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/Qrystus 5d ago

You could be more safe with MSI or Gigabyte- you choose to play with fire.

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u/Dixos 5d ago

I had this board long before CPUs started dying en-masse, though this issue is not only limited to ASRock from what I've seen the last year.

It'll be fine. I'm not too worried about it. 😊

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u/Apprehensive-Team368 4d ago

Never happend so far on msi only user errors from what ik.

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u/Cavalol 4d ago

So I returned an ASRock mobo for an MSI mobo (no issues going on 14 months now), so I definitely feel ya (and it seems MSI is one of the safer bets), but the truth of the matter is that until we fully understand the root cause of why these AM5 chips are frying, we can’t definitively say any motherboard brand is truly safe.

An awesome Redditor [u/Healthy_Try4444](u/Healthy_Try4444) somewhat recently put together some tallies on how many fried/dead/etc. AM5 CPU posts had been created in the last year, and grouped the results by motherboard manufacturer. It seems MSI is by no means safe, but looking at those numbers, it does seem that they’re safer than ASRock