this forums broke !

They obviously need to perform some database maintenance. If I were to hazard a guess, the Ryzen product launch has driven more traffic to the forums than they had scheduled for, so their timetable on when to perform maintenance is off. They probably only routinely maintain the forums every 3-6 months.

The forum server's RAID array had a bad a drive which was causing intermittent connections when the faulty drive was accessed. All should be well now. Even manufacturers internal servers can have drive failures 

twf85 wrote: They obviously need to perform some database maintenance. If I were to hazard a guess, the Ryzen product launch has driven more traffic to the forums than they had scheduled for, so their timetable on when to perform maintenance is off. They probably only routinely maintain the forums every 3-6 months. Or who knows, could be something else. Whatever the case may be, singling out Ryzen or ASRock is pretty poor form on your part. They know how it looks, and I'm sure they're working on rectifying it.

singling out ????????

excuse me did you miss the part where i said

JOKING ASIDE
this may imply to anyone that actually 'read it '
that i dont presume asrock to be using ryzen for its server IT WAS A JOKE
FORGIVE THE LACK OF SIMPLE SMILEY FACES TO INDICATE TO ANYONE NOT READING IT IN CONTEXT
but the broken forum broke the smiles i had entered hence the word 'tounge' etc in the text

now back to the point i wasnt joking about
and that was and still is
if the support forum is broken when a new asrock buyer logs on for support then that would be a very bad signal to send buyers
fortunately xalter one of the mods has indeed explained the issue and it would seem without the need to issue a telling off to myself because he seems to understand humour
thank you for reading this i hope fully......................

datonyb wrote: ok joking aside seriously guys what message does it give people log on here when they have something wrong with an asrock product to find the asrock support forum is also broken or badly impared what message does that give an end user ?Ouch

@twf85
to be honest im still not following your reasoning
as an example the quote you made from myself in most peoples eyes just DOSNT in any way appear
to pi55 in someones face
as stated above by another moderator it was a valid point
as far as you implication i just log on here to moan/complain i DO TAKE OFFENCE AT
i suggest you try a quick search at my 300 posts
and if you can come back with 1% of them being a complaint to asrock then id be very surprised
in fact id feel quite certain 80% of my posts are taking MY TIME unpaid to share any info and assistance i have learnt with this community and/or trying to resolve users issues

a fair few of them may have to be read in context for i am typically a cheeky british guy and my days are spent laughing joking and interacting with people face to face
over here we call it harmless banter
and  for that i will never apoligise
chin up old boy keep smiling

p.s. by the way this forum is running quite slow right at this present time
shall i moan ?