XMP and Memory OC issue

[Scott Macbeth]

Hi all, in the past few months i've been having issues with my xmp profiles. (I've had the pc over a year now so out of warranty, go figure) basically when I try enable XMP profile 1 or 2 my pc will power cycle twice on reboot and just not enable the profile at all. I tried manually inputting the memory overclock, this worked for a couple weeks before i blue screened and it power cycled twice and booted into memory overclock failed message.

 

I have tried resetting bios multiple times, removed the cmos battery and wait then put it back in, reseated ram in different slots (only 2+3+4 slots available due to cooler taking slot 1) and nothing is working anymore. My specs are MSI x570 mpg gaming edge wifi with a ryzen 3700x and 2x 8GB corsair vengeance RGB 3600 mhz. As an FYI i have a dummy RGB stick in slot 3 and before someone asks, yes im sure its the dummy stick in 3 and the real sticks in 2 and 4. At this point i'm about to give up and deal with the fact that my ryzen cpu is running on 2133 mhz ram which is awful. Any suggestions or help would be awesome.

 

Also if you have any questions i'll do my best to answer.

[Chris Pratt]

Can't say for sure, but wouldn't surprise me if it was an issue with the board. The MSI X570 Gaming Edge is a raging dumpster fire.

[Scott Macbeth]

Just now, Chris Pratt said:

Can't say for sure, but wouldn't surprise me if it was an issue with the board. The MSI X570 Gaming Edge is a raging dumpster fire.

Preaching to the choir on that, ever since i've had this board its been nothing but an absolute pain.

[Chris Pratt]

8 minutes ago, Scott Macbeth said:

Preaching to the choir on that, ever since i've had this board its been nothing but an absolute pain.

Not sure what you're running at currently, but you can try upping the SOC voltage, if it's not already over 1.3V. I definitely wouldn't go higher than that, especially on this board. You can also try downclocking the RAM some. Having to run your 3600Mhz at 3200Mhz or 3000Mhz sucks, but it's still better than 2133Mhz. Make sure to change the FCLK accordingly, though: 1600mhz for 3200Mhz, 1500Mhz for 3000Mhz, etc.

[Scott Macbeth]

6 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

Not sure what you're running at currently, but you can try upping the SOC voltage, if it's not already over 1.3V. I definitely wouldn't go higher than that, especially on this board. You can also try downclocking the RAM some. Having to run your 3600Mhz at 3200Mhz or 3000Mhz sucks, but it's still better than 2133Mhz. Make sure to change the FCLK accordingly, though: 1600mhz for 3200Mhz, 1500Mhz for 3000Mhz, etc.

Hi Chris, thats a good idea, not 100% confident in what im changing around as i looked up originally how to do it manually and changed all the relevant parts of the bios to match the below specs my ram should be running at. I assume what i should do is make it same latency 3200 mhz but try 1.3v not 1.35? or is it worth try 3600 mhz at 1.3v?

 

Tested Latency

 

18-19-19-39

Tested Voltage

 

1.35V

Tested Speed

 

3600MHz

[Scott Macbeth]

23 minutes ago, Scott Macbeth said:

Hi Chris, thats a good idea, not 100% confident in what im changing around as i looked up originally how to do it manually and changed all the relevant parts of the bios to match the below specs my ram should be running at. I assume what i should do is make it same latency 3200 mhz but try 1.3v not 1.35? or is it worth try 3600 mhz at 1.3v?

 

Tested Latency

 

18-19-19-39

Tested Voltage

 

1.35V

Tested Speed

 

3600MHz

So I tried what i suggested 1.3v at 3600 mhz, no dice. However 3200 mhz 1.3v and the latency suggested above it has booted so far... Not sure if that 400 mhz is gunna hit me that hard but its easily better than 2133 for now. Thanks for that suggestion.