A friend has recently bought a ryzen 2600, and a b350m mortar, and 16gb of RAM ddr4 of kingston.
We had read that you can use the cpu withouth updating the bios of the motherboard, and I have seen people doing an unboxing+assembling working with the 2600.
Today we built the computer and it had power, leds were turned on but it didn't post anything to the screen. After that, I read that it was necessary to update the bios using an older ryzen(1st gen), but I insist that some people said that it wasn't necessary to update the bios to use the cpu, and my friend wants to charge me the bios update.
Also I think that his MoBo was broken, because some leds weren't turned on from a point of a pcie port to an upper part.
The questions are:
1) Am I right that the ryzen can run withouth updating the BIOS?
2) If he returns the MoBo , is it suposed to be guaranted so the retailer updates the BIOS for free(or should do)?
Thanks in advance and sorry for my English, I'm Spanish.
We had read that you can use the cpu withouth updating the bios of the motherboard, and I have seen people doing an unboxing+assembling working with the 2600.
Today we built the computer and it had power, leds were turned on but it didn't post anything to the screen. After that, I read that it was necessary to update the bios using an older ryzen(1st gen), but I insist that some people said that it wasn't necessary to update the bios to use the cpu, and my friend wants to charge me the bios update.
Also I think that his MoBo was broken, because some leds weren't turned on from a point of a pcie port to an upper part.
The questions are:
1) Am I right that the ryzen can run withouth updating the BIOS?
2) If he returns the MoBo , is it suposed to be guaranted so the retailer updates the BIOS for free(or should do)?
Thanks in advance and sorry for my English, I'm Spanish.