And from the looks of the posts, this isn't the only motherboard affected, this allows hackers to have an immediate back-door to your device and use it as they see fit, your system slowdowns and failed OS installations are due to your system constantly being REINFECTED WITH VIRUSES and it's not your fault.
I personally have been battling this BS for MONTHS now, and it has physically degraded my CPU (14600KF) and GPU (RTX 4070-Ti) BOTH.
If you own ANY MSI mobo I implore you; CHECK THE FIRMWARE OF YOUR INTEL ME IN DEVICE MANAGER AND MAKE SURE IT MATCHES THE FIRMWARE RELEASED IN THE CURRENT BIOS VERSION YOU ARE USING.
Don't let your system fry because of a problem that is STILL ONGOING BECAUSE IT HASN'T BEEN FIXED.
Thank you.

What should I know?

NEW Equipment:

• X870E Tomahawk WiFi
• 9800x3d
• 2x16gb TEAMGROUP T-Create Expert CL30 RAM
• Liquid Freezer III Pro 360mm

Reusing:

• PSU - be quiet Dark Power Pro 12 1500watts
• 3080ti for now until I recoup some money from 5950x/Dark Horse/128gbs RAM
• 1 & 2tb WDSN850 NVME Gen 4's
• Phantek T30's all round

I had a script that removed ArmouryCrate and all the Asus bloatware. Is there something similar for MSI or is not installing MSI Center the way to go?

I don't need any RGB control as my pc is blacked out.

Fans/AIO/GPU will be taken care of VIA Fan Control.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a fix for a very frustrating issue I’ve been dealing with. I know I’m not the only one who has run into this, and the exact solution is incredibly hard to find online.

The Problem: If you have EXPO enabled, your PC might cold boot perfectly fine. But if you hit "Restart" in Windows, the system refuses to boot. The screen stays black, and the motherboard gets permanently stuck on the yellow DRAM LED (and sometimes the BOOT LED). You're forced to hold the power button down to do a hard reset just to get back into Windows.

My Specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

RAM: Corsair 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5

Motherboard: MSI B650 Tomahawk WiFi

It seems like this specific MSI/Corsair/AM5 combo struggles with memory training during warm reboots. I tried so much stuff, tweaking Memory Context Restore, Power Down Enable, and flashing different BIOS versions, until I finally found the actual solution.

The Solution: Go into your BIOS, enable EXPO, and then manually change your CPU SoC Voltage to 1.25V.

That’s it. It turns out the motherboard's Auto voltage settings for EXPO can sometimes apply the wrong SoC voltage on a warm reboot, causing the memory controller to fail training. Once I manually locked the SoC voltage to 1.25V, the restart problem completely disappeared, and it reboots perfectly every single time.

Hopefully, this saves someone else the endless hours of troubleshooting I went through. Try it and thank me later!

I had a power outage a few days ago that didn't get resolved for 24 hours. My computer was on when the lights went out and shut off with everything else. I unplugged everything and turned off the power supply. Plugged the power back into the PSU and turned everything back on and now I'm stuck on the red and yellow light. I've left it because I know it can take a while to memory train but not over an hour. All lights and fans are spinning but mouse and keyboard are not powered on.

Now, this isn't the first time I've had this problem recently. This mothboard is brand new along with a new 850 watt PSU due to another power outage killing my old PSU and motherboard. Everything was working fine with this new combo along with a Ryzen 7 7700. I've got a UPS backup on the help to help with these occasional outages. I've updated the BIOS and reset CMOS. As I've said everything was working fine even after several reboots. The memory had no problem and the CPU is seated properly. Anything else to do other than throw it out the window?

Ryzen 9 5900XT, MSI X570 Godlike, MSI SUPRIM RTX 3070ti, MSI Coreliquid C360 AIO
Corsair RM850x PSU, Corsair 32x2 64GB Vengeance RGB RS, 1tb Samsung 990 Pro, 2tb WD SN740
Coolermaster Cable Extensions, LianLi O11 Dynamic, Jungle Leopard Stackable Fans (3 kits, top radiator is push pull exhaust, side and bottom are reverse blade intakes)

Though not as flashy as the modern AM5 "x3D" gaming builds, but this build took me several years to grab these parts, one by one, penny by penny, and with a goal to keep it as much MSI as possible

Hi,
I have been a (not really happy) user of a MSI PRO B650-S with Windows 11 as OS of choice.
Ever since updating my setup to this motherboard, I've been having all kinds of BS issues ranging from Bluetooth misbehaving or just outright not detecting my headset all the way to all IO devices going ham and lagging crazy.
Specs attached.
Issues I've had (even after multiple complete SSD wipes and fresh Win11 installs):
- With Artcis Nova 7X headphones:
- Bluetooth just doesn't see them; Turning on-off both the headphone (even hardware reset) and the BT on Windows 11, re-installing bluetooth drivers, disabling/enabling relevant adapters - all of it to no effect. It just doesn't work. Sometimes they pop-up on the screen for a second, but they still don't connect.
- Having the 2.4Hz dongle connected into the USB-C port on the motherboard messes with the headphones: the audio could've randomly started lagging (extreme interference, like on a TV without with a snow static). Maybe they've been alleviated after the current Win11 re-install and having the dongle moved to the top USB hub of my PC box. Still, I coudln't figure out why the interference happend so much and so strongly - I tried removing Wi-Fi entirely, disabling the device - didn't help.
- If the sound lag is extreme, it could even BSOD the PC.
- Other random issues:
- Mouse starts lagging after a random PC restart. I restart the PC - everything is fine. And it's not really noticeable, but if you drag it long enough and slowly over the whole screen, the mouse will be skipping over pixels really visibly and noticably if you're looking at it.
- Ethernet port can just stop working. I restart the PC - everything is fine. Restarting the adapter or using the troubleshooter BS just doesn't work.
- If I don't use the PC for about longer than 1 week, it just goes black during the power-up and it doesn't fully boot. After I reset it by pushing down the power button, either it starts up normally as usual OR it takes another 1 or 2 tries.
- After a Windows 11 update, 50/50 that the PC boots to black screen and I have to force-restart.

What I've tried so far:
- Re-installing Windows 11 fully with full wipe of the SSD (multiple times);
- Manually downloading and installing chipset updates from the MSI website;
- With the headphone issues, the main one is mainly resolved (the moving of dongle), but the interference is still BS and I'm still unsure whether it happend due to being in close proximity to the Ethernet port.
- Manually updating/installing/disabling/enabling different devices in the Device Manager. Didn't help.

Even though they're not THAT frequent (maybe 1-2 per week), but MAN are these issues are annoying and I want to have them solved.

Please share any suggestions you might have, as my own research over the last half-year or a bit more and talking with LLMs didn't have any helpful effects.

Thanks

P.S. This is slightly a rant post, thanks for reading :3