Spies Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 I'm running Version 1804 on my B450 motherboard, which is several version behind the latest, should I update or leave things as they are? Everything appears to be working aside from an issue with IOMMU io_page_fault which I think I have solved by disabling IOMMU in the BIOS. Quote Link to comment
perhansen Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Update. Its always a good idea to use the latest version. It could have some security updates etc. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
testdasi Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 "always" is a rather strong recommendation that those who suffered from the recent Ryzen BIOS problems would not vouch for. I would say the more appropriate recommendation is to read the patch notes. If there are security patches (and that you are concerned about such security holes) and/or bug fixes (and that you are suffering from such bugs) then update. If the patch notes are not cleared as to what bugs were fixed (and that you are suffering from some bugs) then sure update and see how it goes. Otherwise, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. 1 Quote Link to comment
CrashnBrn Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 (edited) 6 hours ago, testdasi said: "always" is a rather strong recommendation that those who suffered from the recent Ryzen BIOS problems would not vouch for. I would say the more appropriate recommendation is to read the patch notes. If there are security patches (and that you are concerned about such security holes) and/or bug fixes (and that you are suffering from such bugs) then update. If the patch notes are not cleared as to what bugs were fixed (and that you are suffering from some bugs) then sure update and see how it goes. Otherwise, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. I agree with this 100%. I've definitely been in situations at work where we updated a server BIOS and it caused more issues than it fixed. On the other hand a BIOS update fixed the issues on my SM board that was causing unraid to randomly reboot. Unless there is a major security patch or I have a bug I'm looking to patch I don't touch my BIOS on unraid. My desktop computer is a different story. I don't care if it goes down for a day or two, so every now and then I flash the bios. Edited December 2, 2019 by CrashnBrn Quote Link to comment
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