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I recently changed my pc ram from 8 gb 2400 mhz single stick to 8x2 3200 mhz. After changing the ram i am encountering complete power off while gaming or doing some heavy tasks. I tried disabling xmp and lowering the speed of ram but nothing helps. Specs are Gigabyte ab350m gaming 3 (bios version f51h) Ryzen 5 1600 Adata AX4u32008G16A-DT60 8x2 ram 3200 mhz(xmp disable) WD BLUE 500 GB M.2 SSD Corsair vs550 psu Gigabyte 1060 6 gb gpu. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Regards

Ok, this is just a post about my experiences with the AM4 platform, and in particular using the Ryzen 1700 CPU and an ASrock AB350M motherboard, together with using Corsair LPX 3000Mhz DDR4 RAM. This is the first AM4 build I have done so far, trying to get hold of the particular board I wanted was like trying to find rocking horse shit, lol. So far I am loving it, very easy to use, didn't need to consult the manual for anything as it was all very straight forward. Yes I am an experienced user, but I can't think of anyone that couldn't build a system like this if they use common sense TBH, the only things I have changed in the BIOS are:- CPU frequency Fan profiles updated BIOS version to latest, using USB stick with BIOS in the root directory... but it scans the entire USB stick anyway for supported files I noticed, so very easy to use indeed. I had the ethernet drivers already on a USB stick, but just for fun decided to run the ASrock driver installation tool, very painless operation, it downloads the ethernet driver to wherever you select. Turned on virtualization, if you're not planning on running VMs then you don't need to do this step. I tried to run the RAM in XMP profile, but it didn't take and reverted to being 2133Mhz for now. Will try again later when I have more time. That's it. Yeah, so basically the entire thing was a total joy to do. The motherboard in general is just what I needed, 2 * m.2 drive ports, 1 which is pci-e and 1 which is SATA. If you use the SATA m.2 port then that only leaves 2 SATA ports that you can use, but is fine for my uses. The mounting system for the stock heatsink and fan is a nice touch, just unscrew the mounting brackets and attach the heatsink and fan assembly, obviously use thermal paste on the CPU first, but very straight forward and no guesswork about how much force to use on the screws, it will only go as far as you can tighten it using a screwdriver. The LED light on the fan assembly is a pretty nice touch and the software (available from the ASrock store) is easy to use in windows. I like the GPU retention clip too, as it's a sliding one, so easy to get to and use. I am only using an old AMD 7790 GPU at the moment, I don't game much on the PC, so it's fine for what I need right now. I might update to a better one in a month or 2, but for now it's fine. I would've liked to at least see more PWM fan headers, this one has 2 PWM fan headers and 1 that is 3 or 4 pin and it auto detects (haven't tested this)... at the moment though I am using just the CPU header to attach my PWM fan hub from thermaltake, this supports upto 10 PWM fans and is pretty good. From there I have my AMD fan plugged into it and also my front 200mm fan... I have the fan profile set to custom settings to change with the temp of the CPU, this is a must for me as I like my PCs quiet. At the moment I am running a VM of windows on 4 threads, and my host OS is ubuntu 17.04 MATE, and is sitting at approx 28C, so approx 8-10C above ambient. The whole installation took me approx 20 mins, but I was only swapping in this m-ATX board, with the CPU, RAM,m.2 drive and GPU on it, into my system that I had been using previously with an i7 6700k. After installing the hardware I booted into the BIOS and did the things explained earlier. The frequency I used for testing was 3600Mhz on the CPU and RAM set to 2133. I installed windows on a 40GB partition first, as I will only be using it for a few things here and there as I mainly use Ubuntu as my main OS. After installing windows, tweaking settings and installing my favourite programs, I ran some tests and benchmarks. I scored 1562 in multi-threaded test, which is a pretty nice bump to the score of just 1004 for an i7 6700K, that's approximately a 56% increase. After confirming that it was a stable OC, I bumped it up to 3800Mhz @1.3V, tested out as stable and cinebench score came in at 1656, so represents around 65% increase over the i7... not bad for a CPU that cost me around £290, £40 less than the i7 did 8 months ago Anyway, after that I decided to continue on with my installations. I loaded up the ubuntu USB and installed that and my favourite programs and installing windows VM too, for when I need to quickly do some windows tasks and don't want to reboot the system... I only have it using 4 threads at the moment and 8GB of RAM and it runs great for what I need to do. So after installing all the programs, and tweaks, I am almost completely re-installed after around 3 hours or so, but that includes taking some breaks for lunch etc too, so I am happy with that. All that's left to do now is decide on a final OC amount and try to bump up the RAM frequency. If I missed something out, let me know and I'll try to remember what I did and when. I hope this might help someone decide whether they should upgrade to a Ryzen build, or not as the case may be. I now have to decide whether I should sell my i7 6700k and motherboard or keep it to use as an HTPC/NAS system or whatever. Thanks for reading, I welcome constructive criticism

