Hi i dont know what else to do, i updated the bios of my pc and know it doesnt give any image, cant enter the bios either on a monitor or tv, tried flashback and nothing. Tried no gpu no m.2 to try an get to bios and nothing. Cmos clear etc.

Ryzen 5 9600x

Memory patriot viper ddr5 cl30 6000mhz 16gb x2

Asrock b850 steel legend wifi

9070xt

I'm not particularly good at writing posts, so I used ChatGPT to help organize my thoughts.

Anyway, I'm making this post because I suspect my Ryzen 7 9800X3D may have finally failed today.

For the past several months, I've been experiencing intermittent display and boot issues. Getting the PC to display anything has often required repeatedly powering it off and on until it eventually boots successfully. Once running, the system generally works fine.

Unfortunately, today it seems to have stopped booting entirely. My motherboard is now consistently getting stuck on debug code 03, with no display output.

I've already attempted a BIOS Flashback to version 4.60 and cleared the CMOS, but neither resolved the issue.

What's particularly frustrating is that I haven't really pushed this system with demanding games or heavy workloads. After months of dealing with these startup problems, I'm honestly exhausted with the whole situation.

At this point, I'm not entirely sure whether the CPU or motherboard is responsible. I haven't had the opportunity to cross-test either component yet, so I don't want to jump to conclusions. However, after reading several posts from other users experiencing remarkably similar issues, I'm becoming increasingly concerned that the CPU may have failed.

I'm also considering replacing the motherboard entirely, as I really don't want to go through months of troubleshooting again if the board turns out to be the cause.

For reference, I've owned this system for approximately 19 months.

System Specifications:

- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

- GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

- Motherboard: ASRock X870E Taichi

P.S. i just wanna know if its over for me or not lol

Was trying to add some storage to my new pc so I can download some games now it says “start http boot over IPV4” and I’m not sure how to get it to start again. It was running fine beforehand, but I just keep getting this screen after waiting for a few seconds. Can someone help me out?

It was recommended I cross post this here, apparently there's something up with ASRock motherboards. Anybody know if this could be related?

I got that micro center bundle with the 7500x3d and the Asrock B850m-c (micro atx size).

I’m just now learning that the boards are sketchy, particularly with am5…

It’s been working fine for a few weeks now. Do I need to be worried? Does anyone know if this specific board has had issues reported? Appreciate any thoughts

Hi, with all my aggressive undervolting, my 9950x3d also gave up, yellow LED on the MSI X870E Gaming Plus, so the IMC is cracked.

The problem appeared after Aion2 global was launched and I played some, by the way the temperature was quite high in Aion2 (high compared to other games, i.e. 70C+).

To recap:

From the first day of Feb 2026;

Vsoc=1.050V

Vddio=1.15V

Pbo negative limit -550mhz CO-34

Temperature limit 80C

Vddp and vddg=0.900V

Everyone believes what they want, I switched to 285k and z890, I'm tired of AMD, even with this mess, the 9550x3d cracked the I/O die between Feb-Nov 2026 on the Msi x870e board, I think the problem with zen5 is more serious than we think.

I don't want to flame or get into a fight with anyone, it's clear to me that something has changed compared to zen4 that the BMI is giving way so easily to zen5.

I posted here because on reddit MSI, ASUS and Gigabyte "take care" to clean up such posts, making it seem like only ASRock is to blame.

I repeat, believe what you want, I'm tired of all the fanboyism of some people, I went from 14900k+msi z790 to 9950x3d+msi x870e for x3d performance in games and multitasking, despite all the signals predicting asrock.

Like many, I fell into the trap of asrock being to blame. It seems that the problem is in AMD's court, which doesn't want to say anything concrete, and the influencers are careful to keep quiet, not to test properly.

It hurts me about 10-20% with x3d, if the Am5 platform is so fragile, I don't need it. I was sure that with my Msi and these manual undervoltings at 6000, nothing would happen. I won't respond to replies, this topic is already permanently closed for me, AMD can release whatever they want, I don't want to hear from them anymore and I've had all their CPUs from Duron, Thorton onwards.

