Asrock confirms Ryzen 9000 failures caused by its BIOS settings, offers to fix motherboards

What just happened? Asrock has gone on record to confirm that it is solely responsible for the more than 108 Ryzen 9000 chips that have failed in the company's motherboards. An executive confirmed that the problem relates to Asrock's BIOS settings, and that it isn't an AMD issue. Earlier this week, YouTube channel Tech Yes City visited the Asrock booth at Computex to ask about the Ryzen 9000 failure problem on its boards. A rep said it was due to the Electric Design Current (EDC) and Thermal Design Current (TDC). Essentially, it was an amperage problem in the Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) settings. Asrock said these had been set too high for early CPU samples. In a later interview with Gamers Nexus host Stephen Burke, ASRock's VP of motherboards, Chris Lee, said the company has rolled out BIOS version 3.25, which alters the PBO settings in the hope of addressing the failing Ryzen 9000 problem. He added that Asrock had not seen any of its motherboards damaged as a result of the orig ... Read full article.