Just wanted to let anyone else know that the AGESA update has landed. I now have my Corsair LPX 3000Mhz RAM at 3066Mhz with no problems at all, just XMP setting. So anyone that wonders if you have to buy certain RAM sticks now, you don't (with this board anyway). But I would imagine it has landed with other boards and makes too, so don't go out and buy expensive ram thinking it may not hit the stated frequency. Didn't notice if they have updated the QVL or not, but I doubt it. Now have my system back up at 3.9Ghz/1.375, RAM at 3066Mhz and SOC on stock voltage, sitting at 26C at idle right now, so about 4-6 above ambient with stock wraith cooler too... I do need to get a better cooler though for intensive tasks as it gets quite toasty (in the 80s) with a full load Hope this may be some use to someone.

Heya all, I've got a quick question regarding the M.2 slots on the ASRock AB350M Pro4. (ASRock Product Site) There's an M.2 slot and an M.2 Ultra slot. What's the difference? The user manual of the board says the following: • 1 x Ultra M.2 Socket (M2_1), supports type 2242/2260/2280 M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32 Gb/s) (with Ryzen CPU) or Gen3 x2 (16 Gb/s) (with A-Series APU)** • 1 x M.2 Socket (M2_2), supports type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module** ** Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks I know that the Intel 600p NVMe drive i'm looking at uses a Gen3 x4 PCIe interface, which seems to be the ultra slot, but what is the SATA3? Am i right to assume that the Sata 3 socket is simply a bottle-necked M.2 interface, or am i reading that wrong?...

so umm yeah, shut down my computer. removed the GPU changed the thermal paste. put card back in.. and now i have no Network connection, the LAN port flash's very breifly but nothing else is happening!! its not seeing it in Windows and or bios, i dont even know how this has happened ? seriously how does changing TP on a GPU do this, it was working fine right up till that moment?. anyone got any ideas?? its a AB350m Asrock motherboard

So long story short, everytime I've updated my bios I've lost something. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or updating the bios is just a bad idea...thoughts? Gigabyte AB350M Gaming 3 Ryzen 1600 4 x 4GB Patriot Viper 4 Ram (XMP has never worked) 1x NVME 3x SSD Bios F25 I have a O/C of 3.8Ghz and I run my ram @3000mhz and everything works fine. Bios F30/31 I lost the ability to O/C the CPU, it just boot cycles and loads defaults. I tried a range of different voltages and multiplier steps, but couldn't under or overclock. Ram was fine Bios F40 No Cpu O/C and my system is unstable with the ram set @3000Mhz, windows either just gets to desktop or crashes before, ran memtest and it was basically all errors Ram is fine @2933Mhz Bios F41a No change on ram or CPU, but unable to automatically boot from SSD, went into Bios and the only boot option was the NVME drive and (BBS?) boot priorities list has vanished. All the drives are correctly showing up in Bios, but arent available as boot drives. I tried a bunch of different settings, but nothing else would show up. At boot up, if i hammered F12 i could get the boot menu and manually select the correct boot drive, but this is obviously not the right way of doing things I'm pretty certain the motherboard/ram/cpu is fine, if I roll back to F25, then everything works fine. I've usually always kept bios update and O/C'ed other computers i've had and never had any problems like this before. It feels like I'm losing too much performance with each new Bios, which makes future upgrades basically pointless. Any thoughts or ideas?

Hi, So I picked up a Ryzen 7 2700 today to replace my Ryzen 3 1300x. I've got a Asrock ab350m motherboard bios version 4.70, 2 sticks of 8 Gb 2133 Mhz ram. The problem is the motherboard recognizes my 2 ram sticks but for some reason runs in single channel mode. They used to work properly before, windows also recognizes the 2 ram sticks but says only 7.93 Gb usable. Is there a fix to this or did my mobo randomly break? Thanks in advance EDIT: already fixed it, somehow my cpu pins had some thermal paste on them so the contact wasn't clear enough I think.

Hi, yesterday i tried to overclock my cpu slightly, after clicking save and exit my pc don't boot . I know i have to clear cmos, but i don't know how to do that. I don't want to break anything, and I'm pretty new in pc community. I found the clear cmos inscription on the board but i don't know what to do next.

