chameleoneel
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I could be mis-understanding the feature. A CPU may be required in the socket, for the board to power and for the board logic related to flashback to function.You know, when I got mine back in January, I tried to do just that. Spent about an hour trying to perform the flashback and it wouldn't even start. I finally decided to just throw the 5800x in there with my 2700x's stock heatsink, the only thing I changed, and the board would perform the flashback just fine on the first try.
Just my experience.
The endpoint being that you should be able to use bios-flashback to update the bios of the B550-i, so it will then work with a Zen 3 CPU (which may need to be socketed, even if the computer otherwise won't boot normally).