Did I screw something up?

James Fin · June 14, 2020

Hey y'all
I'm a complete noob when it comes to PC-builds and was more versed concerning software and stuff, but was inspired by LTT to actually start doing research, build some PCs myself and start tinkering around. Some weeks ago, I bought my own hardware for the first time instead of going through scrap yards. The build consists of this:

ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming
Cooler Master MasterBox Lite 5
Corsair Vengeance LPX (4 x 16 GB)
Samsung 970 EVO Plus
KFA2 GeForce GTX 1650 Super EX
Corsair RM650x
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

I setup a windows 10 Pro on it and am quite happy with most of it. I initially had some issues with temps that were resolved after a remount of the cooler and some new thermal paste.

Today for the first time, I had problems turning on the system. Initially, it started up and showed me the windows log-in screen, but immediately crashed. It automatically rebooted, showed me the NVidia post message, but immediately rebooted again. After 2 attempts, it finally started up properly.

Since day one, I have seen that I had some ridiculous BIOS-time of an average of 25 seconds. I always assumed that this was an error because the system always seemed to start up quickly. Since the remounting of the CPU, I did feel the speed decrease tho. Is it possible that I messed something up?

I have already checked the Volume and it is formatted as a GPT. I have also checked the autostart tasks, all that I didn't disable seem to be relevant. Should I consider a clean install? Or is it possible that I messed up some hardware?

I thank you very much for your help!

archiso · June 14, 2020

@James Fin did you oc the cpu?

James Fin · June 14, 2020

@Lemon797 nope, standart clock. I did tweak the fans a little, but thats it.

archiso · June 14, 2020

@James Fin What is the RAM speed I heard that having 4 sticks of RAM running higher than 3200 MHz can cause problems. if your RAM is faster than that lower it's speed and tighten the timings.

James Fin · June 14, 2020

@Lemon797 running it at 2133 MHz. It's really odd, but I think I might have made some mistakes in the BIOS. Cause I keep trying to prevent it from doing MEM tests, but it seems to do them anyways.... Maybe i should reset the BIOS settings and start again. Thanks for your help!