Reusing an old AMD motherboard (X370)

[Snowy]

Hi all,
I have an ASUS Prime X370-Pro motherboard and a Ryzen 7 1700X I purchased in 2017 before upgrading in 2021. Since then, the components have just been sitting in my closet collecting dust, but I'd like to revive this build to give to a friend. As part of this, I'd like to upgrade the CPU to a 5000-series processor (probably a Ryzen 5 5500) and I have some questions:

What should be the order of operations for getting the motherboard ready for a new processor?

I suspect I should do the following:

1. Install Windows 10 with existing PC components (X370-Pro, 1700X, 16GB Ram, Radeon 6700XT)
2. Update X370-Pro chipset drivers
3. Update X370-Pro BIOS
4. Install new CPU
5. Re-install Windows

Does this order seem right to you? Is there something I'm missing?

I don't think I ever updated any BIOS or chipset drivers when I ran this MOBO as everything just "worked", so I suspect it still has something from ~early 2017 loaded on it.

Thanks for your help

 

[Grimlakin]

I would see if that motherboard supports a power off or pre boot bios update. If so i would start with that with the 3000 series cpu still installed. Only then swap to the 5000 series cpu then do your installs. Reason being your memory controllers and i/o are different between gens and built into the cpu. Otherwise you'll be reverting and reinstalling drivers over after the cpu swap.

 

[Denpepe]

I would start with updating the bios and go from there, don't see any point in doing a windows install prior to that for the old hardware, you don't need windows to update a bios.

Do make sure that you don't skip any bios updates as sometimes you need to do a couple older ones first