Crumbs: ASRock finds 'debris' in X870 motherboard accused of toasting AMD Ryzen CPU

ASRock X870 Steel Legend WiFi motherboard — (Image credit: ASRock)

"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 the problem might be, somewhat suitably, crumbs.

It seems one of the problematic X870 motherboards from the Reddit post we mentioned last time around has made its way back to ASRock for analysis. The results weren't quite what we might have expected.

To quote the operative passage from the ASRock blog post in full, "A retrieved motherboard was in a system where the CPU showed burn damage. When inspecting this motherboard, we found that the motherboard does not have obvious damage nor burn marks around the VRM area. Measurements of the motherboard are also within spec. After cleaning and removing debris from the CPU socket, without further repair, the motherboard can boot up successfully with original onboard BIOS. It also passed long-term stress tests."

Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.

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