Bricked X470 Taichi?

So...

Bought two X470 Taichi boards. Gonna put some 3000 series Ryzen chips in them when ever they arrive.

Paid for a bios update for them in the store cause i don't have any past AMD stuff. But when tey arrived they were only on version 2.00... And i need to be on 3.40 for 3000 series chips.

So i bought an A6-9500 APU for the bios update. Only problem being that all bios versions over 2.00 gave me the "no image file detected" error.. 1.60 and 2.00 showed just fine once i added them.

So, i decided to try backing up to 1.60. Worked fine. Once there, i noticed that all bios versions up to 3.40 showed on the list. BUT, there is a requirement to update to 2.00 first before updating to any 3.XX series bios. So i updated back to 2.00 one more time, just to see that all versions over 2.00 were gone again.

Then i went to 1.60 again and took the risk of trying to update to 3.10.. it didn't complain about it and went through the update. But, when it tried to reboot it got stuck on 00 debug code forever.

So:

1. Did i brick the whole board? :D
2. Was the problem that APU for not being able to go forward from 2.00?
3. If so, what CPU/APU should i use for the other board for the same process?

Other ideas?

Link to bios list https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/X470%20Taichi/index.asp#BIOS

you can only update to 3.XX using the bridge bios 2.00

gizmic wrote: you can only update to 3.XX using the bridge bios 2.00

Yeah, that was already known. There were "slight" problems doing so, as stated in the op.

I think pre-Ryzen support had to be dropped to fit the 3000 series support in, which might be why you aren't getting anywhere with post-2.0 BIOS. With any sort of luck, the 1200 will do the trick.

Finally that R3-1200 arrived, and so did my first 3000 series chip, an R5-3600X.
Still waiting for a R7-3800X.

Bios updated without a problem with that R3-1200. Now running that R5-3600X without problems (about 15mins so far). My 16GB(2x8GB) 3200MHz kit of HyperX Predators running at max XMP no problem. Still have a 32GB(2x16GB) kit of the same memory, not tested it yet.