In a strange turn of events, ASRock has removed the BIOS updates bringing Ryzen 5000 Series support to its B450 motherboards. Hardware Canucks was one of the first to post about this vanishing trick.
ASRock last week: We’re supporting B450 + Ryzen 5000! Updated BIOSes, CPU Support lists & press release went out
— Hardware Canucks (@hardwarecanucks) November 24, 2020
This week: 5000 gone from support lists, press release gone from site, BIOS description changed.
Wrists = slapped?🧐🧐🧐 https://t.co/VgZNDhfItD
We’ve confirmed that the BIOS files have been removed, along with the support lists for Ryzen 5000 Series CPUs on B450 motherboards. ASRock has not made an official statement as to why this happened, but there are a few theories about it.
One theory is that AMD had ASRock take them down because it hadn’t revealed Precision Boost Overdrive 2 yet, which has since been announced. Another possibility is that there were performance issues, and ASRock needed to make some improvements. Or perhaps it is just pulling back until it can roll out the BIOS to its X470 products too. One way or another, the updates are sure to return.