Motherboard not posting

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/295027-amd-will-provide-a-free-temporary-uefi-upgrade-kit-for-ryzen-3000-motherboard-updates

yeah, confirms AMD pays for shipping both ways to load you the CPU for purpose of bios flash your motherboard to new CPU.

It wasn't newegg they where out of stock but a 3rd party from amazon. They are saying they don't have the resources to assist me and if I want to get it done I will need to contact the boards maker arg!

you need bios 5.4 or higher
your board has a bios from mid 2017 so has no idea what the 3200g cpu is or how to use it

now let me take an educated guess

you bought the x370 board from newegg ?

if so scroll thru ALL THE RECENT posts here asking for help with a dead new builds and see the COMMON denominator being the same
moron pc retailer shipping out new-OLD STOCK boards with ancient bios to decent hard working customers with latest gen cpus who then find out what they have paid there hard earned cash for what is technically useless

your options are

1) beg /borrow/steal a first gen ryzen cpu 1200/1300/1600/1700/1800 ( make sure you do NOT ORDER A 1200/1600 'AF' code cpu this will not work either) to boot the board to bios then flash the 'bridge' bios and then 5.4 or later

2) return the board to retailer and tell them they are morons and shipped a useless piece of hardware (due to old stock bios 3 years out of date)

3) contact AMD to fill out a request for a 'boot kit' this is a loaner first gen apu to enable you to boot to bios and flash a later version

none of the above are good news for yourself i know

but please bear in mind this very annoying issue is SOLELY down to a retailer with zero common sense or ability to see a large amount of customer returns due to their STUPIDITY ........

Edited by datonyb - 14 Jun 2020 at 11:44pm