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submitted 10 months ago by Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.zip 1 point 10 months ago

It can happen if the old motherboard failed, which was more likely than the CPU failing.

There was talk of not providing firmware update for old chipsets to support new gen CPU as well, which is relevant to the cases you mentioned.

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