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So, do you actually have to buy a supported cpu just to update the bios and then reinstall your 7700k. What do you do with the cpu you needed just for the BIOS update??
Great question! Fortunately, I work for a software company and our techs were about to build a new machine for a developer anyway. So they had a CPU over-nighted that will work. They'll use that to boot my machine and upgrade the BIOS, then they will use the CPU they bought to build a development machine.
I'm very fortunate to have this option, or I would have been looking at pulling the board and RMAing it...