Question Rant - Firmware Update on DS3H B450 WIFI

[DAPUNISHER]

I'll preface my conjecture/questions by reminding everyone that the only reason I am not a complete idiot, is that I still have parts on backorder.

I suspect why the flash failed is due to the reason AMD did not want to support Zen 3 on older boards in the first place. The 128Mb is too small. ASRock has 3 bridge bios you have to install in chronological order to make it to the current BETA with security updates; if going from the 2017 bios version on the X370 model I linked. Perhaps it needs instructions to res and replace certain codebase later revision don't include? I wonder if it would be an issue on boards like the MSI MAX series that went to 256Mb?

Anyways, I try to learn from other peoples experiences. Hence, I will not be trying to go straight to the newest bios on AM4 boards with revisions that date from the Zen+ and Zen 2 era.

 

[tcsenter]

ASRock still kicking it on 16MB ROMs supporting new and old AM4 all the way back to Bristol Ridge. So any ROM needing more is for the branding bells and whistles, animations, kablooeys, and flashy things in the UEFI interface which has practically become an embedded OS by itself on some models.

 

[blckgrffn]

I finally swung back around to this, mostly because I need the desk space back and this computer was laying there partially disassembled.

20 minutes after starting the motherboard pull it’s back together and running mem test with all the major components moved over - memory, cpu and GPU. Posted first time I hit the power button. Magical, right? /s

I am going to swap out to some new fans and redo some cable management before I button it up but all signs point to it simply being a bum board.

 

[Seba]

Time for another BIOS update, then.

 

[tcsenter]

I finally swung back around to this, mostly because I need the desk space back and this computer was laying there partially disassembled.

20 minutes after starting the motherboard pull it’s back together and running mem test with all the major components moved over - memory, cpu and GPU. Posted first time I hit the power button. Magical, right? /s

I am going to swap out to some new fans and redo some cable management before I button it up but all signs point to it simply being a bum board.

Wait, the OP motherboard that appeared to be dead is resurrected? Or you mean the new motherboard is working with old components?

 

[blckgrffn]

Wait, the OP motherboard that appeared to be dead is resurrected? Or you mean the new motherboard is working with old components?

The latter.

All the time I spent forking around with the old board, in terms of time investment it was a huge waste. A new board worked immediately. I feel like that’s something you only know a couple hours into the testing and resurrection ritual, though.

That said, I would have been happy if the old board had sorted itself out and worked. If anyone wants it (minus the wifi) I’ll send it for what it costs me to ship it, with backplate. I’ll dispose of it shortly.