At the beginning of this month, ASRock announced that it was working on a solution for issues affecting AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs on its AM5 motherboards. Some processors reportedly stop working after a period of use, and ASRock described the situation as boot problems with some CPUs. After two weeks of a beta BIOS available for certain models, the company released the stable BIOS version 4.10 yesterday. However, it appears that this update does not fully solve the problem.
BIOS 4.10 Fails to Resolve Ryzen 9000 Boot Issues
According to Tech YES City, the issue has been reproduced on a second AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processor without X3D. The CPU stopped functioning after three to four months of use on an ASRock X870 Steel Legend Wi-Fi motherboard. An attempt was made to update the BIOS to see if the processor could be restored, but it was unsuccessful. The same Ryzen 9 9950X also failed to work on other motherboard models.
This suggests that ASRock’s idea of reviving affected CPUs through a BIOS update may not work, and that the failure can leave the processor permanently unusable. Some rumors claim that a defective batch of CPUs could be responsible for these issues. However, Tech YES City states that the second faulty CPU came from a different source. Others believe the problem may lie with ASRock motherboards, especially since the failures often occur after the CPUs have been installed in one of their boards.
Some users have tried to intentionally reproduce the issue but have not been able to do so. In these cases, their CPUs continue to work normally on ASRock motherboards. In any case, updating to BIOS version 4.10 may help prevent the problem, although for users who have already been running one of these CPUs for some time, it may feel like a matter of luck whether the processor eventually stops responding and cannot be restored.
