https://forum.asrock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:58:09 +0000 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:14:02 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.asrock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=12216 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums_black.png https://forum.asrock.com/ https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=67477&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#67477 Author: billy whizz
Subject: 12216
Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 4:14pm

Just to finish up; it did actually say 1.50 on the BIOS chip so I loaded 1.50, 2.00 and 3.50 onto a usb stick, finally got into UEFI and it said L3.43. The Flash utility would not recognise BIOS 2.00, so it definitely had L3.43 on, so proceeded to update to 3.50 without problem, fortunately.

Everything is great now, got the build done, got OSes set up, really pleased with the build. Just got to fiddle with hardware / system fine tuning now.]]> Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:14:02 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=67477&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#67477 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66853&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66853 Author: kschendel
Subject: 12216
Posted: 19 Aug 2019 at 1:35pm

If your BIOS is that old, it might be too old for a 200GE, consider a 2200G (or a 1200 plus a $20 ebay video card to get it up and running).
]]> Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:35:29 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66853&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66853 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66729&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66729 Author: billy whizz
Subject: 12216
Posted: 16 Aug 2019 at 7:52pm

I've just spoken to the tech guy at the retailer I bought it from (he does their system builds for the public) and he assures me that any new processors without the correct string information would NOT be recognised by Dr Debug and would remain blank.

He also thinks the BIOS I currently have is at 1.50, so I think I'll need to flash twice to get to current 3.60.

Seeing as though this particular X470 motherboard was the one I wanted, with exactly what I needed, I'll buy the Athlon 200GE chip and probably keep it.

Thanks all for the input, it was valuable to get to this point. ]]> Fri, 16 Aug 2019 19:52:41 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66729&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66729 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66712&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66712 Author: butchboy
Subject: 12216
Posted: 16 Aug 2019 at 9:33am

I had a 2000 series chip available and immediately updated the bios. So I don't know if Dr. Debug would've shown any codes if I had my 3700x in there instead. If you don't want to hassle with the AMD loaner program or get a compatible CPU some other way, only way other way to guarantee your board will work with your chip is to get an X570 board.

What I did is bought a cheap Athlon chip from Amazon and am going to resell it on Ebay. I did it that way because of Amazon's 2 day shipping.]]> Fri, 16 Aug 2019 09:33:10 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66712&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66712 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66710&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66710 Author: billy whizz
Subject: 12216
Posted: 16 Aug 2019 at 6:54am

It appears there is a 'loan boot kit' available from AMD, basically they loan you a AMD Athlon 200GE so you can do a BIOS update.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-100#faq-Short-Term-Processor-Loan-Boot-Kit

I think I'll still RMA the board as I still don't trust the fact that there is no working Dr Debug. It still think it should have registered something at least to let you know the chip was incompatible at the current BIOS. No LED, no beep cod, no nothing? ]]> Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:54:26 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66710&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66710 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66708&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66708 Author: billy whizz
Subject: 12216
Posted: 16 Aug 2019 at 5:02am

So I deduce from that you had a Ryzen 2xxx processor hamdy and updated the BIOS?

]]> Fri, 16 Aug 2019 05:02:22 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66708&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66708 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66706&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66706 Author: butchboy
Subject: 12216
Posted: 16 Aug 2019 at 4:46am

Just because it says it's Ryzen 3000 ready doesn't mean it is. It means it could be if the BIOS is up to date. My board came with a small sticker on the BIOS chip indicating what version of BIOS it came with. The sticker on mine said P3.20 which meant I had to update my bios before it would recognize my Ryzen 3700x chip. Bios for the Taichi x470 need to be at least 3.40 for Ryzen 3000 CPUs.]]> Fri, 16 Aug 2019 04:46:47 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66706&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66706 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66703&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66703 Author: billy whizz
Subject: 12216
Posted: 16 Aug 2019 at 4:33am

I don't, I bought it because it says "AMD Ryzen 3000 Desktop Ready" on the box so assumed it was either 3.10 or 3.20 BIOS and had read that was enough. ]]> Fri, 16 Aug 2019 04:33:42 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66703&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66703 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66702&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66702 Author: Ray62
Subject: 12216
Posted: 16 Aug 2019 at 4:19am

Do you know which bios version is on the board?
Version 3.40 at least must be used for the Ryzen 5 3600.]]> Fri, 16 Aug 2019 04:19:18 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66702&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66702 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66700&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66700 Author: billy whizz
Subject: 12216
Posted: 16 Aug 2019 at 4:04am

Hi Xaltar

If I short it it starts the fan up and corrects the 'stutter' it just stays on, which I presume is normal. In fact it starts the fan up every time of doing that procedure, what it doesn't do is shut the fan down if I try to short it again - and still no Dr Debug led, not even a flicker. ]]> Fri, 16 Aug 2019 04:04:07 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12216&PID=66700&title=breadboading-taichi-x470-need-help#66700