Hey, I've recently built a new PC and for the past few days I've been getting a ton of random freezes, hangs and crashes even when the PC is completely idle or doing very little work like pulling up the taskbar. Temperatures are completely fine, running at 26 degrees on the CPU and 25 on the motherboard in idle with them both going up to about 45 while running AIDA64's stresstest. My parts are: AMD R5 1600 with a Coolermaster Hyper TX3 Evo running at stock speed ASRock AB350M Pro4, running the latest BIOS available, but I tried earlier ones too and they've been just as unstable 8GB of Crucial Ballistix Sport LT rated at 2666 Mhz Gainward GTX 750 And powered by a Corsair VS550 PSU Is my board just junk or what else could this be.

Hi all - I bought the 2200g because I heard it was the best bang for buck for an HTPC w/ budget gaming capabilities. But more than that, its overclocking capability made it a way better value than the 2400g which is $70 more. Every single guide I've watched or read has been easily achieving 1500mhz GPU and I struggled to get past that immensely. So after week of trying, I decided to start over and document everything in full. Did I do anything wrong? Have I reached the max of this chip and I've just lost the silicon lottery? Below are my findings Guides Used TechSpot - Budget Overclocking Guide: Ryzen 3 2200G https://www.techspot.com/article/1579-overclocking-guide-ryzen-3-2200g/ TweakTown - AMD Raven Ridge (2000-Series Zen APU) Overclocking Guide https://www.tweaktown.com/guides/8547/amd-raven-ridge-2000-series-zen-apu-overclocking-guide/index.html Esports Ryzen 2200G Budget Gaming PC Build - How to setup and overclock it ! + Twitch Benchmarks - YouTube System Build * Ryzen 3 2200g * Gigabyte GA-AB350M Gaming 3 (BIOS ver F23d, latest) * Patriot Viper 2x4gb DDR4 - 3000mhz * Noctua DH-D9L dual-tower cooler w/ fan * SeaSonic 530W Bronze M2 PSU * 3 120mm case fans * Everything on QVL list for the motherboard Test strategy 1. Used Ryzen Master only to experiment in the beginning to set targets for where to start. All steps performed below were done in BIOS only 2. All testing was done with the following BIOS settings - Cool N’ Quiet disabled - Core Performance Boost disabled - Global C-State disabled 3. Drivers were clean uninstalled via DDU in Safe Mode. Rebooted, then installed chipset drivers 18.40 and then GPU drivers 17.7 from AMD’s site 4. CPU first based on almost all guides I’ve read or watched - Start at 3.75ghz @ 1.3v and go up from there. - If test fails or system freezes/crashes, add 0.01v increment - If temp too high (over 80), reduce voltage - If pass, increase CPU by 25mhz and do steps #1 and #2 again 5. Memory next - also based on guides and forum posts - Minimum target 2933mhz at standard XMP timings - Use Ryzen DRAM Calculator here - [Ryzen DRAM Calculator 1.1.0 Beta 2 (overclocking DRAM on AM4) - Overclock.net - An Overclocking Community](http://www.overclock.net/forum/13-amd-general/1640919-ryzen-dram-calculator-1-1-0-beta-2-overclocking-dram-am4.html) - Test stability with OCCT and Memtest64 (overnight) 6. GPU last - and in my few weeks of trying to get this right, the most difficult by far, which completely contradicts what the guides are saying. A lot of people are getting 1500-1650mhz which seems crazy to me and maybe a number for the 2400g, but the guides do say 2200g - Start at 1200mhz (100mhz over base clock of 1100) @ SOC 1.1v GPU 1.2v and go up from there - Perform quick test using OCCT GPU and Cinebench R15 - Keep going up in increments, and same with above - increase voltage on freeze/crash, lower voltage if temp is too high (I never had any issues with temp, only crashing) CPU Overclock Results 3.75 1.3v freeze 3.75 1.325v pass 3.77 1.325v freeze 3.77 1.375v fail 3.77 1.34v pass 3.8 1.35v freeze 3.8 1.36v pass 3.825 1.36v freeze 3.825 1.375v pass 3.85 1.375v freeze 3.85 1.38v freeze 3.85 1.4v pass 1. Dialed back by 50mhz for ensured extra stability = 3.8ghz @ 1.4v 2. Voltage readings from HWinfo64 - vCore @ 0.0v offset = 1.4v initial reading - SOC @ 0.0v offset = 1.1v initial reading 3. Run full long test (OCCT 64-bit high load @ 30 min) - Max temp 75c, average 70c - VRM average 55c, everything else in HWinfo under 50c - vCore average = 1.385v - SOC average = 1.068v 4. PASS 5. Cinebench R15 OpenGL = 49 FPS Mem Overclock 1. XMP Profile1 @ 3200mhz, 1.35v = Clock speed doesn’t change at all but no errors, very strange. Even in BIOS, shows running at 2133mhz after saving and rebooting. 2. XMP Profile1 @ 2933mhz, 1.35v = Stable! 3. Cinebench R15 = 62 fps 4. I decided to pause here because 2933mhz was very acceptable to me to start, with a big 13 fps jump in Cinebench from this alone GPU Overclock 1200, SOC 1.1, GPU 1.2 = Stable (Quick Test) 1300, SOC 1.1, GPU 1.2 = Boots but Video TDR Failure 1300, SOC 1.2, GPU 1.2 = Stable (Quick Test) 1350, SOC 1.2, GPU 1.2 = Stable (Quick Test) 1400, SOC 1.2, GPU 1.2 = Crash on boot (Video TDR Failure) 1400, SOC 1.2, GPU 1.3 = Crash on boot (Video TDR Failure) 1300, SOC 1.2, GPU 1.3 = Full test - PASS Cinebench R15 OpenGL = 67 fps Results CPU - 3.8ghz @ 1.4v vCore RAM - 2933mhz w/ XMP Profile1 GPU - 1300mhz @ 1.3v SOC - 1.2v (+0.1v offset) GPU is the big disappointment here, as the biggest performance gains in gaming will be from RAM & GPU, not CPU. I have similar results turning off CPU OC back to Auto and only trying to OC GPU. Ultimate goal here would be to get the GPU up to 1500 with the RAM at 3200 somehow, as CPU is fine stock. Any ideas of how I should systematically approach next steps?

