ASrock AB350m pro4 memory support

[Tummy]

Hallo everyone,

 

Some time ago I bought a ASrock AB350m Pro4 with an ryzen 1200 and the cheapest 8GB Crucial ram. Everything worked fine, het cpu was at 4025MHz @ 1.275V and the RAM at 2800MHz (OC from 2133) with tightened timings. After some time I wanted to upgrade to some better ram, so I orderd this kit: https://www.teamgroupinc.com/en/product/dark-pro-ddr4. I had the 16GB (2x8GB) 3200MHz 16-16-16-35 kit. But since then almost nothing works on my PC. Taskmanager is reporting 5ghz CPU speeds, the pc crashes constantly and if the RAM is at anything higher than 2400MHz it will fail to boot. I already sold my old ram because someone was desperate. But I had a 8GB 2133MHz corsair value stick laying around. But that one also refuses to boot with anything higher than 2400MHz. Meanwhile it is running at 3200MHz in my other PC. I returned my 16GB teamgroup kit because it was also droped during delivery and 1 week later I recived a new one. But its the exact same story with the new ram.

 

What shoud I do? The ram one the Memory QVL is hella expencive and I don't have that kind of money. (The 16GB Teamgroup kit was discounted in the sale so that's why i could afford it). And I don't want my RAM to run at 2133MHz because than I just downgraded to a worse configuration that's 2x as expencive.

[AskTJ]

Rest BIOS.

[Spaceman_Wil]

Check for bent CPU pins. Sometimes weird issues with ram slots are caused by bent pins.

[Anghammarad]

If you don't stick to the QVL, the chances of running into the exact situation you are right now in, is quite big. 

 

You could try ram from ADATA. I usually put i in my systems, and refer it to friends... Never had issues with them, even while not on the QVL. Just don't get the total balls to th wall clock ram.

[Anghammarad]

2 minutes ago, Spaceman_Wil said:

Check for bent CPU pins. Sometimes weird issues with ram slots are caused by bent pins.

From the description given no movement has happened to the cpu... only swapped out rams...

[Spaceman_Wil]

3 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

From the description given no movement has happened to the cpu... only swapped out rams...

According to the description true. But it's easy for him to not even consider it not be related and not mention it.

[Tummy]

22 minutes ago, Spaceman_Wil said:

Check for bent CPU pins. Sometimes weird issues with ram slots are caused by bent pins.

I have never had the CPU moved or replaced. So I don't think this is the problem.

But I apriciate the reaction.

[Tummy]

24 minutes ago, AskTJ said:

Rest BIOS.

What do you mean exactly? I have already updated to the latest version and to the latest beta-version. I have also done a complete powerdown.

 

[Tummy]

56 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

If you don't stick to the QVL, the chances of running into the exact situation you are right now in, is quite big. 

 

You could try ram from ADATA. I usually put i in my systems, and refer it to friends... Never had issues with them, even while not on the QVL. Just don't get the total balls to th wall clock ram.

Ok, thanks for the info. But what do you mean with total balls to the waal clock ram? Anything above xxxx?

[Anghammarad]

1 hour ago, Tummy said:

Ok, thanks for the info. But what do you mean with total balls to the waal clock ram? Anything above xxxx?

Each DDR kind has a specification, like usb... it should be in specified boundaries to fullfil those. The faster the modules are, the more aggressive the timings while on stock speed, the more those specifications are broken. A good mainboard should tolerate that to a point, other motherboards that are made for performance need ram that is within the specified limits of the DDR specification. 

 

If they are beyond those, the machine is more likely to be unstable.