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Crunchy Dragon
Crunchy Dragon Crunchy Dragon

Had to do my first-ever real world CMOS reset. Let me tell you, that was not fun.

 

I had gotten tired of having to reapply my overclock in Ryzen Master so decided to have a try doing it from the BIOS again(boy, was that a mistake). Left the voltage at default(in Ryzen Master, that was 1.235v), and bumped the clock from 3200 to 3300. After that, it started bootlooping, except it wouldn't boot.

 

So I forced it to shut down, unplugged it, and pulled the CMOS battery from the board(didn't locate the jumper until after I had gotten the battery out). 30 seconds later, I put the battery back in(almost, I dropped it into the depths of my case in the process and had to fish it out), and now it's all working fine...

 

What I don't get is why a voltage setting in Ryzen Master wouldn't work in the BIOS, especially the default voltage and only a core offset of +100Mhz.

  1. Energycore

    Energycore

    I'm actually quite surprised you didn't get to clear a CMOS before now.

     

    I remember distinctly the first time I cleared a CMOS, I must have been like 11 and thought "fuck the computer doesn't turn on, I guess I'll have to go to the user manual"

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