Question Updating Aorus B450 Pro Wifi for Ryzen 3600

[Amruth Kiran]

Hello!

So I've been using the Gigabyte Aorus B450 Pro Wifi (Rev 1.0) for a while now coupled with a Ryzen 2400G. I recently bought the Ryzen 3600 but since this motherboard requires a BIOS update I went ahead using my 2400G to update the BIOS from its default version at F2 to the latest F50.

Even after the latest BIOS, I still can't get it to POST. A "No Signal" on my monitor ( via Nvidia 1660ti and even the 2400G's Radeon Graphics).

No clue how to go forward, I followed some threads here on this forum ( Link here) and I quote @VirtualLarry

Yeah. You'll need to flash the BIOS with an older CPU, to BIOS F31 first (bridge), then use the ECU Firmware update, then flash to F40, then F41a. At least, that's what I had to do with mine. (I have a Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro Wifi ATX, and a Ryzen R5 3600 CPU, although that CPU is currently in an Asus B450-F ROG STRIX ATX board, because my 240mm AIO WC kit was in that case, and I didn't feel like moving it, so I moved the CPU instead.)

This page lists F40 as the minimum version to run the Ryzen 5 3600.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Did you flash the bridge BIOS F31 first, before moving on to F41a and F50 (beyond what I played with).

If you didn't, you may have screwed things up. Also note the ECU (embedded controller) update.

The "first POST" for a 3000-series Ryzen CPU, especially after a BIOS flash (AGESA 1.0.0.2 especially), it can sometimes take... minutes... to POST. Like, literally 2-3 minutes.

 

[Amruth Kiran]

Thanks for your reply @VirtualLarry , so this is what I did

Flashed via the @Bios app by Aorus. Version F4, F5, updated the AMD chipset driver to latest, then F31, F32, installed the EC FW update tool (latest).

Doing this reverted by BIOS back to F2.

Here I didn't know if was supposed to redo the from F4 to F32 again so I jumped to F30 directly.

Flashed F31, F32, F40, F41, F42f and F50.

Never faced any corruption during this whole process (over 9hrs long).


My main question is should I flash each BIOS version one-by-one? or go the last main update and head on from there?