ASRock AB350 Gaming K4 Fatal1ty BIOS 4.6 problem

[davidmrowlands]

Hi all! I've had the AB350 Gaming K4 ATX motherboard for a few months now, running a R5 1500X. It came with BIOS 2.40 already on the board. Over the last couple of days I updated the BIOS. I went from BIOS 2.40 to BIOS 3.00, and then from BIOS 3.00 to BIOS 3.30. I did it this way as there were notes on the Support->BIOS page mentioning upgrading to certain BIOS revisions before others. The flashing went without a hitch using the motherboard's built in flashing utility both times. However, I've gone back into the motherboard's product page today and found that all but BIOS 4.60 have been removed. I've grabbed 4.60, intending to update to 4.60, however whenever I launch the instant flash utility it tells me the image file cannot be found. I've tried a couple of different USB sticks, formatted to FAT32, and had no joy with either of them. All the image files were on the website yesterday, does anyone know why all the old image files might have been removed from the website? Is the 'image file cannot be found' a fault due to something I'm doing, or is it possible something has gotten messed up on the website? I can live without updating the BIOS beyond 3.30 of course, but it would be nice to have everything as up to date as possible!

 

[rocktalkrock]

From the Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming K4 "Support > FAQ" page.

Q: If I change the setting in BIOS of AM4 series motherboards, is there any notice before updating BIOS? (2017/3/1)
- If you change any setting in BIOS and want to update the BIOS, please enter BIOS setup to load default setting. After reboot, please update the BIOS.

https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/Fatal1ty%20AB350%20Gaming%20K4/index.asp#FAQ

 

[davidmrowlands]

Hi! Thanks for the reply rocktalkrock! I was just coming back to post a response here. Have sorted the problem out. I needed to update to a revision p3.40 of the bios from p3.30 before I could update to p4.60. Unfortunately with ASRock removing all previous bios updates, leaving only 4.60 visible, there was no mention of it and no way to actually be able to do it. Thankfully I managed to find this out on the ASRock forums, and find the necessary bios files for the upgrade path as well due to some very helpful users. Thank you very much for taking the time to respond and try to help though, I really do appreciate it.

 

[Mytrenet]

Hey, I just checked the asrock webpage. https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/Fatal1ty%20AB350%20Gaming%20K4/index.asp#BIOS it has all the bios you need, even p3.40.