A Reddit user reported an unusual and unpleasant situation: over several months, three AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors installed on the same ASRock B850M PRO RS WiFi motherboard failed.
According to the user with the nickname u/notmember, the system was assembled in January 2025. The first processor stopped working in November — the CPU and DRAM indicators lit up on the board. After processing the warranty, he received a replacement from AMD, but the second chip failed after only a couple of months with similar symptoms.
The situation repeated itself for the third time: the new processor worked for less than a month, after which the system stopped displaying an image, and the BOOT indicator lit up on the board. The user noted that with each replacement, the processors "died" faster, which led him to suspect a malfunction in the motherboard itself.
It is noteworthy that the problem is unlikely to be related to outdated firmware: the owner regularly updated the BIOS. The first processor worked on version 3.50, the second on 4.03, and the third on beta version 4.07, which was supposed to fix compatibility issues thanks to the AGESA 1.3.0.0a microcode. However, even this update did not help prevent the failure.