If you can’t get your shiny new Ryzen APU on the motherboard you bought last year, don’t panic: AMD officials have confirmed that they will indeed ship you an older, dual-core chip to help you make it work.
The problem relates to AMD’s new Ryzen APU and how it interacts with older stocks of motherboards. It’s a classic chicken-and-egg situation: Some older motherboards won’t recognize the new Ryzen APU without a BIOS update. And the only way to update that BIOS is to boot the system with a chip that it recognizes.
While some advanced motherboards allow updating a BIOS without a CPU, many budget boards don’t. For those few cases, AMD said it would offer a “boot kit” (once you’ve provided a qualifying APU serial number and other information). That “boot kit,” as it turns out, is actually an AM4-based Bristol Ridge APU. In a post by “Hansmuffin” at tech site arstechnica.com, a user wrote that AMD was sending a previous-generation APU to help perform the update.
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