Another user reported a damaged AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU and this time we didn't see it happening on the ASRock 800-series motherboards.
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D rendered dead on X870E Tomahawk WiFi While the Socket Remains Perfectly Fine and Working
We have extensively covered issues with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and there have been a couple of cases related to CPU damage in the past few weeks. Last month, a user suffered quite a good amount of damage to his Ryzen 9800X3D in the VDDCR area when used on an ASRock X870E motherboard and today, it's the MSI X870E Tomahawk Wi-Fi, which is said to be the culprit.
This is what the user claims, as he notified in a Reddit post of such an issue a few months back. The Reddit user u/Realistic_Age_718 today posted that all he did was turn on AMD EXPO, which is a feature that helps users increase their memory clock speed at tighter timings. Following this, his system refused to boot and showed the '00' postcode on the Error Code reader.
Even after the BIOS flashback to "E6E59AMSI.A10" (built date 23rd Dec 2024), the problem persisted, and it turned out that his AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D got damaged somewhere in the middle.
You can see a slight bulge in the center, which indicates permanent damage to the CPU, which is why the system no longer boots up. Surprisingly, the motherboard took almost no literal damage and all the pins are as fine as new.
While some reports indicate that the Ryzen 9800X3D burning problem is mostly common on ASRock X870/X870E motherboards, some say it's more common on the MSI X870/X870E models. The exact issue of this recent incident is yet to be investigated, but it is highly concerning if the issue is related to either the BIOS or spiking voltage supply.
One would wonder if the user installed it the right way and the user did confirm that there was no user error and his system was working completely fine before turning the EXPO on. In some cases, the damage was due to user error, but not every case points to the same. In this case, the user was able to successfully boot the system with a Ryzen 8500G.
While ASRock rolled out its latest 3.20 Beta BIOS a few weeks ago to address the same issue, it looks like MSI might be next in the queue.
News Source: Reddit
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