Hi everyone,
I have been using a Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming for a little over 3 years now (the board was bought on the 4th July 2021). I put a Ryzen 9 5950X B0 in it, a be Quiet! Dark Rock TF2 cooler, 4x 16GB sticks of Corsair DDR4-3200 XMP RAM (which I am aware has a poorer reputation these days), a PowerColor RX 6800XT Red Devil, Cooler Master V1000 Platinum 2019 PSU, Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD, and some other storage devices. Windows 10 Pro 64-bit is installed on the Samsung M.2 SSD. The system is running Beta BIOS 10.08. When I bought the board, it was running BIOS 5.80, so it has been upgraded through several BIOS versions.
Unfortunately, I have run into a serious booting issue that seems to manifest when 'Core Performance Boost' under 'Advanced > AMD CBS > Zen Common Options' is set to Auto, which it is by default. The symptoms are that the board POSTs successfully, but then hangs and outputs a black screen when it gets about halfway through booting Windows 10, right when the dots are spinning round in the circle low down on the screen. The system's fans also spin up to 100% RPM when this happens.
When I disable Core Performance Boost, the issue goes away completely but I lose all boost clocks above the 3.4GHz base clock of the CPU.
I did catch it happening once when booting from the Ubuntu 24.04 SATA SSD as well.
This happens even if XMP is off on the RAM, running it at baseline 2133MHz, and also still happens if I use a single stick of different DDR4-2400 in the A2 DIMM slot, which ASRock TSD requested I do. I have also done a fresh install of Windows 10 and obviously, the issue still happens. It also happens whether PBO is set to auto or something different.
I am often away from home at the moment due to some personal circumstances, so I have limited time to test and swap parts around for the foreseeable future. I got the idea of turning Core Performance Boost off from /u/x370issue on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ASRock/comments/v5ouh9/comment/ibc7g15/" rel="nofollow - https://www.reddit.com/r/ASRock/comments/v5ouh9/comment/ibc7g15/
Some old pictures of the board and system are here as evidence: https://imgur.com/a/fatal1ty-x370-professional-gaming-5950x-pictures-jh2MTzL" rel="nofollow - https://imgur.com/a/fatal1ty-x370-professional-gaming-5950x-pictures-jh2MTzL
Thanks for reading and responding.
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