B450 I AORUS PRO WIFI Bios Upgrade

maklabouhlel · 9 Oct 2020 at 17:31

I'm on bios F32 and would like to update to newest bios F51. Anyone know whether I need to follow the steps detailed under BIOS F40 description first or can I go straight to F51?

Justintime · 9 Oct 2020 at 17:37

Well it looks like 32 was the minimum requirement for all and possibly 51d and 51 don't even have that requirement? Seems you should be fine. Though i would do the EC FW Update Tool thing as it looks to be updating some other chip on the board, very confusing! What cpu are you using?

maklabouhlel · 9 Oct 2020 at 17:51

Justintime said:
Well it looks like 32 was the minimum requirement for all and possibly 51d and 51 don't even have that requirement? Seems you should be fine. Though i would do the EC FW Update Tool thing as it looks to be updating some other chip on the board, very confusing! What cpu are you using?

I'm using 2400G but want to install 3600.

Justintime · 9 Oct 2020 at 17:56

Ok i think do the FW upgrade then go straight to 51 in my opinion, though on paper 51 says nothing about doing the Firmware upgrade i'd do it in case they forgot to add that part!

ketma · 12 Oct 2020 at 18:03

Yes, you MUST do the FW upgrade first, before going to the latest version, if you don't then you will get issues.

So its: F31 (or lower) -> F32 -> FW upgrade tool -> F40 -> Latest (F51)

maklabouhlel · 12 Oct 2020 at 18:32

ketma said:
Yes, you MUST do the FW upgrade first, before going to the latest version, if you don't then you will get issues.

So its: F31 (or lower) -> F32 -> FW upgrade tool -> F40 -> Latest (F51)

That's what I did after hearing horror stories of people bricking their board. It's irresponsible of Gigabyte not to include that info under F51. Who looks at the bios you are flashing from? I'm sure most people just find the latest bios and flash.

Slinky69 · 12 Oct 2020 at 19:25

maklabouhlel said:
That's what I did after hearing horror stories of people bricking their board. It's irresponsible of Gigabyte not to include that info under F51. Who looks at the bios you are flashing from? I'm sure most people just find the latest bios and flash.

Yikes - Yes, if doing it wrong can brick it, it should be in big red flashing letters!