ASRock Failures Face-to-Face: Motherboards, BIOS, & Burned 9800X3D CPUs

Let's hope that GN's intervention will move things in the right direction.

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Never needed tech jesus to inform me that yes my suspicions regarding ASROCK being a clue as to their quality hidden within the name all its missing is an additional S to the nomenclature that best describes the build quality of their products as being quite literally an ASSROCK dumped onto the consumer market. Similar ideology I have regarding Gigashyte as well.

They still have no clue what’s going on huh

I have an AsRock motherboard for the first time (got it prior to this issue being out in the open) and it is a AsRock TaiChi (lite) and the sound just won't work for mine.

At first it did, but I couldn't customise the sound..... then installed a realtec package, gave me some more options but very meh from what I used to have on my previous Aorus board, so uninstalled the lot. Went to reinstall AsRock drivers, no sound.

No matter what I do (uninstall, even safe mode driver removal with DDU) I can no longer use the drivers....

Other uses have had issues like this but straight off the bat without installing something else after..... the windows drivers work fine..... and are the only ones that work fine (that and the other realtec) but STILL the factory AsRock ones don't work.

Contacted AsRock, they instantly get back to me saying there is no issue after testing (dunno how long they tested for getting back to me so fast) and suggested it is a faulty on board sound card...... yeah no, otherwise the other two drivers wouldn't work, it is 100% software / driver related.

They just don't seem to read things properly or don't care but yeah not a great first impression with my first buy from AsRock.... my issue and obviously the CPU burning issue.

Big credit to asrock for giving the interview. I'll be passing on their boards until this is confirmed fixed, but I'll definitely consider them again in the future

Asrock has the best price/features. I wonder if that could be why asrock is finding the most heat. Could it be the chips themselves?

IDDQD OR IDGAF code same thing 😜

This is very concerning, considering I have an unopened box of an ASRock X870E Nova and a 9800X3D just waiting to be build that I purchased from months ago.

Is there any trustworthy mobo for the X3D anymore?

Hello, my name is "the computer James O'Keefe", would you like to talk to me today?

I had an Asrock motherboard and a 9800X3D sitting in my shopping cart, but I decided to let it sit for 48 hours before making a decision.

Holy, shit.

Thanks Steve!

@gamersnexus Before I watched the video yesterday, I was on 3.20, happy as a clam, afterwards I flashed 3.25 just to protect myself. Now I can’t get it to post 😢

So the translation for "i went over to an exhibitor and asked for their badge" in laymen terms is "i went over to their competitor and told them what was going on, they saw the opportunity to undermine their competition"

Been a while since I've had to flash mainboard firmware.

Don't you need the cpu in the mainboard so you can select the firmware to flash? Do these issues only arise under moderate cpu load, so bios screen is still safe?

I’m sure it has something to do with CPB and PBO. Those AMD features are completely broken and unstable. My best advice to people is that to buy a Zen4 CPU, preferably a ryzen 9 7900x which is at 4.7ghz base clock and that is plenty of speed for both gaming and professional works. You don’t need X3D and definitely nobody needs an X3D that is completely a snake oil salesman kind of thing. Just buy a CPU with high base clock speed and disable both PBO and CPB, those features are not optimized very well and CPB boost your speed at random times even if it is not under heavy load and even why your PC is at Idle with no programs running.

Why is it predominantly ASRock?

Thanks Steve. Excellent journalism in an era when most have forgotten how

You're going to have really bad social credit after this Steve :D

I have a asrock b650 steel legend wifi + 9800x3d no issues so far.

"They were a little bit panicked." Understatement of 2025 right there.

The guys at Digital Foundry are shilling, and are acting baffled of what you guys and Gamer Nexus saying about Nvidia. They said specifically that GN is damaging relationship, it's so obvious they don't want to get on their bad side.

the duality of tech company:
[Oh hey it's Steve]
[Oh no it's Steve]

Great interview Steve, you remained tactful and respectful (no tabloid TV here!) but still managed to challenge him and get some awkward non-answers without going to town on him.

