Jack wrote: > On 2024.08.23 12:21, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> I'm a bit fed up with all of this. It's a new machine, but the >> motherboard, an MSI B650 Tomahawk Wifi, has been around a fair while and >> bugs in its BIOS ought to have been fixed by now. > > Just because the latest available BIOS might have fixed a problem does > not mean the physical mobo you bought actually has the latest BIOS > installed. Have you checked, just to be compulsively certain? > > I say that because not too many years ago, I bought an MSI mobo and > Ryzen CPU (from the same vendor) and I ended up having to buy (eBay) > an older CPU just to boot the machine so I could update the BIOS to > one which could handle the new CPU, because the installed BIOS was too > old. > >
When I built my new rig, one of the first things I did after making sure it wasn't bad out of the box, update the BIOS. Mine was like 2 or 3 versions behind. It booted and all but I did update anyway, just to prevent weirdness later. Turns out I had enough weirdness with a old monitor so I needed to rid myself of some for sure. I might add, I had to do the same thing on my old system when I first built it. I'm not sure on my very first rig. I think newer mobos will update now even without a CPU. At least mine seems claims that anyway. Dale :-) :-)
