Kaveri Motherboards Bios

[immortalkoil]

As far as I have read all the Kavari boards avaliable to us need a bios update to support Kaveri. How can I do this if the only chip I have is my Kaveri chip?

 

[clutchc]

Where did you read that? I would expect any FM2+ MB designed for the next gen Kaveri APUs to be BIOS ready.

 

[immortalkoil]

Where did you read that? I would expect any FM2+ MB designed for the next gen Kaveri APUs to be BIOS ready.

I have read it on the motherboard manufactures website. I guess I'm just confused as to if I can apply the bios update with my kaveri chip or will the system not even start up with an unsupported chip.

 

[clutchc]

Can you link me to the MB's website?

 

[mikedep333]

Here's an example of a several-month-old board that needs a bios update, but the bios update (version 1003) wasn't posted until 2014-01-03:
Asus A88XM-A
http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/list.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=1&s=43&m=A88XM-A&os=&hashedid=zDRJFj2HfjDphY4C
In fact, I went to my local MicroCenter. The were about 12 of the boards in stock & boxes literally said "FM2+ Ready" "BIOS/Driver Updated Required" in the top right. I was hoping to find some indication on the box or board (MicroCenter lets you open the box & view the board) that the board did have BIOS 1003, but there was no indication. So I assumed that the boards left the factory more than 2 weeks ago and thus I did not buy the board or the Kaveri CPU.

 

[mikedep333]

Also, there is one board that was introduced around the same time as the A10-7850K & A10-7700K Kaveris and thus its initial bios does support them:
ASRock Fatal1ty FM2A88X+ Killer
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty%20FM2A88X+%20Killer/?cat=Download&os=BIOS
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty%20FM2A88X+%20Killer/?cat=CPU