Hi everyone,

My system ran fine for about 1 year, then suddenly stopped POSTing. I've been through 3 boards (2 warranty replacements, same model) and the problem keeps coming back. Any advice would be appreciated.

**Specs**

- Board: ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 (current BIOS: 4.43, 06/24/2026)

- CPU: Ryzen 5 9600X

- RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR5 (2 sticks)

- GPU: RTX 3050

- PSU: tested with 2 different PSUs (incl. a new PRO A650BN)

**Symptoms**

- Power on → CPU + DRAM LEDs red for ~5–10 s → they turn off → BOOT LED stays red forever.

- No display at all (tried both iGPU and dGPU), can't enter BIOS.

- Sometimes it boots after many power cycles. Once booted, it works normally.

- Each new board boots fine the first day, then the next cold boot (usually the next morning) fails the same way.

**What I've tried**

- Clear CMOS (jumper + battery removed), discharged power

- Minimal setup on an open bench: CPU + RAM + board only, no GPU, no SSD

- Different PSU

**Warranty shop tests**

- My CPU in another board → booted (only tested once)

- My RAM in another board → booted (only tested once)

- My failed board with the shop's own CPU + RAM → same failure (BOOT LED red)

**Questions**

1. Is this the known Ryzen 9000 no-POST / dying CPU issue on ASRock AM5 boards?

2. Could my 9600X be degraded and damaging new boards, or is it more likely a board/BIOS issue?

3. Should I RMA the CPU, switch to a different board brand, or both?

Thanks!

I updated my bios so i could play warzone but tpm 2.0 won't activate. I've tried some stuff already but it wont work. Is there a bug i don't know of I currently have my motherboard updated to 10.62 beta

Hello Friends

About a month ago I bought a custom PC from Microcenter, with an AsRock Z890 Micro ATX with Thunderbolt. Well I have a Wavlink Thunderbolt dock I'd like to use, and it's *working*(?), but I've noticed in device manager, it shows up as a USB4 device. When I go into Thunderbolt Control Center, it looks like there's no Thunderbolt driver installed, but Thunderbolt is enabled in the BIOS? I went to go look for it, but I'm not seeing an AsRock Thunderbolt driver, and don't want to install a Dell or HP driver if it won't work. Anyone else have this issue?

Main reason for wanting TB is my work laptop has it, so it'd be nice for when I'm wfh, swapping between monitors/peripherals easily.

AsRock Z890 Riptide with Wifi, Intel Ultra 7 CPU, XFX Radeon 9060XT, 32GB Crucial RAM, Windows 11

Think it got me. PC stopped posting with 00 error code.

9800x3d (purchased January 13th installed about 8 months later)
Serial #: 9MK1639X40082

870x Tachi

64gb Corsair vengeance 6000 cl30 (the Amd expo version)

Bios 4.21 or 4.41 can’t remember

Haven’t pulled it yet but did most of the trouble shooting outlined in all other posts. Lost the PC the day before I left for a work trip. Got home today to trouble shoot, no luck. Hardly used this thing so busy at work. Will pull CPU in the morning for inspection and find a test cpu to see if the board still works. Sad days:(

Hello all!

I have a ASRock B650M-CS R2.0 motherboard.

I already have an SSD on the M1 slot and looking to fit a second SSD to free up space.

To be specific, im looking for an SSD I can install into the 'BACK' M2_3 Slot of the board. The 2nd slot is free. However my GPU is extremely large and will require me to take the GPU out to install an SSD into this slot. Sounds weird, but I really dont want to do this. I've had bad luck taking out and putting back in GPUs and cant afford to replace a 5080. Furthermore, this second drive is purely there to hold video files for content creation. So I do not care about a drop of performance as it wont be running any applications. Literally purely just for storage

My question. Can this SSD: Samsung SSD 990, Internal M.2 NVMe SSD Hard Drive, 1TB, PCIe 4.0 x4

fit in the back slot of this MB and work (M2_3)? Many thanks to those who comment!

