Not just crumbs in the CPU socket: Over 100 AMD 9800X3D chips are now reported to have gone pop and the most by far have died in ASRock motherboards
Crumbs in the socket, nothing to see here. So, said ASRock last week in a blog post addressing reports of dead AMD Ryzen 9000 ...
AMD says the problem with Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips failing to boot is down to memory compatibility issues and not actually dead CPUs
In short, AMD doesn't think CPUs are actually dying.
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Now AMD Ryzen 9950X3D CPUs Are Failing in ASRock Motherboards
The new chip failed after nine days of operation, which should discount ASRock's recent claims that the problems were caused ...
Burned AMD Ryzen 9800X3D motherboard just needed a clean, says ASRock
ASRock says it's taking incidents of broken 9800X3D systems seriously, and has issued new BIOS updates for its Socket AM5 ...
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ASRock denies causing damage to Ryzen 9000 CPUs, but fixes boot issues
Addressing recent technical concerns, ASRock has released a detailed statement regarding boot failures on systems utilizing ...
ASRock Investigation Hints At User Error For Burned Ryzen 7 9800X3D
ASRock says it was able to completely restore functionality of a seemingly damaged X870E motherboard that burned several ...
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BIOS Flashing Journey Writeup Puts Tutorials To Shame
he adds series resistors to make sure there’s no chance of the programmer damaging the BIOS chip with its hardwired pinout. This is just an example of the insights in [Doug]’s article ...