bios update

Hi! I have an ASUS Z170-a motherboard that I want to update the BIOS of. However, I don't have an OS installed and therefore want to update the BIOS from a Linux Boot Stick (I have one already). I found this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Flashing_BIOS_from_Linux#ASUS, but I couldn't follow...

The system (as built by the vendor, about 1.5 years ago): Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero BIOS: one of the early versions, which only allowed 64 GB of RAM (as far as I can tell) GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti CPU: 13 Gen Intel i9-13900K, running with ASUS AI overclocking at 5.8 GHz...

Hey guys just wanted to ask for help because I recently upgraded to a ryzen 5 5600 from a ryzen 5 3600 the motherboard is an MSI b450m mortar max, I knew it wasn’t compatible out of the box so I updated the BIOS in advanced which was probably closer to a year now because I was anticipating an...

Motherboard: Gigabyte X470 AORUS Ultra Gaming I wanted to update my current bios (F3) to the most recent one (F65), but when updating it didn't work. I then looked up and found that I needed to update to F31 before doing so. Afterwards, I use the Q-Flash utility in the BIOS to do so and then...

Hey all! So a few months ago my PC started stuttering/hitching seemingly out of nowhere. I tried everything I could find online but nothing fixed it. I have switched every component in my PC excluding an SSD. I also changed my motherboard which seemed to fix the issue. Later it started...

Motherboard: ASRock B550M-C I am very new to this and I need help updating my BIOS which is like a year old. I don’t know what usb spot to plug it in to for updating it.

Hello, my computer specs are: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800x3D - with Lian Li Galahad SL 360 AIO cooling it MB: Asus ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming WIFI RAM: GSkill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32GB DDR5 6000MHz GPU: Gigabyte Aero Nvidia 4070Ti PSU: Seasonic Focus GX, 80+ Gold, 850W SSD: Samsung 980 Pro 1TB OS...

I was an RX580 user and upgraded to GEFORCE RTX 4060, but I didn't get any display on my screen. So, based on a previous experience, I reinstalled the RX580 and decided to update the motherboard's BIOS. I downloaded the BIOS from msi website and successfully installed the update from within the...

I have an old H61 motherboard IPMSB-H61 manufactured by Pegatron. Currently it has Pentium G630 2nd generation processor. When I installed a 3rd gen i5-3570 it's doesn't boot and gives 4 beeps. It has AMI bios version 0211J. Can this processor support 3rd gen Intel processor by bios update or...

I've had this on the back burner for a year or two but a BIOS / Windows update removed my touchscreen, System is a Flex 5-14ARE05 Laptop (ideapad) - Type 81X2. This has happened more than once on my multiple Lenovo laptops and years ago I was able to restore it but not this time. I have done...

A month ago I moved my 2021 computer’s hardware to a slightly bigger case, and afterwords found out I needed to update my bios to a newer release version on my motherboard (z690 Pro A Wifi DDR5) in order for it to support the 13th gen intel processor I had just bought. I checked and the bios...

Hello everyone, I have recently built a PC from sepatately bought components, and installed Windows 11. It functioned flawlessly for some time, but after a power outage I booted it up and it was very slow, mouse movement was extremelly laggy and jaggy. This was nonetheless fully resolved by...

Hi guys, I'm horrible with this technical stuff. My prebuilt pc came with a Ryzen 3 3100 cpu and a faulty ai cooling system. I bought a Ryzen 5 5600 (regular version) to replace them, I'm using the stock cooling system it came with. And I'm wondering if its okay to update to 2.71. This is...

I bought a used RTX 3060 Ti a few weeks ago. I've been running it fine for a few weeks until about a week ago when it died on me. Windows throws a Code 43 error which would indicate a driver issue. However I've uninstalled the drivers with DDU and reinstalled multiple iterations of stable...

I recently bought a msi b550m pro-vdh that ill pair up with the ryzen 5 5600x. Tho knowing some of those mother boards comes with older bios versions that wont work for 5000gen cpus. Im all ready to update the bios, with the motherboards convenient flash update. Tho knowing only some...

Hello, I've recently moved to i9 13900k platform with the follow components: i9 13900k MAG Z790 TOMAHAWK WIFI DDR4 F4-3200C16-16GTRS x 4 dimms Gigabyte rtx2070 super When I got into bios to enable XMP the system restarted and locked without sending any signal but the memory fail led was on...

hello, i am trying to get ready to upgrade my pc from a Ryzen 7 3800x 3.90GHz to a Ryzen 7 5800x3d. my motherboard is an MPG x570 Gaming Plus MSI motherboard. My first step was trying to get a bios update just in case it was needed and i downloaded the latest version. i went into the bios but i...

I have got a deal for a Ryzen 5 5600, and I want to swap my 2600 on my Asrock ab350m pro4 MB. However, I cannot find any info on how should I do the BIOS upgrade. My current version is 5.10 and from what I see before I upgrade to 7.40 I need to install the 7.00 bridge BIOS. And there is my...

Hello community. I have the Gigabyte Aorus B450 Elite v1, and recently upgraded from a Ryzen 5 2600 to a Ryzen 5 5500 and currently bought 32gb of RAM at the 3600. The thing is that when I activate the XPM in the bios so that the RAM goes from 2600 to 3600 when the BIOS is reset it does its...

Hello, I'm planning to buy a B550M PRO4 motherboard + Ryzen 5600, do I need a bios update or are the chances that I might get this type of motherboard with an older bios really low in 2023? Need to mention that I don't have an older Ryzen cpu to update the bios. Has anyone encountered problems...

