bios update launched recently.
Do you update your bios if the version your currently running just werks?
My shitty mobo doesn't have bios flashback or a secondary bios, so there's risk involved with updating. Plus all the memory timings, undervolts/overclocks, and fan curves have to be reset manually.
Why don't those AMD faggots release patch notes with these AGESA updates?
Not like this...
>intel ME is bad
>AMD AGESA is good because... uhh it just is, ok?
>doesn't know what AGESA actually is and conflates it with an internet connected remote management engine with its own internal OS
Jew
>My shitty mobo doesn't have bios flashback or a secondary bios, so there's risk involved with updating
0 risk, just have a Thinkpad with Linux and a hardware flasher for your voltage level.
What risk? Do you live in the third world with weekly power outages? I always update, it takes ten seconds and there's no reason to stay on outdated crap.
>doesn't know what AGESA actually is
Neither do you, since it's proprietary spyware.
That's the PSP, you fucking retard. I wish election tourists would go back to their home board.
yes yes, and in intcel terms it's the ME and TXT.
Totally different things from marketing perspective but in reality the same firmware with different flags set.
Kill yourself.
Still wrong. The Intel equivalent to AGESA is FSP. It's just a firmware package for initializing and configuring the hardware. The real spyware is elsewhere.
Doesn't change the fact that the PSP glows
Listen you purple lipped niggers, when you have no BIOS flahsback and no secondary bios, any bios update failure results in a bricked MOBO that can only be fixed with EEPROM bios flashing tool or RMA.
>openly admits he didn't even know what AGESA is
LMAO
>bios update failure
Why would it fail if you live in the first world with a stable electrical grid?
>can only be fixed with EEPROM bios flashing tool or RMA
I don't know of a single modern motherboard or laptop without some sort of BIOS recovery mechanism.
>Do you update your bios if the version your currently running just werks?
No.
First world regions that rely on green energy are subject to brownouts. Plenty of stuff from the 400 series and earlier lacks bios flashback, and SFF boards don't have switchable backup BIOS's.
>First world regions that rely on green energy are subject to brownouts
Even if that's true outside the US (not a first world country), your PSU will handle voltage drops without a sweat.
>Plenty of stuff from the 400 series and earlier lacks bios flashback
My TUF B450 doesn't have BIOS flashback, but it can still recover the BIOS if it gets corrupted. I'm sure your board can too.
>My TUF B450 doesn't have BIOS flashback, but it can still recover the BIOS if it gets corrupted. I'm sure your board can too.
How does that work? My old sandy/ivybridge MOBO has dual bios with a physical switch. My MSI B450i itx mobo has neither bios flashback nor dual bios.
You plug in a USB drive with a BIOS file and it can recover a corrupted BIOS. MSI M-Flash on your board might be able to do a similar thing, but it's not in the manual for your board, which is surprising. Most boards and pretty much every modern laptop can recover the BIOS from a USB drive, assuming a compatible CPU is installed (this is why it's different from BIOS Flashback which doesn't require a CPU at all).
>Most boards and pretty much every modern laptop can recover the BIOS from a USB drive, assuming a compatible CPU is installed (this is why it's different from BIOS Flashback which doesn't require a CPU at all).
That's interesting, I was never aware of such capabilities. I bought an MSI b450 itx mobo, and had to pay $10 to get the bios reflashed because my cpu was incompatible and bios flashback was only a feature on boards costing $100 more.
Youre saying that I could recover from an aborted bios update without the 'bios flashback' feature?
>and had to pay $10 to get the bios reflashed because my cpu was incompatible
I think you need true BIOS Flashback if the board hasn't received the necessary BIOS update. "ASUS CrashFree BIOS" is only for recovering from a failed update.
>Youre saying that I could recover from an aborted bios update without the 'bios flashback' feature
At least my ASUS board can. I can't find any documentation for that feature on your MSI board so maybe they don't have that functionality at all.