OK, so I probably should have done more than a day's research into what I was buying, but hey ho I think I've screwed up.
So I've bought an AMD Ryzen 3 3200G CPU, and an ASUS Prime A320M-K motherboard, which due to the labelling I had presumed was compatible with what is labelled as a "2nd generation" AMD CPU, but now which looks like it's actually a 3rd generation.
The system will power on, but wont boot attempt or even post. It appears as though the BIOS will support this CPU but only after an update, but there's no way to update the BIOS without a compatible CPU, which I don't have.
Any bright ideas? I'm aware AMD does a 'ship me a low spec CPU' option, which I may have to fall back on, but if anyone has any other suggestions I'm all ears!
So I've bought an AMD Ryzen 3 3200G CPU, and an ASUS Prime A320M-K motherboard, which due to the labelling I had presumed was compatible with what is labelled as a "2nd generation" AMD CPU, but now which looks like it's actually a 3rd generation.
The system will power on, but wont boot attempt or even post. It appears as though the BIOS will support this CPU but only after an update, but there's no way to update the BIOS without a compatible CPU, which I don't have.
Any bright ideas? I'm aware AMD does a 'ship me a low spec CPU' option, which I may have to fall back on, but if anyone has any other suggestions I'm all ears!