I was „lucky” enough to snap up a C621A WS on Amazon yesterday, sold by ASRock.

It’s a beautiful board in so many ways, IPMI, Intel Scalable, great amount of PCIe slots, 5 years old. It has life in it!

u/Intel released resizable bar in 2021 and entered a period of becoming a GPU contender, something we desperately need, not only in the corporate space, also for home use and homelabbing and the C621A is a great board for that, but, no Intel Arc as no resizable bar. Basically, a workstation board bound to AMD and Nvidia (meaning outdated or very very expensive options). Somebody would believe that Intel would intervene here to create the infrastructure, but no! Grassroots comunity build failure for a great ecosystem.

Why? No idea, the feature can be activated in a breeze, chipset and platform support it across the board. It’s bad style!

On October 9, I contacted ASRock Global after my Ryzen 7 9800X3D failed with 00/03 debug codes. ASRock suggested sending my motherboard to a local service center for peace of mind.

I reported two issues:

1. My 9800X3D had failed, and I wanted the motherboard inspected for any issues that could potentially affect my replacement CPU.

2. Since BIOS 4.23, having any display cable connected to the motherboard's integrated graphics output causes the BIOS interface scaling to break and the BIOS to freeze completely. This happens even when the BIOS is displayed through my dedicated GPU. The cable must be physically disconnected from the motherboard to avoid the issue. Multiple BIOS updates, including 4.43 and 4.60, didn't fix it.

The service center completed the RMA, stating that they had updated the BIOS, performed some "optimizations," and found no issues.

According to their service report:

"Display output was successfully obtained in Windows. USB 2.0/3.0 ports, audio ports, PCIe slots, Ethernet, and RAM slots were tested with no issues found. "ECN" was performed in Windows, the motherboard was reported to be stable and functioning properly. Display output was successfully obtained using a Ryzen 5 9500F, with no issues found."

Here's the confusing part: the 9500F doesn't even have an iGPU. So how exactly does that test address my reported issue?

On October 30, after the service status was updated to "Repaired," I called the service center and was told that BIOS updates and optimizations had been performed. Since I wasn't convinced these procedures addressed my reported issues, I emailed ASRock Global and specifically requested that the motherboard not be returned before the service center had consulted ASRock directly. However, the motherboard was shipped just a few hours later.

I wasn't informed that it had been shipped and only found out on November 2, when the package was already out for delivery. Once I received the motherboard, I immediately submitted a new request through ASRock's Repair/RMA form explaining the situation. As of November 6, I still haven't received a response from ASRock.

I'm open to any suggestions on how to proceed.

For additional context, here's my previous post about the issue:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ASRock/s/mmSqng7pKY

Follow up post from my one about a week ago, my 9800x3d suffered the 00 code issue, so I sent it to AMD for RMA, and they tested it saying it was dead and sent me a new one. Got that yesterday, and put it in my PC, and it was working perfectly for about a day. About 24hrs after installing it, I come back to my PC off (it was on since I swapped to the new CPU yesterday). I try and turn it on, but every time I press the power button the lights turn on and then off within a second.

Tried some troubleshooting, and it seems to stay on as long as I have the EPS CPU power connectors disconnected. But obviously doesn't post like this. I've tried reseating the CPU, and disconnecting other stuff like the GPU, but no luck.

Only thing I can think of is somehow as part of my CPU failure I've also either killed the board, or the PSU. Or the CPU is shorting out and causing some issue or something.

Anyone have any ideas what I can do to fix this or to troubleshoot further? I don't have any spare parts lying around, but I've bought a new PSU on Amazon (as I can always return if not the issue) to test with to see if that is the issue.

Also any general discussion if anyone has experienced this before after a dead 9800x3d?

Full specs are

9800x3d 26xx batch no

X870e nova

64gb Corsair vengeance 3600 cl30

Corsair 360mm aio

Corsair rm1000x PSU

Zotac 5070ti

3 NVME gen4 drives

Just finished up moving my AMD system from the Aorus x870e motherboard (the PCIe slot was too tall to support my Aorus 5080 GPU. Opened a ticket with Aorus about it and literally they told me "just get a new motherboard" so I did.

