New Motherboard, New CPU will I live...

Tishii · 11 Jul 2019 at 13:55

Good afternoon all,

Just a quick technical question, I have bought both a new Motherboard (B450M Mortar Titanium) and CPU (Ryzen 7 3700X). Having no previous AMD processors, is it possible to update the BIOS with only a USB pen drive with the relevant BIOS or will I need an old processor first and foremost to boot etc?

Kind regards,

Tishii

Darren_uk · 11 Jul 2019 at 14:23

1 min I check that board

Ollie_B_2000 · 11 Jul 2019 at 14:24

https://premiumbuilds.com/motherboards/list-of-motherboards-with-usb-bios-flashback/

Seems to be listed as supporting USB Flashback so no need for an old processor

Darren_uk · 11 Jul 2019 at 14:24

Your good to go

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B450M-MORTAR-TITANIUM
As the bios flash button on rear I/O
Flash BIOS Button: Simply use a USB key to flash any BIOS within seconds, without installing a CPU, memory or graphics card

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B450M-MORTAR-TITANIUM

Tishii · 11 Jul 2019 at 14:30

Thank god, thanks for your swift responses.

Darren_uk · 11 Jul 2019 at 14:38

Make sure you unzip bios to the USB flash drive, make sure flash drive format in fat 32 OR NTFS
you don't need to power on the system, just make sure you connected the 24 pin & 8 pin to motherboard

Jamin280672 · 11 Jul 2019 at 17:22

As per @Darren_uk instructions, however, one other thing, you must rename the bios file that you put onto the root of your USB stick to "MSI.ROM" without the quotes.

It it fails to flash, format your USB stick to NTFS and then try again.............long story: See post 140 and 142, https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=320889.100 post 100 is full instructions on how to use bios flashback, also includes a video.

MegaPinches · 11 Jul 2019 at 19:38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTkXunUAriE

Darren_uk · 11 Jul 2019 at 20:10

that's the ticket