A320m
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Forum Name: AMD Motherboards
Forum Description: Question about ASRock AMD motherboards
URL: https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=25619
Printed Date: 20 Apr 2024 at 9:24pm
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Topic: A320m
Posted By: innosault
Subject: A320m
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2023 at 10:18am
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Hello everyone, First time here looking for some help. I have a a320m motherboard with a ryzen 3 1200. I bought a new ryzen 7 3700x to upgrade. I?™m aware I need to update the BIOS before installing the new cpu. I went on the asrock website for some information and followed steps promptly. My issue came up when updating to bios 5.3 from 3.2. (I had an older version than 3.2 so I had to update the BIOS to 3.2 to get to 5.3 like it said and it went smooth) It?™s not reading the 5.3 file when I try installing it in the bios. I didn?™t have this issue when I updated it from 3.1 to 3.2. I installed the amd driver prior to installing the new bios. I?™m not sure what else to do at this point. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Posted By: eccential
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2023 at 7:03pm
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Umm, which motherboard? I found all these on AsRock site: A320M Pro4-F, A320M/ac, A320M-DVS R4.0, A320M-HDVP, A320M-HDV R4.0, A320M-HD R4.0, and A320M-HD I looked through all of them, including different revisions when present, and saw no mention of any BIOS version 5.3. |
Posted By: innosault
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2023 at 9:07pm
| It?™s just an a320m, that?™s it |
Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2023 at 10:21pm
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https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A320M/index.asp#BIOS" rel="nofollow - https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A320M/index.asp#BIOS ------------- 
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Posted By: innosault
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2023 at 10:24pm
| Yes that one. |
Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2023 at 11:24pm
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Aside from the usual "make sure you unzip it if it's an archive" I can't really think what could be the issue. It may be worth trying to put some of the earlier updates on the same flash drive, it could require one of them before going to 5.30. I know it looks like you should be able to go from 3.2 to 5.30 directly but you never know. I will say however that I wouldn't use a 3700x on an A320 board, while technically it will work, it is an ultra budget board with very weak VRMs. In all likelihood you will be throttled most of the time and running hot on the VRMs. The A320 chipset and boards designed for it were really meant to be used with low spec Athlon and at most Ryzen 3 parts for budget office/home systems. Don't get me wrong, for the money they are great boards but not ideal for higher power CPUs. But that isn't the issue here, just a bit of advice. I have used a few A320 boards with Ryzen 5s and found they tend to run uncomfortably hot (the VRMs not the CPU). If you still can't update after including earlier updates on your flash drive I would open a ticket with ASRock support, there could be an error on the site. http://event.asrock.com/tsd.asp Good luck  -------------
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Posted By: Dodgydruid
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2023 at 2:17am
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I think you have to go 3.4 before 5.50, I have been battling my own A320M-HDV R4 all day and STILL am on its original ship BIOS as motherboard refuses to load images says "image not detected" in both F2 UEFI and F6 flash scenarios. I even bought a brand new USB stick because it would not accept my other good sticks and getting pretty fed up all round with this pile of doings :( I have never ever since I started flashing BIOS's back in the day covering several decades of PC use and engineering been faced with such a circular chasing tail situation :( :( :( Always bought Asrock, my last build was a tidy Extreme4, Extreme3 before that and I flashed them BIOS's no problemo. |