That'd be nice, but my deskmini, is my girlfriend's gaming rig, I'd like to be able to recover (quickly) if something goes wrong.
Fair enough, didn't think of it that way. I'm so used to server boards having a dedicated management chip to take care of this stuff
Does anyone have the beta bioses for the deskmini? The links posted before have all been taken down 
Does anyone have the beta bioses for the deskmini? The links posted before have all been taken down
I have just uploaded them, please grab now, will remove the files at some point
BIOS L3.51
BIOS L3.53
Thanks for your efforts!
Done and also have a copy of your FW as well @ExecutableFix . Thanks both of you.
I don't think so. Note that in the Anandtech Article, they specifically list A320 as not supporting Renoir: https://www.anandtech.com/show/1580...ryzen-4000-cpus-on-b450-and-x470-motherboards
I don't know where that info comes from but it's interesting that they explicitly say it won't. Also interesting is it says A320 doesn't support Zen 2 at all, which might explain everyone's difficulties with getting non-APU Ryzen 3000s to work. Did anyone test a Ryzen 2600 or something in the DeskMini? Or a 1600 AF?
I just got a response from emailing ASRock support where I asked if the a300 would support 4xxxG Zen 2 APUs and was told that the a300 would not support the 4XXX series. They didn't specify if they meant the regular zen 3 SKUs or whether than included the zen 2 APUs as well, but I take that as a sign that we would have to buy a newer revision of the a300 if we want the 4xxxG APU support. A little sad since I just bought the a300 a month ago with the hopes to upgrade to the sweet APUs coming out this year.
We need to keep up the pressure because this board should support the 4700G, which is Zen 2, despite the 4000 series name.
See my post above:
As of right now, no one has gotten any Zen 2 CPU to work on the Deskmini. Why would you expect a Zen 2 APU to work? If a board supported Zen 2 already, then sure I see your point, but to date no one has gotten any Zen 2 architecture CPU to boot. And that Anandtech article says the A320 doesn't support Zen 2, which is the "chipset" that the Deskmini uses.
We have no working Zen2 CPUs on the A300W because the system was designed for APUs and no Zen2 APUs have been available to buy. This could change if ASRock updates the BIOS with support.
Unfortunately, like earlier posts by ASRock themselves in this thread have revealed, they are likely launching a new Deskmini a400 or something similar with a couple small revisions and out of the box support for the new gen APUs. The good news is it will probably not be more expensive than the a300. We can complain all we want, but ASRock has the easy defense of saying the mobo in the a300 is too weak or whatever to handle the new APUs and will happily sell us a $150 upgrade.
If it's true that an A400 will be coming out and the A300 support will end, then I might just stick with my A300 and then build a larger but more powerful 3950X system. I just built one for an organization I work with and that 16 core is sweet. A 4700G would be fine for my uses but if I'm going to have to spend another $150 to get Zen2 support then I might as well go X570 R9 3950X.
Yes, I tested a 2600. That is why this thread was started, by me.
I am afraid it cannot and not because of the BIOS, either: AC-9560 requires one of the latest Intel processors supporting CNVi to work. "This module must be used with an Intel SoC which supports Connectivity Integration (CNVi). " The reason: specific portions of the Wi-Fi chipset circuitry have been rolled into the processor. Don't worry: many others have made this mistake thinking the 9560, because it has the higher number, is the better version, and they have ended up having to return their Wi-Fi cards. It is the same problem with the AX201. Just make sure that you grab the non-CNVi equivalent. The non-CNVi version of the AC-9560 you would want is the AC-9260. Or if you want to step up to Wi-Fi 6, in the place of the AX201, the non-CNVi version you would be after is the AX200.
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