AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac - BIOS 4.40 bricked it

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   Because now you need a pre raven ridge APU, such as the AMD boot kit.
Why? because you backdated your BIOS to 3.6 bridge BIOS when there was absolutely no need to.
You ( usually)work your way through the BIOS updates in a linear fashion, and there may be what is called a Bridge BIOS...on this MB version 3.6 is such a Bridge BIOS....once you have it it allows you to then download a Raven Ridge compatible BIOS.  Such as 4.40 (yes, it is very buggy)
You were already at that stage......and because you were at that stage you had no further need to use a Bridge BIOS from earlier in the series. You could and shold have gone straight to 4.50.
You are not the first to fall for this, perhaps it could be stressed more in the literature.
But you do not have Bricked MB, just one with a BIOS not ready for Raven Ridge, so beg borrow or steal an APU that will allow you to boot, install 4.50 and put it down to experience.

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stree Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 17 Dec 2015 Location: Lincolnshire Status: Offline Points: 264	Post Options Post Reply Quote stree Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac - BIOS 4.40 bricked it Posted: 18 Mar 2018 at 2:21pm
	Because now you need a pre raven ridge APU, such as the AMD boot kit. Why? because you backdated your BIOS to 3.6 bridge BIOS when there was absolutely no need to. You ( usually)work your way through the BIOS updates in a linear fashion, and there may be what is called a Bridge BIOS...on this MB version 3.6 is such a Bridge BIOS....once you have it it allows you to then download a Raven Ridge compatible BIOS. Such as 4.40 (yes, it is very buggy) You were already at that stage......and because you were at that stage you had no further need to use a Bridge BIOS from earlier in the series. You could and shold have gone straight to 4.50. You are not the first to fall for this, perhaps it could be stressed more in the literature. But you do not have Bricked MB, just one with a BIOS not ready for Raven Ridge, so beg borrow or steal an APU that will allow you to boot, install 4.50 and put it down to experience.
	ASRock X370-ITX BIOS 4.50 R5 2600 Cryorig C7 EVGA GTX 950 75w 2x8GB Ballistix Sport LT 2933 960Evo M.2 256GB, Firecuda 1TB Win 10 Pro 64 1803 G-Unique Archdaemon 300 Watt Lian-li Q21B

thiagohpb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 18 Mar 2018 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote thiagohpb Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Mar 2018 at 1:26pm
	I just bought a AB350 ITX/ac MB, on my first day using it, I've tried to update BIOS because the CPU temperature was 127ºC constantly... even just after starting up. The original BIOS version was 4.40, I've found on the MB website a version 4.50, saying: Before updating this BIOS, please update BIOS to P3.60 firstly. So I downloaded the 3.60 and 4.50 versions, put on the pendrive just formated in FAT32, I did the first update to 3.60 version, It was completed 100%, ask to press enter to restart the system, after that my screen keeps off and the MB stays restarting... I have no screen. I tried to reset the CMOS but no way... It keeps the same. My CPU is a Ryzen 5 2400G. Does anybody have an idea to fix that?

Matush Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 23 Feb 2018 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote Matush Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Feb 2018 at 6:27am
	The same issue here. Got hte AB350 ITX board, put in mine old 1600 to get the board SW up to 4.4 (Raven Ridge supported BIOS), after the middle FW 3.6 upgrade all good, after going from 3.6 to 4.4 system is booting to the first BIOS window (F2 DEL to BIOS F6 INSTAN FLASH) but only for about a second then restarts and over and over forever. Tried everything mentioned here, clear CMOS, etc, but the same .... Going to return the board back to asrock as this is nonsense.

Dibdidu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 17 Jan 2018 Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dibdidu Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jan 2018 at 4:09am
	Nothing, but it adds support for new cpu/apu. I will get an Ryzen 5 2400G soon. But it seems it stops supporting 9800E^^

wussery Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 15 Nov 2017 Status: Offline Points: 56	Post Options Post Reply Quote wussery Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jan 2018 at 3:19am
	What was Bios 4.40 supposed to fix?
	MOBO: ASRock AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 RAM: G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB DDR4 3200 GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC PSU: EVGA 750 B3 Cooler: Cryorig C7 Boot Disk: SAMSUNG 850 PRO 256GB SSD

Dibdidu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 17 Jan 2018 Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dibdidu Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 5:15pm
	Heyho, i got my new 3.40 bios chip. It isn't working... Screen is black, no led for keyboard and system is restarting all the time. -> RMA.

matthoz Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 17 Jan 2018 Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote matthoz Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jan 2018 at 11:27pm
	Same here. Instant flash in UEFI BIOS with good USB Stick. (Checked for bad blocks)

Dibdidu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 17 Jan 2018 Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dibdidu Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jan 2018 at 9:32pm
	No, just with Instant flash.

wardog Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 15 Jul 2015 Status: Offline Points: 6447	Post Options Post Reply Quote wardog Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jan 2018 at 9:17pm
	Was 3.60 performed via Windows Flash?

Dibdidu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 17 Jan 2018 Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dibdidu Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jan 2018 at 3:16am
	Yeah :/ I will report back when i get that bios chip. It would be nice when you open a ticket for this. Maybe we get an working bios^^ Edited by Dibdidu - 18 Jan 2018 at 3:18am