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miaofthestars

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Registered: 2023-04-20

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Updating Asus AMD motherboards, wiki page seems unclear on requirement

Good morning. Please do let me know if this is the incorrect subforum for this topic.

I built a new PC last week, and for peace of mind am updating the BIOS on my Asus Prime B550M-K ARGB motherboard. My mobo supports the EZ FLASH 3 utility allowing me to update this from within itself.

Having followed the documentation on asus's website, I checked archwiki- and noticed that the ASUS bios upgrade page https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Flashi … Linux#ASUS here seems unclear, and on looking a bit more the ME requirement seems specific to Intel.

I'm wondering if there's any similar requirement for AMD boards?

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BS86

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Registered: 2022-11-03

Posts: 33

Re: Updating Asus AMD motherboards, wiki page seems unclear on requirement

1. Download the correct BIOS File from the ASUS website
2. Extract the BIOS
3. Copy the .CAP file to a filesystem that the EZ Flash BIOS can read (NTFS/Fat32 definitely work)
4. Enter BIOS and navigate to the EZ Flash Tool
5. Load the file you copied earlier and follow instructions

Both of my ASUS Motherboards (TUF GAMING X670E and ROG STRIX X470-F GAMING) don't support updates via fwupd - only partial updates of UEFI signatures are possible - I would be surprised if it would be different for your board.
Personally, I only updated those by accident some weeks ago while checking what KDE's Discover can do. Nether updated them before and did not have problems.
Edit: And yes, the wiki is Intel-only, those extra steps are not necessary for AMD boards.

Last edited by BS86 (2024-10-23 11:37:18)