Big problem with system

Lee Charles · 19 Mar 2026 at 23:29

hello all.

A few hours ago I was watching YouTube and my system shutdown and a loud noise came through my speakers It was a weird sound and noticed my ram sticks RGB turned off so I tried turning the system back on and the fans would spin but wouldn't boot up I have tried taking the ram out and using a just a single stick at a time in each dim slot but did nothing. I have also tried a different PSU and still nothing and took out the gpu and tried using the igpu but no joy.

9800X3D
asus prime x870-p WIFI
32GB Gskill 60
9070xt

Purgatory · 20 Mar 2026 at 00:15

Lee Charles said:
hello all.

A few hours ago I was watching YouTube and my system shutdown and a loud noise came through my speakers It was a weird sound and noticed my ram sticks RGB turned off so I tried turning the system back on and the fans would spin but wouldn't boot up I have tried taking the ram out and using a just a single stick at a time in each dim slot but did nothing. I have also tried a different PSU and still nothing and took out the gpu and tried using the igpu but no joy.

9800X3D
asus prime x870-p WIFI
32GB Gskill 60
9070xt

Take out the cpu and look for damage and look for discoloured pads and if there is any damage to the motherboard cpu socket as these cpus have known issues of burning up on certain motherboards. A well known issue if you google it.

Lee Charles · 20 Mar 2026 at 00:21

Purgatory said:
Take out the cpu and look for damage and look for discoloured pads and if there is any damage to the motherboard cpu socket as these cpus have known issues of burning up on certain motherboards. A well known issue if you google it.

I’ve had a look and can’t see any damage on the cpu and socket. Thanks for the reply

G J · 20 Mar 2026 at 01:00

I was going to ask if there was any debug LED lights showing then I had a quick check but it seems there is none on a x870 motherboard....

It's proberly either the motherboard or CPU, this is how some systems die in the AsRock sub reddit when the motherboard kills the CPU/ or the its the CPU who knows... as it either does not wake up from sleep and the CPU is dead or people are just gaming/ watching Youtube and you get the situation that you have described.

Some links from reddit in the spoilers from people that have had the CPU die like yours.

I think my 9800X3D just died.

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theforce · 20 Mar 2026 at 03:41

Always nice to have a motherboard speaker lying around.

Lee Charles · 20 Mar 2026 at 07:56

Yeah It looks like my CPU have died. I will be calling ocuk this morning to sort out RMA hopefully they will ask me to send back the mobo and ram as well just In case It's something else

Lee Charles · 20 Mar 2026 at 10:03

OCUK have arranged collection to test what’s at fault

eeii · 21 Mar 2026 at 12:08

Lee Charles said:
OCUK have arranged collection to test what’s at fault

Let us know how you get on

Lee Charles · 22 Mar 2026 at 13:05

eeii said:
Let us know how you get on

Will do. They said it will take up to 5 working days and whatever is at fault they will replace so hopefully I’ll get my system back up and running by the end of next week

darkblade · 23 Mar 2026 at 22:57

Lee Charles said:
Will do. They said it will take up to 5 working days and whatever is at fault they will replace so hopefully I’ll get my system back up and running by the end of next week

That's a pretty good turn around to be fair. How long have you had the system?

Lee Charles · 24 Mar 2026 at 12:44

darkblade said:
That's a pretty good turn around to be fair. How long have you had the system?

I bought the components last June

Lee Charles · 24 Mar 2026 at 17:11

Hello guys. OCUK have tested the components and found the motherboard and Ram at fault and the CPU is working fine. They have replaced the motherboard and memory and shipping it out today for delivery tomorrow. I’ve got to say this is probably the best service I’ve ever received thank you to the OCUK staff for doing this for me

Shaolin Chicken · 25 Mar 2026 at 07:11

Lee Charles said:
Hello guys. OCUK have tested the components and found the motherboard and Ram at fault and the CPU is working fine. They have replaced the motherboard and memory and shipping it out today for delivery tomorrow. I’ve got to say this is probably the best service I’ve ever received thank you to the OCUK staff for doing this for me

Great news, glad you got it sorted so quickly, Good luck with it all now.

Lee Charles · 25 Mar 2026 at 07:46

Shaolin Chicken said:
Great news, glad you got it sorted so quickly, Good luck with it all now.

Thank you mate

Blackwhite · 26 Mar 2026 at 09:31

AMD has to do something about this issue, as there are more and more Motherboards or CPUs dying these days

jigger · 26 Mar 2026 at 16:31

Blackwhite said:
AMD has to do something about this issue, as there are more and more Motherboards or CPUs dying these days

AMD don’t make motherboards, memory and the COUs are just fine.

Blackwhite · 26 Mar 2026 at 17:05

jigger said:
AMD don’t make motherboards, memory and the COUs are just fine.

I know that AMD doesn’t make motherboards, but the manufacturers that do work with AMD, and something is definitely wrong

jigger · 26 Mar 2026 at 17:24

Blackwhite said:
I know that AMD doesn’t make motherboards, but the manufacturers that do work with AMD, and something is definitely wrong

There’s nothing wrong with the processors and AMD can’t do much, if anything to fix random component failures as it’s simply out of AMDs hands.

Lee Charles · 27 Mar 2026 at 10:22

Hello guys. Thought I'd give an update. I've rebuilt the system and everything Is working great, I've left everything default except for EXPO In bios and not even going to update the bios because everything Is working fine

G J · 27 Mar 2026 at 11:48

Blackwhite said:
AMD has to do something about this issue, as there are more and more Motherboards or CPUs dying these days

Lucky for the OP it's not the usual motherboard kills CPU and the CPU get replaced and due to a lack of solution to the situation people place the replacement CPU back into motherboard and some end up with another dead CPU.

The people that are aware pretty much get lumbered with a paper weight motherboard that some have been able to return them for another brand motherboard many have to pay out of their own pocket for a motherboard to function properly. These people also get gaslit that its not a problem, some get accused of making it up and the whole let me extrapolate data from a German retailer to dismiss it is well...

Blackwhite said:
I know that AMD doesn’t make motherboards, but the manufacturers that do work with AMD, and something is definitely wrong

They are aware of this but its been 18 months since this first started happening and still no end to it as I'm seeing way more AMD issues than Intel but the thing for me is the eye opener is that theres so much overlap now between this situation and what happened with Intel but the reaction is completely different speaks volumes that many people are not to be trusted.