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Markc0 said:
New to these forums. Just tried joining MSI forums, but they won't even activate my new proifle, checked spam as well.
I downloaded the latest BIOS, for Tomahawk b450 from their website, stuck it on a 32GB USB drive which was formatted as Fat32.
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B450-TOMAHAWK

I went to BIOS and tried M-Flash, which would not recognise the update(I tried all ports inc the top right), it saw the drive, but not the update which i copy and pasted to the root of the USB stick.

Just a few Q's

1. Do you install updates like this before or adding a new CPU? (It currently holds a 1600x, and my 3700x arrives tommorow.)
2. CAN YOU HELP ME PLEASE.

Just updated the AMD chip drivers as well, which were released on the 7th as well.
My BIOS version atm is 1.2 - do i need to update the BIOS bit by bit to the latest version?
I did read that my USB stick might be too big, at 32GB its a Kingston Data Traveler USB 3.0
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It will work if you format the USB to NTFS :)

Ive read up on it due to me flashing my own mobo when my 3900x arrives.
 
twistedheat said:
I've also read that 16gb is the highest USB size for flashing BIOS, but I'm not sure why.

I also remember that one of the steps was to rename the BIOS to MSI.ROM but I'm not sure if that applies in this case.

Also, could be that you have to update the BIOS to an intermediary BIOS first, before updating to the latest.
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There was that earlier update earlier in the year - 7C02v17
"Description
- Support new upcoming AMD cpu.
"

I just thought that would be for the APUs
 
Markc0 said:
New to these forums. Just tried joining MSI forums, but they won't even activate my new proifle, checked spam as well.
I downloaded the latest BIOS, for Tomahawk b450 from their website, stuck it on a 32GB USB drive which was formatted as Fat32.
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B450-TOMAHAWK

I went to BIOS and tried M-Flash, which would not recognise the update(I tried all ports inc the top right), it saw the drive, but not the update which i copy and pasted to the root of the USB stick.

Just a few Q's

1. Do you install updates like this before or adding a new CPU? (It currently holds a 1600x, and my 3700x arrives tommorow.)
2. CAN YOU HELP ME PLEASE.

Just updated the AMD chip drivers as well, which were released on the 7th as well.
My BIOS version atm is 1.2 - do i need to update the BIOS bit by bit to the latest version?
I did read that my USB stick might be too big, at 32GB its a Kingston Data Traveler USB 3.0
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Did you follow the procedure shown in the youtube video on that support page you linked?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRyFMf0D9Lc
 
From Reddit about the concerns that the PBO not boosting properly

AMD_Robert
I'm not sure what you're asking. Our boost formula is opportunistic based on VRM current, socket power, temperatures. Therefore: light workloads will have a higher boost, and heavier workloads will have a lower boost. This is the basic behavior of Precision Boost 2 we described in November 2017. This is the same boost formula used for all Ryzen 2000 Series CPUs as well: 4.3GHz peak for light threading, to around 4GHz for all-cores. No change year-over-year in how the boost behaves.

If you're asking whether or not all cores will hit the max boost clock: no. It will not do that, nor have we ever promised or implied that. We've been very clear for 1.5 years that the Precision Boost 2 behavior is a "curve" that tries to get the loaded cores to the highest possible frequency with respect to the aforementioned limits. Even with all cores loaded, the CPU can maintain frequencies that are hundreds of MHz higher than base.

The other goal of our engineering effort is to absolutely maximize the performance of the product out of the box. //EDIT: By designing algorithms that extract the maximum silicon performance automatically (e.g. Precision Boost 2) without asking the user to tinker or risk their warranty. So, no, you're not going to see a whole lot of manual OC headroom. That's just performance an average person--who doesn't know how to OC--can't access. Why would we do that? It is not our intent to leave anything on the table.

It's more beneficial to enable PBO, overclock the fabric, overclock the memory. But that's true of Ryzen 2000 Series, too.
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So it sounds like its not a bios problem, but working as intended :rolleyes:
 
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Back, still no luck.
It loads up M-Flash
It shows my drive date and time
system volume information(which i click and there is two dots.)

I tried to rename it as well before formatting, but it said it can't use those chars, how do i change its name?
 
Markc0 said:
Back, still no luck.
It loads up M-Flash
It shows my drive date and time
system volume information(which i click and there is two dots.)

I tried to rename it as well before formatting, but it said it can't use those chars, how do i change its name?
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Have you tried a different pen drive yet? - smaller capacity preferably.
 
Markc0 said:
Back, still no luck.
It loads up M-Flash
It shows my drive date and time
system volume information(which i click and there is two dots.)

I tried to rename it as well before formatting, but it said it can't use those chars, how do i change its name?
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Right click on it, then rename.

Those two dots...were they at the bottom of the screen?
Also, check the flash button to see if it flashes red.
 
Markc0 said:
Back, still no luck.
It loads up M-Flash
It shows my drive date and time
system volume information(which i click and there is two dots.)

I tried to rename it as well before formatting, but it said it can't use those chars, how do i change its name?
Click to expand...

I haven't read your past posts but have you wiped the drive using the command prompt in windows?
 
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