Upgrading a Motherboard's BIOS/UEFI (the Hard Way)
owl writes:
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2021/12/upgrading-a-motherboards-bios-uefi-the-hard-way/
A couple of weeks ago I found a really good deal on a Socket AM4 motherboard that supports the newest AMD Ryzen CPUs. The motherboard is an ASRock A520M/ac. It's a very basic motherboard which doesn't appear to be sold by any of the usual retailers anymore, but I couldn't pass up on the deal, especially with the potential it had for being a fun learning project.
The reason I got such a good deal on it was because it was sold in non-working condition, but the seller and I both had a pretty good hunch about what was wrong. The seller said that they had bought it as an open box unit, but couldn't get it to POST. However, they had only tried CPUs in it that were not compatible with the original BIOS version. I decided to have some fun and see if that was indeed the only problem. I didn't have an older CPU available to easily test that theory. I did have a new Ryzen 7 5700G, which is only supported by BIOS revision P1.60 or newer.
An interesting read for those of us who are happy to work at the hardware level.
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