Reddit fans flooded Reddit last week with complaints that AMD’s Ryzen 7000 line of processors were failing right in the process. Moreover, what is most unpleasant, due to overheating, not only the processor itself was damaged, but also the contact pad of the motherboard socket, so that the happy owners lost two of the most important components of their system at once.
Complaints are especially often received on the AMD Ryzen 7800X3D model, which, due to elevated temperatures, “blew out” part of the processor pad. Enthusiasts soon discovered that the problem lies in the unfinished BIOS, the update of which was released today by ASUS.
Following it, other large companies will release similar updates, but the situation itself is a little scary.
The company explained that the new generation processor from AMD consumes too much power, and the BIOS did not have a limit on the voltage limit. As a result, as the load increased, the processor increased the consumed voltage, which led to irreversible damage to the already fragile structure.
Developers from ASUS have released an update for the EFI component, which contains special mechanisms that control the temperature of the processor – this is necessary both to protect the motherboard itself and for adequate processor operation. In previous BIOS builds, core voltage control was implemented in manual mode, which, of course, is not very convenient.
It is likely that other major motherboard manufacturers will also release updates for their BIOS soon, since the same MSI, GIGABYTE or ASRock also has manual voltage management, which means they are also at risk.
At the same time, it is not entirely clear to users at the moment who is ultimately to blame for overheating and failure of quite expensive chips, because it was not the BIOS itself that led to overheating, but the ability of the processor to overclock the cores, increasing the voltage to excessively high levels. We can only hope that AMD and partner companies will resolve this issue and reimburse users for losses.