Motherboard says unrecognized cpu - does it matter?

[DarkTygur]

Hopefully a simple question - does it matter if the motherboard says it doesn't know what type of cpu is present (when it boots up and attempts to give the name of the cpu, among other things)? Would/could a bios update (if one is even available) change anything meaningful? Or is the motherboard perfectly capable of handling things anyway?

In case it matters, the motherboard is an ECS AMD690GM-M2, and the processor is an Athlon X2 4050e. Newegg says the processor is new, so it's no surprise to me that the Motherboard doesn't know what to tell me. I'm just making sure it doesn't actually matter. If it doesn't, then I don't care what it says on boot-up.

 

[roadrunner197069]

If it dont know what it is it prolly wont no how fast to run. Try a bios update. You might need a new mobo.

 

[Mondoman]

It might work fine, it might not. If the BIOS doesn't recognize it, it should still be able to run it at the correct speed (assuming the MB can handle that speed), but it won't have the appropriate microcode updates if any are needed for that CPU.

 

[bobbknight]

Bios update will fix it.

 

[SpinachEater]

^ +1 on the condition that there is an update that supports that CPU