I'd have liked to see him be a little more proactive with the learning points, especially pro-active communication but fair play, the boss put himself and not his people in the firing line.

Honestly doesn't feel like much has changed internally from when I last used one of their boards in 2013. Back then there was an issue with the ground plane (Or something related), on there z87 boards. After a month of back and forth, support eventually ghosted me. To their credit, they did ship me 3 separate boards, for free, but the promise to swap for a different model never happened. Support didn't have the tools on hand to test, couldn't replicate the issue, and seemed to think it was one of the other components, despite me swapping literally every other part. Only replacing the board with a different brand removed the issue.

Thanks asrock

Props to the VP for being gracious

Is it just me, or has MSI gone a suspiciously long amount of time without newsworthy hardware issues? (looking suspiciously at my MSI board)

haha i'm in danger

Any issues with the 9900x? I'm running a x870 f mobo

"Our D&D dice, Especially the coils & snowflake ones". Thanks Steve
One question, what's the dice version that's NOT "Special"? Is that the one without an object embedded it in the middle, not seen one of those on the store, or maybe a melted 12VHP pin would be more appropriate to represent Nvidia's LLM obsession.

pads are very close each other in tight space like that...its why intel don't have issues like that when USB pad should not be this close wtih ground or else the whole thing can easily be shorted by USB 5v over VSS ground pin that short entire board would resulted 2 ways during memory training ,longer boot that seem get stuck boot due to USB thumb drive got ground wire short would either result damage to thumb drives or pin from cpu ?? then you have sleep issue when folks do have issue with wake the computer due pin no longer have ways to communicate is why on linux community never get to work due to driver issue or pin got lock up in voltage. It seems AMD don't have answer to that problem with linux users when it requires AMD motherboard driver firmware that only made for windows systems since it shares with ARGB sense pins when go to sleep it shuts fans, argb lights but memory argb stay on meaning there is 5v gonna , but when waking up..That 5v should not interfere with 12v you gonna have serious problems that it.had to make sure voltage resented digitally...yes its digitally signal that get told by driver ...is why using linux without driver is very dangerous when it ever get to sleep...it resulted fans speed up due to 12v passing through sleep pin that resulted fan no longer reset to correct speed. Then other issue with PBO...specially EDC levels are too high due to VRMs and users set it by error on values wrong is too high when PBO engage is why i never set it on to begin with...i do it manual OC with lower voltage that i know what correct values by spec. All this been issue within same socket amd don't want to fix and address after this silence from 2 gen so far...am5 is bad socket for that size shouldn't be all this pack in small space...amd should know better as intel does...always spread contact pads and avoid contact pins accidentally have connection on other pads that shouldn't be sharing with. This resulted the burn marks always, this is just tip of iceberg that will get wake up calls not just asrock discovery amd flaws on their socket and cpu, it affect all board vendors later on when this becoming more frequently now. AMD gonna have to remake entire socket again for zen6 so it won't happen again the same mistake twice so far. All these should not be controlled by software to save money for amd...it should be controlled onboard IC on their cpu die is hardware controlled sleep, wake, and ARGB sense hardware to know when computer is in sleep to detect voltage and wake up on its owned without software telling the voltage should be when built in IC should do itself..its why intel have it on the back of their phyiscal IC chip with all caps around it...Linux barely got source code from AMD to get sleep and wake correclty controlled by module for linux 6.15 kernel that has to be loaded by default i2c_dev during boot of their distro while windows users don't have this issue when they using amd motherboard driver that controlled ARGB and fans anyway by vendor choice or opengarb for windows

Head over to the asrock subreddit to watch 9800x3ds explode in real time even with the new bios update!

Why cant you buy anything nowadays without getting screwed later on. Quality is supposed to go up not down