I just bought a GTX 1650 for my PC, I unplugged the old one and plugged in the new one, I boot up the computer and it just stays on the HP booting screen, and then every 20 seconds or so the computer beeps once. Once it beeps two times the screen cuts to black, beeps, then cuts back to the HP...

Hello, have a question i bought a new processor (ryzen 5 5500) and i have B450M PRO-VDH MAX, so i downloaded to the last bios version (7A38vBG) and updated but the pc wont boot, what can i do now? should a updated for the ryzen 5 5500 bios version(7A38vBE)? or its not a bios problem? specs...

I have a MSI Meg z690i Unify motherboard and the CPU light is on after booting and not POSTing. I am using an i5-13600k which I believe is the problem because the motherboard needs to have the BIOS updated. Is there any way to update the BIOS without a BIOS flashback button or a supported CPU...

This morning I turn on the PC, part of the BIOS update but, does not end The PC darkens and seems to want to turn off but ... It doesn't My HP with Windows 10 does not receive any input. The screen is off, the fan is spinning very hard, the power off button does not work, the key combinations...

So my friend is trying to update his motherboards bios since we believe that could be a cause to some of his pc problems. When looking for this specific motherboard we only find the Z390 GAMING X (rev. 1.0) or Z390 GAMING X (rev. 1.1). We cant find the x-cf version of the motherboard and are...

Hello all, Simple question, should I or do I need to turn off Secure Boot/TPM in my BIOS, before updating the BIOS? I am planning on performing the update in the near future and when I went in to look at the process, a warning message came up stating that it is recommended all security features...

Hello, I have a Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite rev 1.0 motherboard and a Gigabyte 3060 ti Gaming OC Pro 8GB graphic card in my rig. The problem is there is a led light on my motherboard with the label VGA which sometimes lights up red on startup and stays that way until I turn the PC off but...

So I have ASUS ROG Strix B360-F Gaming RX 480 MSI GPU Intel core i5 8500 8gb of ram So I updated my BIOS because it's been out of date since 2018, while updating my BIOS to like 80%, it suddenly shut down and restart the PC, and no display. I tried several solutions from websites like removing...

I get blue screen if I update to a newer BIOS version. The only BIOS that is working with XMP enabled is F13. If I update the BIOS to F14, F15a or F15c and activate the XMP profile, I get bluescreen almost every time when windows starts. If I deactivate XMP, Windows is working properly. Error...

Hi everyone My friend had a wierd issue, where after moving to a new SSD + fresh Windows install, he always needed to select the new SSD (M.2 NVME) in the bios selection menu. Even after formatting the old ssd, it would still show up as a boot drive (Probably because we haven't removed all...

I updated my bios and now my 16GB of RAM is being halved and put into hardware reserved, I'm not sure what to do and I've tried multiple things and I just can't figure out why it's happening. I'm convinced it's a BIOS setting but I don't know which one. My motherboard is a Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3.

So i bought rust and it said i needed atleast 10gb of ram. I have 16gb so i thought it was wierd. I looked in task manager and it said 16gb but it also said that 8,1gb was "hardware reserved". So i looked up fixes for it and tried all and none worked. I tried removing and putting back the ram...

I just bought an AMD Ryzen 7 5800x yesterday. I'm planning to buy an ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi) I wonder if this CPU + MOBO will work before Updating the bios from ASUS Website. BTW I don't have a Zen 2 CPU.

Motherboard: 
ASUS PRIME B450M-A GPU: 
ASUS DUAL-RX580-O4G

 CPU:
 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (3.6GHz,65W,L3:32M,6C,B0) 

RAM: 
GoodRAM GX2400 DDR4 8GB DIMM


 My PC came prebuilt from a vendor when I bought it 2-3 years ago. When it arrived it had BIOS version 1823 on it. 2 days ago I wanted to finally...

I am trying to update my ASROCK B450M-Pro4 mobo to 5.30, it is currently on 3.90, I extracted the BIOS SW and put it on a USB 2.0 drive formatted to FAT32 and connected it to a USB2.0 port on the mobo. However, when I try and use the Instant Flash I get the "no image file detected" error, I have...

Hello guys, I have kind of weird problem in my laptop bios. My laptop is MSI ge63 raider 9se rtx. so, after buying my laptop I realized that my CPU already overclocked and the temperature over 94c all the time while playing games. so, I decided to turned hyper threading off from the bios to stop...

Hello , I'm currently using motherborad Z390M -CF(according to CPU-Z) , I'm trying to update my bios from F5 to F9 but no luck , everything i try it gives me an error saying " bios id check error " . Was looking for guides on the internet and didnt find anything that helped. Would be glad to...

Hi, So I have an h310m pro vdh paired with an i3 9100f, on the box it says that the mobo only supports 8th gen CPUs but on part picker it doesn't show any compatibility issues, I checked the website and it now supports 8th and 9th gen CPUs but I guess I have to update the bios first, however I...

I currently cant find my exact board on asrock manufacturing website. i have a ASRock B550AM Gaming board. Found this link that has my exact board AsRock B550AM Motherboard Couldnt get my xmp profile to work my friend suggested to maybe update the bios which sent me into this rabbit hole. I'm...

I have a MSI b350 tomahawk with a Ryzen 3 1200. I want to upgrade the cpu to Ryzen 7 3700x. I understand that I need to update my BIOS for my new cpu, but have no idea which BIOS update to choose. I've tried doing my own research, but I can't find the correct information, since this is all new...