BSOD after enabling xmp

[Thane7]

Hello, first of all, this is my rig:

 

MoBo: Gigabyte B560M H

 

Ram: Kingston 2x8Gb DDR4 3200MHz

 

GPU: Asus ROG Strix GTX 1080

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-11400f

 

I started getting bluescreens right after enabling XMP. I know that disabling it would probably help, but I want to run it at 3200 instead of 2400 because of performance and my CPU and MoBo advertises that it can run it at those speeds. I get bluescreens only while gaming, sometimes games just crash without bluescreen. The most interesting part is that I usually get crashes only at the start of a gaming session, then it stops. I ran memtest, first run I got tons of errors, then I restarted my PC, retried it and got none. Everything was fine, until I tried gaming the next day, again crashes and then a bluescreen.

 

What I've tried so far to fix this:

 

\-Tried reseating ram sticks, switching places.

 

\-Running at 3000MHz (still crashing)

 

\-Increasing voltages manually

 

\-Enabling gear 1 and gear 2

 

None of those fixes worked, and today I got 3 bluescreens. I don't know what to do anymore and I certainly don't want to use my memory only at 2400 MHz since that's not what I paid for.

 

Thanks in advance to everyone helping.

[BetteBalterZen]

Maybe the RAM itself is bad? 

Can you run with XMP using a single stick? 

[Thane7]

2 minutes ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Maybe the RAM itself is bad? 

Can you run with XMP using a single stick? 

I haven't tried it yet, I will test it out.

The most interesting part of my issue is that one day everything works perfectly fine, the other it doesn't.

Memtest comfirms that, one day no errors, the other errors in the first minute of the test.

If my memory is fine, would it help to do the oc manually, without xmp? Could that be the problem?

[BetteBalterZen]

3 minutes ago, Thane7 said:

I haven't tried it yet, I will test it out.

The most interesting part of my issue is that one day everything works perfectly fine, the other it doesn't.

Memtest comfirms that, one day no errors, the other errors in the first minute of the test.

If my memory is fine, would it help to do the oc manually, without xmp? Could that be the problem?

Hmm yeah, I see what you mean - it is "interesting"... 

Do you possibly have a newer BIOS available for your motherboard? 

Also, you actually should only use XMP, and then only set settings manually, if you wanna push the RAM further or fx run with lower voltage. Remember, the RAM is tested to work at the XMP speeds / settings, so you should just enable XMP and call it a day. But if you can confirm that the RAM cannot run at XMP speeds, then the RAM is bad and an RMA would be justified. 

[Thane7]

1 minute ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Hmm yeah, I see what you mean - it is "interesting"... 

Do you possibly have a newer BIOS available for your motherboard? 

Also, you actually should only use XMP, and then only set settings manually, if you wanna push the RAM further or fx run with lower voltage. Remember, the RAM is tested to work at the XMP speeds / settings, so you should just enable XMP and call it a day. But if you can confirm that the RAM cannot run at XMP speeds, then the RAM is bad and an RMA would be justified. 

I've updated my bios to the latest version. I will try to test both ram sticks seperatly.