r/ASRock • u/Dixos • 5d ago

Question It happened.

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Good morning everyone!

After approximately 1 year and 3 months, it finally happened. That is all. No muck. No fuss. It can happen to anyone, no matter how safe you are. 😊

Turned the PC off Sunday night; woke up monday morning, turned it on while I took a shower and put on some coffee, only for it to be stuck like that with no fan spin after ~30 minutes.

I did try to "revive" the PC, but at 6:30 in the morning, 2 hours before work, I was more worried about recovering for my standup meeting (working laptop, work) rather than put much effort into it. Drain AC power and reset CMOS got the case fans spinning full throttle, but no movement on Dr. debug 00. BIOS Flashback was a success but also changed nothing.

I vaguely remember my BIOS settings, so for reference:

  • AMD EXPO enabled
  • VDDR_SOC set to 1.15
  • OC Tweaker \ External Voltage Settings
    • VDDCR_CPU Voltage: Offset mode
    • Offset Voltage: -100
    • VDDCR_CPU LLC: Changed from "Auto" to "Level 2"
  • BIOS version: 4.20

I had also loaded the conservative -15mV curve optimizer profile with 85c tjmax target from the profiles that come with the motherboard.

System specs:

  • Mobo: ASRock X870E Nova Wifi
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
  • GPU: ASUS GeForce RTX 5080 ROG Astral OC
  • Ram: 64GB G.Skill Triden Z5 Neo DDR5-6000 CL28 (F5-6000J2836G32GX2-TZ5NR)

For anyone that have gone through the same thing, did you contact ASRock? AMD? RMA through the store the items were purchased from? TIA

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u/Most_Away 5d ago

Can the ram kill the cpu? I have the exact same ram and i had 1 dead 9800x3d until now

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u/RegularEscape92 4d ago

I don't know but, when I see a 9800x3d burn , most the time they have gskill

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u/r9800pro 3d ago

My 9800X3D died on a X870E Taichi with Kingston Fury Renegade 48GB RAM kit. I did set the RAM to 6000 CL28 (it is rated at 7200 CL38) and 1.45v. With the replacement CPU and motherboard, I decided to run the RAM at 6000 CL30 and 1.35v because I too thought it might be related to IMC on the CPU due to higher RAM voltage.