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MSI patches AMD USB issues with fashionable X570 and B550 motherboard updates

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MSI has released BIOS updates for its X570 and B550 motherboards that speech the sporadic USB issues affecting Ryzen 5000 owners. The new firmware implements the AGESA 1.2.0.2 update AMD released to manufacturers evenhanded over a month ago, and while these BIOS updates are officially still in beta, reports have been sensationalism soh uttermost.

Not everyone has had USB problems with AMD's Dose 3 chips, but plenty of users have experienced dropped connection for things like extrinsic DACs and cameras done to external drives.

The stop-interruption mesmerism from AMD was to drop the PCI Express connectivity from 4.0 to 3.0 until the patch was released, which was peculiarly annoying for anyone using a next-gen NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD. This piece should offer a more overnight-term solution.

MSI has been releasing updates for its motherboards since April 8, and now has 21 of its motherboards covered. 5 X570 and 16 B550 boards have received the much-required fix to address USB problems. You ask to contain the update includes the line: "Update to ComboAM4PIV2 1.2.0.2".

MSI X570 Motherboards

MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk Wifi - 7C84v163 (beta)
MSI MEG X570 Ace - 7C35v1E3 (beta)
MSI MEG X570 Godlike - 7C34v1D3 (beta)
MSI MEG X570 Unify - 7C35vA93 (beta)
MSI Prestige X570 Founding - 7C36v1D2 (explorative)

MSI B550 Motherboards

MSI B550-A Pro - 7C56vA65 (beta)
MSI B550M Pro - 7D14v242 (of import)
MSI B550M Pro-Crash - 7C95v353 (explorative)
MSI B550M Pro-VDH - 7C95v272 (beta)
MSI B550M Favoring-VDH Wifi - 7C95v272 (beta)
MSI MAG B550M Bazooka - 7C95vA62 (beta)
MSI MAG B550M Mortar - 7C94v166 (beta)
MSI MAG B550M Mortar WiF - 7C94v166 (exploratory)
MSI Magazine 550 Tomahawk - 7C91vA64 (beta)
MSI MAG B550M Vector Wifi - 7D14vB42 (beta)
MSI MEG 550 Merge - 7D13v124 (beta)
MSI 1000000 B550 Mingle-X - 7D13vA24 (beta)
MSI MPG B550 Gaming Carbon Wifi - 7C90v163 (beta)
MSI MPG B550 Gaming Edge Wifi - 7C92v162 (beta)
MSI MPG B550 Gaming Edge Max Wifi - 7C92v162 (beta)
MSI MPG B550 Gaming Advantageous - 7C56v162 (beta)

More mobo updates are on the way from MSI too, with AMD X470 and B450 boards getting the New microcode. Other motherboard manufacturers are expected to go updates to the latest AGESA variant shortly as well.

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