I am going to buy a Ryzen 5 2400G for my Gigabyte AB350M-Gaming3 mobo. It currently has no CPU in it, but I have a Ryzen 5 1600 and 7 1800x I can use to do the update. I upgraded my mobo's a long time ago to Asus C6H's and I want to try the new 5 2400G in my Gigabyte AB350M. When I watch the YouTube videos they say to install bios update F22. Gigabytes CPU support list says F10 for the 5 2400G https://www.gigabyte.com/Ajax/SupportFunction/GetCpuList?Value=262&SocketValue=1695&Socket=AMD Socket AM4&Chipest=AMD B350&Type=Chipest On the Gigabyte BIOS Support page for the AB350M they list everything up to F23d https://www.gigabyte.com/Ajax/SupportFunction/GetCpuList?Value=262&SocketValue=1695&Socket=AMD Socket AM4&Chipest=AMD B350&Type=Chipest So which Bios should I install? F10, F22, or F23d? AND are these backward compatible with Summit Ridge CPU's? Thanks!

Does anyone knows or have tried Bristol Ridge, more so the A12-9800 on Asrock ab350m pro4 or Gigabyte ab350m Gaming 3. Back on October, I started a build with the A12-9800 and had many issues then. First, the memory i bought was faulty, and caused a bios crash while updating. Then, another replacement was having voltage issues. I experimented with the Asrock board and Gigabyte, and was not able to sucessfully play games for more than few minutes. At that time i decided to jump on Ryzen, what i did and got the R5 1400. I got both boards working good and now i want to use my spare Asrock pro4 to try again to build the A129800 syatem, now that it seems the many issues when released been somewhat fixed. I cannot find any info pn the web, about new changes that have improved the Apu performance, or if now they can be overclock like some have claimed on the web. I also noticed the APU, has vanished from market before the release of the Ryzen APU. I will start next week on the project that i have left to get a power supply.. Any Assistance will be appreciated..

Hey, i was just wondering if this m.2 ssd (the Samsung 960 EVO Series 500GB m.2) Amazon NewEgg would fit in my asrock ab350m motherboard? if it doesnt does anyone know that type of m.2 fits in here motherboard website just want to make sure before i purchase, and im new into the m.2 world. P.S i dont know how to remove the spoiler

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232530 https://pcpartpicker.com/list/vcXPkT That ram says that it’s for the b350 motherboard and I have the ab350m. It also says that it’s for the ryzen processors. I looked for it on my motherboard’s Memory QVL list and I couldn’t find it. Should that ram work for my build?

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/vcXPkT Ive been having the issue of “my pc won’t post” and I’ve explained all different things I’ve tried in previous posts. I recently plugged in a motherboard speaker and when I turned on the computer, it beeped 3 times, paused for a second, then beeped 8 more times. Is this two issues? I looked up the amount of beeps separately and 3 beeps means a memory problem and 8 beeps means a graphics card error

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/vcXPkT I’ve been having some compatibility issues with my ram and have been looking for a new one that works with my pc. I’m very nervous about buying ram that ends up not being compatible with my pc since it’s so expensive right now. Is my my safest bet to make sure my ram lets my pc post by buying ram from my motherboard’s QVL memory list?