RAM Issue

[hahadead7777]

So to start off when I built my budget PC a year and a half ago everything worked smoothly except for a GPU or GPU port that I may or may not have broken but hey the PC works 
Over the last few months I've noticed my PC started running slower and slower despite reducing programs at startup and making sure I have 50+ gb of storage on my main drives instead of 30-40gb.
Chrome started lagging quicker, programs started lagging more and my obs/windows record last 30s recordings were degrading worse with each month. And within the last month I've had 1 bluescreen in a game that normally runs perfectly fine and my computer started having a seizure while downloading a game and 2 chrome tabs open. Ever since then I noticed my RAM is at about 90% at startup and is running at 1067mhz

Today I looked into RAM running at the speed difference I was and only found 1 thing relevant other than overclocking was someones system couldn't boot up with my cpu, motherboard, and ram combo
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor

RAM:	G.Skill - Aegis 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory

Motherboard: ASRock - B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
 

I have partially fixed the issue but idk if I did something safe. I went into the bios and changed a few things with unexpected results. I enabled xmp 2.0 profile 1 instead of auto, changed the mhz to ddr4-2133 which is what it claimed it was running already on the left but it had auto selected 3000 on the right when I enabled the profile, and this also changed the voltage from 1.2v to 1.35v . However when I started the PC back up I was back down to 30% utilization of RAM however it shows I'm still running at 1067mhz. When I stick my hand near the RAM I don't notice any heat so I think everything is still fine but I don't think I can give this PC to a family member once I finish my next build with this issue around

[Stahlmann]

Reset your BIOS and clear CMOS.

Then reapply the XMP and dont tune anything else on the memory in the BIOS.

Dont forget to actually save the settings you apply in the BIOS when quitting.

[Haro]

30 minutes ago, Stahlmann98 said:

Reset your BIOS and clear CMOS.

Then reapply the XMP and dont tune anything else on the memory in the BIOS.

Dont forget to actually save the settings you apply in the BIOS when quitting.

No clearing the cmos won't do anything 

Updating the bios will tho 

[hahadead7777]

Just now, TofuHaroto said:

No clearing the cmos won't do anything 

Updating the bios will tho 

I'll look into that then. I just got back up after doing that and all I got was 1gb more of commited memory

[hahadead7777]

Well after some worry I did manage to update to what was capable since I only have a Pinnacle Ridge CPU so I can't do the 2 latest updates but I have now went from 1.6 to 3.5. When I did go to defaults and clear cmos before the bios update when I simply turned on a profile it did go to the normal 35% RAM utilization upon startup but now after updating the bios it still claims I'm running at 2133mhz but now I can't see a listing of mhz in my RAM to validate the speed. So I'm not certain if the issue is fixed or not. I guess I'll have to see if I regain my performance or not

[Haro]

9 hours ago, hahadead7777 said:

Well after some worry I did manage to update to what was capable since I only have a Pinnacle Ridge CPU so I can't do the 2 latest updates but I have now went from 1.6 to 3.5. When I did go to defaults and clear cmos before the bios update when I simply turned on a profile it did go to the normal 35% RAM utilization upon startup but now after updating the bios it still claims I'm running at 2133mhz but now I can't see a listing of mhz in my RAM to validate the speed. So I'm not certain if the issue is fixed or not. I guess I'll have to see if I regain my performance or not

Don't use task manager it sucks

Use hwinfo64

[hahadead7777]

10 hours ago, TofuHaroto said:

Don't use task manager it sucks

Use hwinfo64

Ah thanks. idk how I didn't have that tool yet. However I do seem to still be running at 1067mhz so I'm starting to wonder if it's an incompatibility that I'm lucky to run or a damaged RAM stick because the BIOS says it should be running at 2133mhz by default