Motherboard BIOS Help

marcovstaden6 · Nov 28, 2018

Hi, I got an Gigabyte A320M-S2H motherboard and i want to buy a Ryzen 5 1600x and want to know if it will support the cpu out of the box or do i need a BIOS update?

terry4536 · Nov 28, 2018

The problem in early 2018 was for second generation Ryzen processors. The 2000 series Processors were incompatible with the motherboard BIOS that it was shipped with.

So with your first generation R5-1600x, you were never at risk. But you will need to update the BIOS. There have been a very many BIOS updates since your processor was released.

At this point, all Ryzen motherboards should be updated on install and periodically afterwards. This is to improve stability and fix problems.

marcovstaden6 · Nov 28, 2018

So do i need to update the bios beacuase on the box rev.1.1 (srry i am not a pc pro)

terry4536 · Nov 28, 2018

marcovstaden6 :

You are not subject to the problem of an incompatible BIOS on the motherboard out of the box.

The 2000 series Ryzen processors would not boot with the shipped motherboard BIOS (around February 2018). They required an "AMD boot kit" to enable the motherboard for use. That was basically a first generation Ryzen (like yours) that was installed on the motherboard . Then the motherboard BIOS was updated. Then the boot kit CPU was removed and the new processor installed.

But you do need to update the BIOS to fix ongoing problems with Ryzen processors in general.

terry4536 · Nov 28, 2018

Here is the official AMD release on this problem. The R5-1600x was not involved.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-100

marcovstaden6 · Nov 28, 2018

Thank you!!

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