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Asrock motherboards damaged by RAM warning sticker | PCWorld
You’d think that a company selling motherboards directly to desktop PC builders would have a little bit of faith that those users can assemble a PC. Apparently, that’s not the case for Asrock, at least on some variants of its high-end motherboards for the new AMD AM5 socket. Several Reddit users opened their X670E motherboards to find a huge sticker covering the RAM DIMM slots, which in at least some cases has caused damage to the slots when the user removed it. According to the Reddit posts spotted by TechSpot, the sticker is ostensibly meant as a guide for installing the RAM.
Several users reported that the sticker tore when they removed it, leaving behind a sticky residue and an incredibly delicate cleanup job. Buyers ready to assemble brand new, screaming-fast Ryzen 7000 desktops with these very pricey motherboards were not amused. An official statement from Asrock says the company will accept exchanges on motherboards that have sticker residue on the RAM slots. It also says that an updated version of the BIOS solves the long initial boot problem, and thus new motherboards won’t come with the sticker.
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ASRock consumers sabotage their own mobos because they don't know how to remove a helpful sticker from their DIMM slots.
"When I saw the sticker about how to place the RAM, I screamed like a lil b-word and ripped it mostly off! Now there's sticky residue on my DIMM slots!"
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