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I want to buy an ASUS H81M-PLUS mainboard and an Intel i3-4150. The CPU is an Haswell Refresh CPU, but the mainboard needs a newer BIOS version to support the CPU. I expect it won't be shipped with the latest BIOS so I have to update the BIOS before the CPU works. How can I make sure it will work?

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I'm afraid that the only solutions are too either get your hands on a CPU that does work and use it to flash before installing the v2 chip, or to send it back to the manufacturer for a flash (they will usually do so, and I am pretty sure asus will). The motherboard cannot flash itself without a working CPU installed.

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Not sure if you decided to buy this motherboard, but for anyone thinking about it, I purchased board with A G3258 cpu on 14th September (same Haswell family) and the board shipped with bios 805 or 806, booted fine with cpu and was able to flash bios to 2001, although not done any over clocking on it yet.

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