Wanting to finally finish a build i abandoned years ago, trouble with bios update and CPU to motherboard compatibility

Posted by pighead234@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 3 comments

So the website “PC Part Picker” has said

“The Gigabyte B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard supports the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor with BIOS version F60. If the motherboard is using an older BIOS version, updating the BIOS will be necessary to support the CPU.”

I went ahead with the build a few years ago and power was running through everything okay but it obviously did not boot up and show any picture.

Whats a cheap cpu i can buy to simply boot it up and sort out the bios update before swapping the cpus and how does one actually go through the process of updating it?

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PretendingImNotAnApe@reddit

It used to be a 2200g but and actually used to have cpus they would send you to perform the update once upon a time. G because it had integrated graphics. They used to be 49 dollars and were handy to keep in a drawer fir firmware upgrades. Now all the boards are upgraded at the factory for every am4 cpuso it could be hard to find one

pighead234@reddit (OP)

Do you reckon i could even just buy a cheap used cpu that checks out for compatibility to get the update done?

Sure