Based on my experience today:

If you buy a Ryzen 5 2400G and a new motherboard today, take note. You can put it together -- BUT IT WON'T WORK at all -- nothing shows up on the screen. Why? Because first the BIOS has to be flashed with the latest BIOS code. And, you cannot flash the BIOS unless you have a "standard Ryzen CPU" in the socket.

Catch 22 -- between a rock and a hard place -- if all you have is the new motherboard and the new Ryzen 5 2400G. You also need a "standard" non-APU Ryzen CPU for a few minutes.

Anyhow, I took the Ryzen 7 1800X out of the machine I'm typing on. I installed it in the new Motherboard. The old out of date BIOS in the new motherboard recognized the Ryzen 7 1800X and allowed me to flash the new BIOS for Ryzen 5 2400G. Then, all was well smile

Just a heads up, in the event someone else has the itch.


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