AM4 Motherboard which Ship with Ryzen 5 Support

[Znarb93]

Hi,

Just purchased the Ryzen 5 1600 and bought the Gigabyte AB350 Gaming motherboard to go with it. However, the motherboard shipped with the original BIOS and I have no way of updating it to the latest to get it to post with my CPU. I contacted Gigabyte and they said I have to use a Ryzen 7 to update the BIOS or send it to them to update, or send it back to the retailer for a refund. I decided on the latter. However, I can't seem to find a board on the market which ships with Ryzen 5 BIOS support. Am I the only one having this issue, or am I missing something?

Thanks

 

[towermac]

While it may be easy to blame AMD, these sorts of issues have always been present when building computers. Everybody and their uncle may be slapping together pieces and building computers now, but that doesn't forgo the initial homework needed in deciding which pieces to use.

Perhaps there is an electronics store or computer repair shop that happens to have a Ryzen 7 CPU that could flash an updated BIOS onto your board for you, for a small price? I would find that a lot more convenient than shipping the board back.

I agree. It's mostly my fault for not looking into the CPU support list properly before buying the board. Luckily I've managed to find a board which supports Ryzen 5 with the BIOS it ships with - the Asus PRIME B350-PLUS. On their website it says Ryzen 1600 is supported form BIOS revision 0406 which is the one it hips with. Hoping this will solve my problem.

I bought the PRIME B350-PLUS and PRIME B350A/CSM before finding out about this issue. Neither worked for me. Did your PRIME B350-PLUS work?

I actually ended up getting the MSI Tomahawk B350 because MSI confirmed that it supports R5 1600 from stock BIOS. However, I still couldn't get a boot so I presumed my Cpu was faulty. I ordered a replacement which should arrive today. MSI gave me some troubleshooting points to consider too so I'll give it a go once I receive the replacement cpu. According to all the documentation and support lists it should work fine but we'll see.

I got a B350 MSI Mortar under a 1600, and it took forever to get a post. With one stick of ram in the A1 slot I was finally able to flash the bios. And it still hates this corsair vengeance 3200 ram, which i can only get to 2933. I got an overclock of 3.7 - I got it to 3.8 but too hot on the stock cooler.

I was about to send it back a couple of times, and maybe I just got lucky. But I plugged and unplugged all the ram in each slot like a retard - cleared cmos a couple of times, and finally got a boot.

 

[Seanie280672]

While it may be easy to blame AMD, these sorts of issues have always been present when building computers. Everybody and their uncle may be slapping together pieces and building computers now, but that doesn't forgo the initial homework needed in deciding which pieces to use.

Perhaps there is an electronics store or computer repair shop that happens to have a Ryzen 7 CPU that could flash an updated BIOS onto your board for you, for a small price? I would find that a lot more convenient than shipping the board back.

I agree. It's mostly my fault for not looking into the CPU support list properly before buying the board. Luckily I've managed to find a board which supports Ryzen 5 with the BIOS it ships with - the Asus PRIME B350-PLUS. On their website it says Ryzen 1600 is supported form BIOS revision 0406 which is the one it hips with. Hoping this will solve my problem.

I bought the PRIME B350-PLUS and PRIME B350A/CSM before finding out about this issue. Neither worked for me. Did your PRIME B350-PLUS work?

I actually ended up getting the MSI Tomahawk B350 because MSI confirmed that it supports R5 1600 from stock BIOS. However, I still couldn't get a boot so I presumed my Cpu was faulty. I ordered a replacement which should arrive today. MSI gave me some troubleshooting points to consider too so I'll give it a go once I receive the replacement cpu. According to all the documentation and support lists it should work fine but we'll see.

I got a B350 MSI Mortar under a 1600, and it took forever to get a post. With one stick of ram in the A1 slot I was finally able to flash the bios. And it still hates this corsair vengeance 3200 ram, which i can only get to 2933. I got an overclock of 3.7 - I got it to 3.8 but too hot on the stock cooler.

I was about to send it back a couple of times, and maybe I just got lucky. But I plugged and unplugged all the ram in each slot like a retard - cleared cmos a couple of times, and finally got a boot.

The slots to use are A2 and B2 if only using 1 or 2 sticks of ram, this might be why you are getting slow boots, its in the manual.

 

[Znarb93]

While it may be easy to blame AMD, these sorts of issues have always been present when building computers. Everybody and their uncle may be slapping together pieces and building computers now, but that doesn't forgo the initial homework needed in deciding which pieces to use.

Perhaps there is an electronics store or computer repair shop that happens to have a Ryzen 7 CPU that could flash an updated BIOS onto your board for you, for a small price? I would find that a lot more convenient than shipping the board back.

I agree. It's mostly my fault for not looking into the CPU support list properly before buying the board. Luckily I've managed to find a board which supports Ryzen 5 with the BIOS it ships with - the Asus PRIME B350-PLUS. On their website it says Ryzen 1600 is supported form BIOS revision 0406 which is the one it hips with. Hoping this will solve my problem.

I bought the PRIME B350-PLUS and PRIME B350A/CSM before finding out about this issue. Neither worked for me. Did your PRIME B350-PLUS work?

I actually ended up getting the MSI Tomahawk B350 because MSI confirmed that it supports R5 1600 from stock BIOS. However, I still couldn't get a boot so I presumed my Cpu was faulty. I ordered a replacement which should arrive today. MSI gave me some troubleshooting points to consider too so I'll give it a go once I receive the replacement cpu. According to all the documentation and support lists it should work fine but we'll see.

I got a B350 MSI Mortar under a 1600, and it took forever to get a post. With one stick of ram in the A1 slot I was finally able to flash the bios. And it still hates this corsair vengeance 3200 ram, which i can only get to 2933. I got an overclock of 3.7 - I got it to 3.8 but too hot on the stock cooler.

I was about to send it back a couple of times, and maybe I just got lucky. But I plugged and unplugged all the ram in each slot like a retard - cleared cmos a couple of times, and finally got a boot.

Yeah I heard they can take ages to boot that's why I tried to be as patient as possible with my B350 Tomahawk and I also tried that method with swapping the RAM into all the different DIMM slots but still no boot. I think I just need to use a R7 to update the BIOS.