PC keep Crashes when enabled XMP

[AdnanMahmud]

Hi,

So after bought my pc I can see my memory is not using full speed. Then I learn from online, turning on XMP will provide full memory speed. But after turn on XMP my pc keep crashing. 
Please kindly help me! How can I use my memory at it’s highest speed without facing any problem.

Here’s my pc specifications:

CPU: Intel 12th Gen Core i5-12600K Alder Lake Processor

Mother Board: ASUS TUF Gaming Z690-PLUS D4 ATX Gaming Motherboard

RAM: Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO 8GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM White x 2

[BiotechBen]

XMP is hit or miss as to whether it is stable, I've had bad luck with vengeance RAM XMP profiles, you may need to start around 1.3v at 2666mhz and gradually go up in voltage and frequency toward 1.4v and 3200mhz respectively until it is stable.

[LIGISTX]

1 hour ago, AdnanMahmud said:

Hi,

So after bought my pc I can see my memory is not using full speed. Then I learn from online, turning on XMP will provide full memory speed. But after turn on XMP my pc keep crashing. 
Please kindly help me! How can I use my memory at it’s highest speed without facing any problem.

Here’s my pc specifications:

CPU: Intel 12th Gen Core i5-12600K Alder Lake Processor

Mother Board: ASUS TUF Gaming Z690-PLUS D4 ATX Gaming Motherboard

RAM: Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO 8GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM White x 2

Seeing as alder lake is brand new, I’d check to see if there is a BIOS update.
 

Trying to manually tune RAM is not a simple task…. You have to increase timings as you increase speed, and the ability to create an unstable situation is large. It’s very difficult to get RAM stable if you are new to overclocking so I wouldn’t suggest trying that route. Hopefully we can get XMP working for you. BIOS update is definitely the place to start. 

[AdnanMahmud]

1 hour ago, LIGISTX said:

Seeing as alder lake is brand new, I’d check to see if there is a BIOS update.
 

Trying to manually tune RAM is not a simple task…. You have to increase timings as you increase speed, and the ability to create an unstable situation is large. It’s very difficult to get RAM stable if you are new to overclocking so I wouldn’t suggest trying that route. Hopefully we can get XMP working for you. BIOS update is definitely the place to start. 

Bios is already updated. 
Yes as I’m new it’s a risky to try every timing and speed.

Is there anything else should I try?

[LIGISTX]

8 hours ago, AdnanMahmud said:

Bios is already updated. 
Yes as I’m new it’s a risky to try every timing and speed.

Is there anything else should I try?

Hmm, I am a bit surprised it won’t run DDR4 at those speeds. What exactly happens, how does it crash? Does it boot into windows? Boot loop, crash right away? 

[DarkDream787]

I don't see that particular RAM listed in the QVL list. The only corsair 3200 in the QVL for that board is this.

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Memory/VENGEANCE-LPX/p/CMK16GX4M2Z3200C16

 

That ram is optimized for Ryzen systems, so profile defaults on an Intel board might have issues or need a little bit of manual tweaking. If your RAM works with XMP off, then the RAM is for sure compatible with the board at stock settings.

 

That board, the CPU, and the sticks of RAM are all capable of 3200 speeds. Just need to find out whats going on and what needs tweaked to get it to run at that speed.

 

I would go into your bios, and reset all the settings back to default. After that, turn on XMP and leave everything alone or at auto or whatever it picks. Then look for RAM voltage and turn ONLY the voltage up a little bit. If it says 1.35, try raising to 1.36. Then save your BIOS settings and reboot your computer. If it still doesn't work, turn the voltage up 0.01 more to 1.37 and reboot again. Keep doing this and raising the voltage 0.01 more to 1.38, 1.39 etc and keep rebooting to see if it works. I would stop at 1.45 max. (DO NOT go above 1.45 unless it was already at 1.45 when you started) If its still not working by the time you get up to 0.05 higher voltage, I would assume voltage is not the issue.

 

Let me know if that helps at all and we can go from there. If it's not the voltage, we can work on the next BIOS option to mess around with.

[AdnanMahmud]

1 hour ago, LIGISTX said:

Hmm, I am a bit surprised it won’t run DDR4 at those speeds. What exactly happens, how does it crash? Does it boot into windows? Boot loop, crash right away? 

Well when I only turned on xmp without changing anything else my pc keep crashing with blue screen.

Then I tried to reduce the ram speed little bit. Ex: 3100mhz, 3000mhz. Then it’s showing black screen. And after I restart pc it’s open safe mode at bios.

[DarkDream787]

31 minutes ago, AdnanMahmud said:

Well when I only turned on xmp without changing anything else my pc keep crashing with blue screen.

Then I tried to reduce the ram speed little bit. Ex: 3100mhz, 3000mhz. Then it’s showing black screen. And after I restart pc it’s open safe mode at bios.

