Three times the charm
After AMD replaced all three CPUs, Redditor finally decided to ditch the killer board.
A Reddit user claims one ASRock B850M Pro RS WiFi motherboard killed three Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs over roughly four months. According to the post, AMD resolved each CPU claim, but the same board stayed in the system long enough for replacement chips to fail as well.
It is true that ASRock is not the only brand involved in sudden Ryzen CPU deaths, as we recently covered an ASUS case where a user said an X870 board killed a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, then later the replacement Ryzen 7 9850X3D as well. Even so, ASRock still appears in a disproportionate share of these reports, and the brand continues to dominate community tracking threads and our own recent coverage of Ryzen 9000 no-POST and dead CPU claims.
The latest post from Redditor “notmember” is the first case where one board killed three CPUs, though.
Source: Reddit
ASRock has already responded with internal reviews and multiple BIOS updates, including a February statement tied to AGESA 1.3.0.0a that was supposed to address some no-boot scenarios on affected AM5 systems. That did not end the complaints. Just days ago, we covered three more dead Ryzen 7 9800X3D reports on ASRock boards allegedly running BIOS 4.10, which suggests newer firmware has not fully closed the issue.
At this point, one board allegedly taking out three CPUs sounds absurd, even in a story that has already produced too many similar reports. There may still be more than one cause here, and some readers continue to suspect a bad CPU batch or a broader AM5 issue that is not exclusive to ASRock.
VideoCardz sent an inquiry to ASRock in regard to the last case (three dead 9800X3D CPUs on the latest BIOS). The company never responded to our email.
Source: Reddit
