Hello,

I am wondering if anyone has tried modifying Z490 bios to allow Rocket Lake CPUs to work? I don't care about PCIe 4 just need the motherboard to support a 11600K. I bought an open box 11600K for $160 and would love to use it to replace a 10400 (the Z490-i was bought open box for $130 which is why it was paired with the 10400 for $140, in case you were wondering).

In my mind inserting the microcodes from another Z490 Asus board that has been updated would work but I am sure they added stuff for the PCIe 4 bits as well. So just wondering if anyone has tried updating a Z490 board that didn't have support for Rocket Lake.

Edit by Fernando: Thread moved into the "BIOS Modding Requests" Sub-Forum and title customized

The Intel ME FW version is main issue here besides adding the necessay mcodes, v14 vs v15.
Anyway as ur model has USB BFB u can give it a try.