Status Access Violation issues

FYI.

I also found news from Intel about instability issues with unlocked K-series chips due to motherboard makers pushing the envelope: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/intel-releases-final-statement-on-cpu-instability-makes-things-worse

I do have a K-series chip (13900K) so it's possible it may be this. Not sure what others have, or if there are other instability things going on.

m

Oh dang. That's frustrating to hear.

See my other post. Perhaps there's some other motherboard/BIOS settings that are being pushed too hard?

m

Mine was 14900K - If you can RMA that chip do it!

13th & 14th Gen seems to be one of the worst silicone lotteries...

And then motherboard manufacturers pushed the limits (with Intel's blessing until the problems started).

I believe this has caused silicone degradation to appear rapidly on some of these chips which can't fixed by some bios tweaks and will only get worse over time.

If you can beg, borrow or steal a new chip to test you may find all your weird issues magically disappear.

Intel sent me a new chip and like magic everything runs as expected even under 'ASUS optimised' bios profiles (I'm running Intel performance profile now as I don't want the hassle of tearing down this hard line water cooled system again to RMA.

I have reached out to Intel to try and find out what was wrong with the old chip but have not received a response so far.

Don't be me, don't waste countless hours troubleshooting RAM (2x48GB is a 17hour test...), don't swap out your NVMe drives, don't reinstall windows half a dozen times, don't spend hours in the bios... Swap and test that CPU.

Intel knows something is going on here which is why they've released the statement almost throwing motherboard partners under the bus. They've relied on the tweaks motherboard vendors make to the bios settings to reach advertised clock speeds for years and now it's gone too far it's a problem for them.

EDIT: Intel comments internally on the “13th and 14th Generation K SKU Processor Instability Issue” and finally brings a comprehensive update of its own investigation (Leak) | igor´sLAB (igorslab.de)

Intel denies reports that it identified a root cause for Core i9 crashing issues — investigation continues | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)

I have a 14900KF with the same issues. How does the Intel RMA work, do they send you a new processor and you send the old one back, oir do you send your current processor in first? I cannot afford to be without a "working" computer for weeks waiting for a replacement

I'll definitely be checking that out, thank you.

I'm also going to test installing a different OS on a partitioned section of the drive to see if I have the same issue.