Discussion Computer unbuilding: Pour one out for the 3900X, it's dead

[DrMrLordX]

My old 3900X build started acting weird and didn't survive a wipe/reinstall of the OS (Win10/11 will not install properly). I noticed a slow leak when the reservoir lost a few ounces of water over the course of a day. Still haven't identified where the leak is, no critical components seem to be getting wet but I haven't done a full teardown so who knows?

3900X, Radeon VII, Gigabyte Aorus Master, 16GB DDR4-3733 R.I.P.

Future build plans in shambles.

 

[bba-tcg]

My old 3900X build started acting weird and didn't survive a wipe/reinstall of the OS (Win10/11 will not install properly). I noticed a slow leak when the reservoir lost a few ounces of water over the course of a day. Still haven't identified where the leak is, no critical components seem to be getting wet but I haven't done a full teardown so who knows?

3900X, Radeon VII, Gigabyte Aorus Master, 16GB DDR4-3733 R.I.P.

Future build plans in shambles.

RIP. 😢

 

[DrMrLordX]

RIP. 😢

I might be able to bring it around by underclocking it and turning off the pumps, if only to exfiltrate some data from one of the drives in there. But its days as a daily drive appear to be numbered. Might have to run teh Lunix on there since Windoze simply will not install on any of the drives.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Gratitude for any future updates. I have been following Zen 2 deaths for a few years now. And reports keep coming in. Usually the 3600 since it was the most popular, but I've seen others too. Hence, I am curious if yours turns out to be external factors/ liquid damage, or the CPU degrading on its own.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Gratitude for any future updates. I have been following Zen 2 deaths for a few years now. And reports keep coming in. Usually the 3600 since it was the most popular, but I've seen others too. Hence, I am curious if yours turns out to be external factors/ liquid damage, or the CPU degrading on its own.

I have yet to identify the leak, and probably won't be able to diagnose the problem until this weekend. The CPU seems fine but the RAM has been iffy for a bit and so has the board. My guess is there's a leak somewhere on the board that got exacerbated by my cycling the pumps repeatedly in vain attempts to install Win11 and Win10. But it may also be pump seals or even the radiator leaking.

The board occasionally liked to clear CMOS (which is always a good time) and also adamantly refused to disable CSM mode, which is possibly one of the reasons why Win11 refused to install itself after the wipe (while CSM is active, SecureBoot can't be activated). The CPU was running like a champ, but there were other weird things going on with the system, like Steam refusing to load (at all) and Windows Defender filling up the definitions updates directory with 222 mb files every few minutes (which is why I wiped/reinstalled Windows in the first place, it was eating up my boot drive). The system was genuinely cursed.

It ran for over six years and it would have been seven years in July.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

My mistake, I thought the CPU was dead from reading the title. Looking forward to reading the post-mortem on the system.