Memory issues

[Jelz]

Hello,

in my brothers pc he had a ryzen 5 3600 with asrock b450 steel legend and Corsair vengeance 3600mhz, when we go into bios and try to enable xmp or manually change the ram speed to 3600 the pc does not boot and it restarts a few times and then it resets ram speed too, we have tried a different set of ram and the problem persists. There is also dark patches on the motherboard behind the vrms which feels greasy to the touch, cpu is performing normally boosting up to 4.2ghz

i have attached a picture of the dark patches,

cheers

[Radium_Angel]

XMP seems to cause more issues than it solves, try a lower speed if you wish, or leave it at default and don't worry about it, the boost you get from faster RAM is minimal.

[Jelz]

1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

XMP seems to cause more issues than it solves, try a lower speed if you wish, or leave it at default and don't worry about it, the boost you get from faster RAM is minimal.

Thanks for your response, I will bear this in mind, do you know what the darks spots on the motherboard is and are they something to worry about ?