I have an Slot A Athlon 900MHz that was recently involved in an overheating of some sort. A friend who discovered it says it appeared to be the motherboard that overheated because of the foul smell ...

TL;DR: A Reddit user reported a burned AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and AM5 socket, likely due to installation error. The user experienced "00" postcodes, and ...

A few weeks ago, a user shared a case where an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU got burned. Further tests revealed that the issue happened due to an improper installation of the CPU, which caused damage to ...

"There's surely more to come from this story," I said back in February and sure enough ASRock has a new blog post addressing reports of toasted AMD Ryzen 9000-chips in X870 motherboards. It turns out ...

ASRock has issued a second update addressing boot-up and CPU damage issues on its AM5 motherboards. This time in a blog post, the board maker went the extra mile to prove its BIOS updates are not ...

Intel has been struggling with a major issue in its 13th- and 14th-generation Core CPUs for most of this year. Due to a production error, high voltages and temperatures led to crashes for users and ...

So here's an odd question. <br><br>I was cleaning my CPU off over the sink (big mistake) with alchohol and cotton swabs when it slipped out of my hand and landed in the bottom of the sink. The drop ...

A motherboard featured in a burned out CPU Reddit thread has been analyzed by its manufacturer, who says that the board has no obvious damage or burn marks, and that it just required a clean-up to get ...

TL;DR: An ASRock B850M Pro RS WiFi motherboard reportedly caused three Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU failures within four months, with each CPU dying faster than the last despite BIOS updates. Similar cases ...