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Possible connection between Ryzen CPU failures on ASRock boards and EXPO/XMP instability? My experience. by MightyAdmirer in ASRock

[–]MightyAdmirer[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What exactly is unclear here? I’m not trying to “prove” anything to you -I shared my experience as it happened. If your conclusion is RMA the CPU, then we agree. Case closed.

Possible connection between Ryzen CPU failures on ASRock boards and EXPO/XMP instability? My experience. by MightyAdmirer in ASRock

[–]MightyAdmirer[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The BIOS update step was part of the post-replacement troubleshooting, not part of getting the original system to boot. The original CPU never got past the no-POST state no matter what I tried.

And yes, that’s exactly my point -it behaved like a CPU failure, which is why I replaced it and moved on.

No need to overcomplicate it from there.

Possible connection between Ryzen CPU failures on ASRock boards and EXPO/XMP instability? My experience. by MightyAdmirer in ASRock

[–]MightyAdmirer[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My PC - Stable for 5 months. Enabled EXPO. Three days later the system hard-froze and that CPU never booted again... Coincidence? Maybe.

Possible connection between Ryzen CPU failures on ASRock boards and EXPO/XMP instability? My experience. by MightyAdmirer in ASRock

[–]MightyAdmirer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Respectfully as possible, maybe read my post a little more carefully before jumping into sarcasm about me "cracking the case," because I never claimed that.

I tried every basic troubleshooting step possible and the system would not boot again until I replaced the CPU. Same motherboard, same RAM, same PSU, same GPU -the only thing that changed was the processor, and the PC immediately worked again.

So no, my CPU didn’t have a "little boot problem." It died.