updated with the latest F20 Bios
 
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The motherboard revision number does not tell you which BIOS version it has - - they are two different things.

 
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