AB350M-HDV - 18.50.16.01 to update BIOS?
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Topic: AB350M-HDV - 18.50.16.01 to update BIOS?
Posted By: May Czos
Subject: AB350M-HDV - 18.50.16.01 to update BIOS?
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2020 at 9:26pm
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Hi, I did a little (and very budget oriented) upgrade - Ryzen 3, Asrock AB350M-HDV, DDR4 RAM. I want to update BIOS since it's pretty old now (and I have an issue with RAM support). ASRock's page says that I need to install "AMD all in 1 with VGA driver ver:18.50.16.01_WHQL" beforehand and there's also a link to the software package. Thing is Google says 18.50.16.01 is a chipset driver, meanwhile ASRock links to a package that tries to reinstall my Radeon driver. Question is - is 18.50.16.01 a chipset or a GPU driver? Or both? I already have 20.4.2 Radeon Adrenalin, am I ok to install newer BIOS? |
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Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2020 at 9:50pm
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It is what the label says, an all in one driver that includes a display driver (with VGA). I would install what ASRock recommend you install, you can always update your GPU drivers again after the flash. To be clear, the Adrenaline driver does NOT include chipset drivers. ------------- 
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Posted By: May Czos
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2020 at 1:39am
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It says "Please install "AMD all in 1 with VGA driver ver:18.10.20_NHDA" or a later versionbefore updating to this BIOS". Is Radeon Adrenalin 20.4.2 a later version? |
Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2020 at 10:12pm
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the driver code is just the date backwards e.g. later driver is released 2april2020 ------------- [url=https://valid.x86.fr/jpg250]  [/url]3800X, powercolor reddevil vega64, gskill tridentz3866, taichix370, evga750watt gold |
Posted By: May Czos
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2020 at 8:53am
| BIOS updated successfully, I installed the latest drivers afterwards. RAM issue remained (probably a dead RAM stick). Weird thing though - when everything starts, at the very beginning the GPU cooler used to go crazy for a split second. Now it does it twice, right after the first time within less than a second. |