I stated turn on XMP without changing anything "but the voltage". Just XMP without changing anything else at all has not been the fix for you.

 

Also did you reset all BIOS settings to default as well? Not just the memory settings to default. Do that first, then do what I said, but be sure to mess with the voltage as specified this time.

 

Were not messing with speed right now, we want everything in the entire BIOS reset at defaults, then XMP turned on and left at defaults so we can tweak the dram voltage setting only. If we get it working with a specific voltage, we can mess around with the speed settings later if necessary. This may take multiple reboots and raising voltage little by little as I specified earlier a few times.

[AdnanMahmud]

On 12/11/2021 at 1:10 AM, DarkDream787 said:

I stated turn on XMP without changing anything "but the voltage". Just XMP without changing anything else at all has not been the fix for you.

 

Also did you reset all BIOS settings to default as well? Not just the memory settings to default. Do that first, then do what I said, but be sure to mess with the voltage as specified this time.

 

Were not messing with speed right now, we want everything in the entire BIOS reset at defaults, then XMP turned on and left at defaults so we can tweak the dram voltage setting only. If we get it working with a specific voltage, we can mess around with the speed settings later if necessary. This may take multiple reboots and raising voltage little by little as I specified earlier a few times.

Hi, after set everything default I turned on xmp on keep increased the voltage 1.35, 1.36, 1.37, 1.38, 1.39 and 1,40.

But still it’s not working.

[bjornoman]

On 12/9/2021 at 9:48 PM, AdnanMahmud said:

Hi,

So after bought my pc I can see my memory is not using full speed. Then I learn from online, turning on XMP will provide full memory speed. But after turn on XMP my pc keep crashing. 
Please kindly help me! How can I use my memory at it’s highest speed without facing any problem.

Here’s my pc specifications:

CPU: Intel 12th Gen Core i5-12600K Alder Lake Processor

Mother Board: ASUS TUF Gaming Z690-PLUS D4 ATX Gaming Motherboard

RAM: Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO 8GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM White x 2

I just had this happen on a similar setup. And I was able to fix it. 

First of all, revert the settings. Mine crashed before my monitor even activated so I had to hold the power button right after the fans started spinning to kill the computer. When you do this (on my motherboard at least), the next startup will be done in a "safe boot" mode where you can press F1 to enter the bios and revert your changes. If you do this, you don't need to clear the cmos. 

 

Once you are stable again, back up your data if you haven't already. 

 

Now power off, remove all sticks of ram and go through each of them, installing each stick on its own (see the motherboard manual to know which slot to put a single stick in), start up the computer, enable xmp and confirm system stability (it shouldn't crash). 

When I did this I found that 2 of my 4 sticks were bad. One crashed before the screen was turned on, the other crashed about the time you login (which caused windows to get corrupted and I had to repair that later)

 

I am getting the bad sticks replaced. I built 2 identical computers and all 6 other sticks worked fine after enabling xmp. All you should have to do to get the advertised performance out of your ram is to enable xmp, set the advertised timing/voltage/etc (which auto-populate on my motherboard) and restart. 

 

CPU: Intel Core i9-11900K - Core i9 11th Gen Rocket Lake 8-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1200 125W
Mother Board: ASUS TUF Gaming Z590-Plus WiFi
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200

[Bananamcfly]

I have nearly the exact same issue. I've got 12900kf, RTX3080, the tuf z690 d4 and corsair vengeance Pro 3600 c18. I also cannot get the ram past 3200. I can enable xmp but will have to reduce the speed to 3200, if not it won't even post. I suspect my issue is bad ram but to be confirmed. I can get one stick with xmp 1 3600 to boot, but it'll crash under a minute. And the other stick won't even post past 3200 speeds. Any luck on your end? 

 

Some additional info, when I first built the rig,, it wouldn't post and kept saying gpu issue via the diagnostic lights. But when I reseated my gpu and tried a known good gpu, no dice. Only after reseating the ram did it work after that. But still no xmp 3600

[atxcyclist]

I just upgraded from a 2x8gb Corsair 3200 kit to a 2x16gb Kingston 3200 kit on a 2700X system. The Kingston kit will not remain stable in some instances at 3200, even though this exact kit is on the QVL and certified to run at that speed. The Corsair was flawless for several years, but their kits have 'versions' on QVLs so it's impossible to order the correct thing years after it's released.

 

I used profile 2, 2933. If the kit's not stable I'll return it.  Even the standard speed of this Kingston ram is worse than the Corsair, 2400 instead of 2666.

[Castade]

I have the same problem, but I am able to boot and actually get into windows, problem is, it will either crash moments after boot or it will work all day, then it will just crash

its Gskill DDR4 4400MHz 17-18-18-38 1.5v.  should I further increase the voltage?