Amd 3000G Overclock Fail

[Noeyedye]

Hi, I am a first time PC builder and I had recently built a budget system that worked great for the first 2 days until, I decided to overclock it.

I had no idea how to use the Gigabyte BIOS and I think I may have set my SoC voltage WAY too high. The PC instantly shut down and 

everything was still on and working but, there was no video output. Somebody please help me on this cause I have been stuck on this

for days now trying everything I could from changing the Ram to removing the CMOS battery. System specs are:

 

CPU: Amd 3000g

Motherboard: Gigabyte B540M Gaming rev 1.0

PSU: Corsair VS450

Ram: Crucial Ballistix 4GB DDR4 2666mhz x 2

Graphics Card: Integrated

 

[glenalz81]

What did you set the Soc voltage to?

 

[Noeyedye]

I was watching LowSpecGamer's video on the AMD 3000g and I tried to do his same voltages but for some reason, I couldn't figure out how to type a period in the gigabyte BIOS and so I think I may have set it to 12625 and other ridiculously high numbers for the CPU and the GPU.

Edited February 15, 2020 by Noeyedye

[Jurrunio]

but removing the CMOS battery and letting it sit for some time should reset everything back to defaults.

[Noeyedye]

I think I left it for a whole night and I think the CMOS did reset because I configured my lights in the BIOS to pulse and after the battery drain, it stopped pulsing which I think is an indication of a CMOS reset. 

Edited February 15, 2020 by Noeyedye

[Noeyedye]

I tried to see if some of the components were the problem so first, the PC turned on normally with 2, 1 and 0 sticks of RAM installed and obviously, it did not turn on without the CPU. Next, I tried plugging in my phone into the MOBO's USB port and it charged it normally. I think this is because of the RAM but I'm not entirely sure. 

Edited February 15, 2020 by Noeyedye

[Jurrunio]

19 hours ago, Noeyedye said:

I think I left it for a whole night and I think the CMOS did reset because I configured my lights in the BIOS to pulse and after the battery drain, it stopped pulsing. 

also possible that the high SOC voltage blew up the memory controller, that's inside the CPU.

 

You need either other memory kit or another CPU to test it. The board seems ok.

[Noeyedye]

5 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

also possible that the high SOC voltage blew up the memory controller, that's inside the CPU.

 

You need either other memory kit or another CPU to test it. The board seems ok.

Thanks for the reply, I'll try it with a different RAM set and CPU. Oh and one more thing, if you were to overclock an AMD 3000G, what numbers would you recommend? 

 

(OH and plus I didn't overclock the RAM) 

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, Noeyedye said:

Thanks for the reply, I'll try it with a different RAM set and CPU. Oh and one more thing, if you were to overclock an AMD 3000G, what numbers would you recommend? 

2nd gen APU (e.g. 2200G) numbers, so 3.8GHz CPU 1400MHz GPU 1.4V core voltage (voltage read in HWinfo64 btw) 1.1V SOC voltage.

[Noeyedye]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

2nd gen APU (e.g. 2200G) numbers, so 3.8GHz CPU 1400MHz GPU 1.4V core voltage (voltage read in HWinfo64 btw) 1.1V SOC voltage.

OK, thanks alot, I'll pull some RAM sticks from another PC and if it works I'll try your numbers. 

[Noeyedye]

22 hours ago, Noeyedye said:

OK, thanks alot, I'll pull some RAM sticks from another PC and if it works I'll try your numbers. 

So the issue wasnt the RAM. I think it is the CPU. Does this mean I have to go out and buy another one? 

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, Noeyedye said:

So the issue wasnt the RAM. I think it is the CPU. Does this mean I have to go out and buy another one? 

you can borrow one for testing I guess? Even if no one can, if you have all the proof of purchase you could use AMD's bootkit program and get a free CPU (meant for updating an outdated BIOS btw) and see whether the CPU is indeed the problem. I've heard that they hand out 200GE though, which is very similar to the 3000G apart from being supported by older BIOS.

[Noeyedye]

4 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

you can borrow one for testing I guess? Even if no one can, if you have all the proof of purchase you could use AMD's bootkit program and get a free CPU (meant for updating an outdated BIOS btw) and see whether the CPU is indeed the problem. I've heard that they hand out 200GE though, which is very similar to the 3000G apart from being supported by older BIOS.

Alright, so it wasn't the RAM, it wasn't the CPU (I had to go buy another one and return it), it actually turned out to be the mobo. I had to buy a new Aorus B450 M mobo and it worked instantly.