Question Best way to determine if you can upgrade motherboard bios. ASRock ab350m and Ryzen 3700x

[Dougyyyyy]

I have been trying to figure out if I can or should get some new bios to gain a few features. I have an ASRock ab350m and a Ryzen 3700x. It started with 6.4 on the ASRock website it only lists 5.8 but obviously that is not the latest one that works. I know it can be a tricky procedure so I dont want to botch everything up. Best I can tell the newer ASRock bios seemingly seems like it should work. Best way to determine if will or wont?

Thanks

 

[punkncat]

Not sure what you were looking at:

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/AB350M/index.asp#BIOS

Read the release notes carefully.

 

[Lutfij]

Is this the motherboard you're working with? You need to be careful since not all BIOSes are meant for the same chipsetted board and I see a lot more ASRock boards with an AB350M in it's title. You might want to list the specs to your system like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.
and perhaps help us understand if your BIOS update or the need for it is warranted.

 

[Zerk2012]

I have been trying to figure out if I can or should get some new bios to gain a few features. I have an ASRock ab350m and a Ryzen 3700x. It started with 6.4 on the ASRock website it only lists 5.8 but obviously that is not the latest one that works. I know it can be a tricky procedure so I dont want to botch everything up. Best I can tell the newer ASRock bios seemingly seems like it should work. Best way to determine if will or wont?

Thanks

If your not having problems with what you have there no reason to risk a update.

 

[Dougyyyyy]

Is this the motherboard you're working with? You need to be careful since not all BIOSes are meant for the same chipsetted board and I see a lot more ASRock boards with an AB350M in it's title. You might want to list the specs to your system like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.
and perhaps help us understand if your BIOS update or the need for it is warranted.

Well I definitely didn't realize there are that many AB350s. Not sure now why I thought it was an M but it apparently isn't.
Ryzen 3700x
Wraith Prism
ASRock AB350 Pro 4 (6.4 bios)
G. Skill Trident Z RGB 3200 64gb (16gbx4)
Aorus 3080 Master 10gb Rev 2.0 (565.90 driver)
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2tb M.2
Crucial 1tb P2 M.2
Samsung 870 QVO 4tb SSD
Seagate Baracuda 8tb HDD (ST8000DM004)
Corsair RM850 PSU 1.5 years old
NZXT H510 Mid Tower ATX
Corsair Commander Core (2 Corsair QL140mm, 2 Corsair SP120mm)
"Monitors" 2 75" Samsung Q90A 120hz QLED Neo
Windows 11 24H2 26100.1882

My main reason for looking to update was because apparently the newer BIOs have an option to delay the startup of some drives to save a bunch of boot time. Bugs the hell out of me that I'm wasting 30 seconds on boot. I don't like using Fast boot.

I think that covers it. I was going to insert some pictures from CPUID but unless im missing something this forum only lets you add links and not simply add pictures to a post which is the weirdest thing I have encountered in a long time and makes this one of the most useless forum systems in existence. Regardless I appreciate your help.

 

[geofelt]

A reason for being able to stagger HDD start up times was to reduce the power draw with many hard drives starting at the same time.
Not a problem with a single drive.
Look at task manager cpu and select the startup display.
In the upper right you will see the bios start up time.
Mine says 12.8 seconds which I think is typical.

Is there a reason not to like fast boot?

Why do you boot at all?
Use sleep to ram/no hibernate.
That puts the cpu and monitor into a very low power state similar to a full power off.
sleep/wake becomes a handful of seconds.

 

[Zerk2012]

My main reason for looking to update was because apparently the newer BIOs have an option to delay the startup of some drives to save a bunch of boot time. Bugs the hell out of me that I'm wasting 30 seconds on boot

Oh my 30 sec?
Unplug both your other drives and see how much time you save!

 

[Dougyyyyy]

A reason for being able to stagger HDD start up times was to reduce the power draw with many hard drives starting at the same time.
Not a problem with a single drive.
Look at task manager cpu and select the startup display.
In the upper right you will see the bios start up time.
Mine says 12.8 seconds which I think is typical.

Is there a reason not to like fast boot?

Why do you boot at all?
Use sleep to ram/no hibernate.
That puts the cpu and monitor into a very low power state similar to a full power off.
sleep/wake becomes a handful of seconds. As for sleep, I use it sometimes. but there is no way you should use it all the time. No thank you. Never rebooting your machine a horrible idea you should not be promoting my man.

Well I have 4 drives not one. Fast Boot just always seems to create problems and gets corrupted. my task manager says 55.2 which i cant comprehend

 

[Dougyyyyy]

Oh my 30 sec?
Unplug both your other drives and see how much time you save!

Cant quite tell if that is serious or trolling but yes as I stated when they don't get in the way at start up I save 30 seconds. Just the way I do on my work pc but I dont have that ability now, unless im missing something. Also, it is hardly practical to hot plug your drives all the time when you boot so thats a terrible suggestion