How can you tell if you need a BIOS flash for Ryzen 2000-series APUs?

[Lordhumungus]

Yeah, i can't really explain some of the issues I am seeing, such as the no audio devices. The hangs are also different than I've ever experienced and seem to be graphics related.

If this is the price we are going to have to pay for forward compatibility on AM4, I'm not really sure it's worth it. I'm not even clear how this is helpful for board manufacturers as their RMAs must be through the roof when it comes to Ryzen G compatibility.

Maybe it's AMD's fault for not giving them enough time with final hardware before launching?

 

[XavierMace]

Like I said in several other threads, Asrock has had a REALLY bad time with their 4.x BIOS's and Raven Ridge and I haven't seen any complains of any of the other OEM's having that problem so I have a hard time blaming AMD for it. I'll admit, up until now, I'd been a pretty strong supporter of Asrock as they hadn't let me down. They provided good products at a reasonable price. But my Raven Ridge experience completely ate that up. They went through I think 5 beta BIOS's before having one that fixed the WiFi causing BSOD's and this was weeks after release.

 

[Lordhumungus]

Yeah I mean all fair points, I was warned. Seems like there has to be something to the 2400G specifically as I have read some amount of positive experiences similar to Larry's.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm having some freeze, or maybe just "black screen" issues, with my AB350M Pro4 and my 2200G. I've removed the 3.90Ghz OC, and have been trying it in Linux Mint 18.3 (newest 4.13-series kernel), and Windows 10 1709 64-bit. (Just installed the Vega APU driver for Win10, but that's showing me 17.7, which is what Win10 auto-installed?)

 

[XavierMace]

Other than my initial gaming tests, I haven't done anything more intensive on my 2200G than steaming from my Plex server. But I've been using it daily for Plex/Netflix, no issues at all, still on the 17.7 Radeon driver.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Any further updates from anyone using a 2200G or 2400G? Especially in an ASRock B350 board, even more especially in an AB350M Pro4, with UEFI 4.50, 4.63, or 4.70.

I've been messing around more with my 2200G in my AB350M Pro4, and it seemed stable, after a fresh re-install, with my Corsair DDR4 @ 2133, but settting XMP, or even overclocking the RAM to 2933 @ 1.350V (which I did, to test), seemed stable at first, but then, it won't wake from monitor sleep. Even with "HDMI Link Assurance" enabled. Maybe it's system instability, and maybe it's a VEGA iGPU driver bug, that was common back in the days of the R7 260X?

 

[Gabchile]

Any further updates from anyone using a 2200G or 2400G? Especially in an ASRock B350 board, even more especially in an AB350M Pro4, with UEFI 4.50, 4.63, or 4.70.

I've been messing around more with my 2200G in my AB350M Pro4, and it seemed stable, after a fresh re-install, with my Corsair DDR4 @ 2133, but settting XMP, or even overclocking the RAM to 2933 @ 1.350V (which I did, to test), seemed stable at first, but then, it won't wake from monitor sleep. Even with "HDMI Link Assurance" enabled. Maybe it's system instability, and maybe it's a VEGA iGPU driver bug, that was common back in the days of the R7 260X?

Hey.
I bought an ASRock AB350 Pro4 ATX motherboard, 2400G and 2*4 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000 MHz ram.

I immediately updated to 4.70 BIOS but the system is really unstable still.

I couldn't get the ram to boot at 3066, only 2933 worked, a bit unstable still.

Ram voltage set to 1.35V and XMP enabled at 2933.

I'm getting once in a while a whole system freeze, with no other option but to hard reboot using the power button.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Try running the RAM without XMP, at 2133, optionally either at 1.20V (Jedec standard voltage), or 1.35V (XMP, some RAM may require extra volts to run, even at lower speeds).

See if it's more stable with slower RAM.

My 2400G was unstable, to the point of UEFI freezing and not letting me adjust settings, in my AB350M Pro4 (mATX version), with UEFI 4.50 and 4.70.

 

[Gabchile]

Try running the RAM without XMP, at 2133, optionally either at 1.20V (Jedec standard voltage), or 1.35V (XMP, some RAM may require extra volts to run, even at lower speeds).

See if it's more stable with slower RAM.

My 2400G was unstable, to the point of UEFI freezing and not letting me adjust settings, in my AB350M Pro4 (mATX version), with UEFI 4.50 and 4.70.

Hi Larry, I will try that later today.

Hopefully ASRock fixes the bios though, as 2133 is too slow babdwith for the iGPU.

Agesa version says 1.0.0.1a, so hopefully new versions come around soon.

Did you get your system running stable?