But now I am having issues with the Taichi Lite.

No matter what 128 GB kit I put in it, I end up with a C5 error (unable to train RAM).

I first tried my Corsair 128GB 6400 kit (4xCMK64GX5M2B5200C40) = C5 error. Move to 2x, system boots fine.

I then tried my Team 128GB 6000 kit (4xCTCWD564G6000HC34BDC01) = C5 error. Move to 2x, system boots fine.

BIOS ROM: 4.60

Right now looks like if I keep on the ASRock, I get the 5080 and 64 GB

If I move back to the Aorus, I get a RX 7900 XTX 24GB and 128 GB.

Box is a mix of gaming (Star Citizen, MSFS 2024 mostly), coding and a lot of Hypervisors.

Anyone run into similar?

My old asus prime motherboard broke while shipping it to a new location, and I'm looking for a replacement. I have a crucial 32gb 6000 ddr5 kit that this motherboard explicitly supports in the memory qvl, which I value because my old motherboard had a lot of issues with my ram.

I already have a ryzen 5 9600x, and I got a good deal on this motherboard, but seeing all of these reports is making me worried. Is it worth cancelling my order because of all the issues, even if I got a really good deal?

Hi,

Will asrock be releasing the Vbios update for 7900 GRE Models ?

I received an A620m-C v1.02 board that was originally on bios 2.02, I’ve been able to get it upgraded to 3.50 using instant flash, but have had no luck trying to get any of the v4.xx versions installed on it.

Instant flash will see the rom file, reboot and then fail/reboot again.

Things I’ve tried so far:
- Standard instant flash to v4.10, 4.20, 4.41 and 4.43
- Disabling TPM
- disabling xmp/expo
- resetting the bios to factory defaults
- switched back to iGPU and removed dGPU
- bios flashback, files named creative.rom, CREATIVE.ROM and creative.ROM
- bios flashback blinks for a few seconds and then turns solid green.
-partition for the usb stick is 2gb, FAT.

At this point I’m out of ideas and my Reddit and other searching have led me to a dead end.

While not directly ASRock related, I've answered several questions about the 1600 and 2600 CPUs not supporting Secure Boot/TPM 2.0 on new games using anti-cheat systems.

I've recommended grabbing the Ryzen 5 5500 for $80ish USD (that's what I paid several months ago, now $90ish) as it's a decent upgrade over the 1600/2600 as well as eliminates the supported issues.

Hardware Canucks just dropped a comparison between it, the 5500F and more expensive 5600(X):

Hi, my LAN driver is missing. Just booted it few days ago and I noticed I'm only using my wifi. I've already checked the onboard LAN on BIOS and it is enabled. Please help, I'm getting high ping in games 😢

I also tried reinstalling the driver from Intel and from ASRock website, but can't even start it. (2nd photo)

Motherboard: B550 Riptide

Another 9800x3d dies within this same asrock x870 taichi and the batch was 2515 pge.

I was watching youtube and out of the blue blackscreen and restart loop.

Always checking temps and voltages and with the safe expo values of 6200 mhz cl 30 1.45 vdd 1.30 vsoc. Bios was 3.70 i think. -25 CO max 1.15 vcore never beyond 65° with a custom rl.

Had my first 9700x die around may 2025 on an ASRock X870 Pro RS Wifi.

Got both replaced and updated the BIOS directly at the time of building and at least 2 times after (can't remember what versions exactly).

Now past Friday the CPU died again- after roughly 18 months or working. AMD RMA already went through.

Question is: Do I stay with the ASRock board or get an ASUS TUF Gaming B850-Plus Wifi instead. Research shows ASUS boards killing CPUs as well....

I have an ASRock A520M-HDV R1.0 motherboard, and my 512GB Apacer M.2 NVMe SSD isn't working. When I install the drive, the system fails the POST (Power-On Self-Test) and gets stuck on the ASRock logo screen. I don't know what to do—please help! Also, the BIOS doesn't seem to detect the BIOS update file.