A BIOS update awaits
AMD yesterday announced the arrival of a new APU, the A10-7870K. The new A-Series APU is part of AMD's "Godavari" lineup, which are basically extensions of Kaveri, and as we said they should serve as painless drop-in replacements on any socket FM2+ motherboard. Lest there be any doubt, Asus was quick to announce that its stable of FM2+ boards do in fact support Godavari, you just need to update the BIOS first.
While not entirely a risk-free procedure, updating a BIOS these days is really simple and generally safe. Just download the latest BIOS for your Asus board to a USB flash drive and save it to the root folder, then plug it into the USB BIOS Flashback port and hit the button next to it on your mobo for three seconds until the LED begins to blink.
If that's not possible for whatever reason, Asus lays out alternate ways of updating the BIOS on its FM2+ boards here.
Asus has over two dozen FM2+ motherboards, and the BIOS version you need will depend on which model you own. See here for a list of boards and the appropriate BIOS version.
From maximumpc
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