Slower boot time with XMP enabled.

[DutchGreen]

Ever since upgrading my RAM, I noticed my PC has been booting slower.

I was wondering how this could be the case, since I upgraded from a Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB 3200 C16 to 2x Patriot Viper Steel 2x8GB (so 4 sticks) 3600 C14.

 

I never really paid attention to old boot times because it was almost instant.

With XMP enabled my boot times are (give or take):

 

2-3 secs to post.

3 secs logo to boot into bios.

4-6 secs to login screen.

 

With XMP disabled:

2-3 secs to post.

3 secs logo to boot into bios.

1 sec to login screen.

 

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

 

For reference, AIDA64 does say XMP is in fact making it a lot faster:

 

XMP Disabled:

 

 

XMP Enabled:

[RONOTHAN##]

Download ZenTimings and send a screenshot of that, there are bad XMP profiles that exist, and that will show all the relevant memory settings. 

 

Something's definitely up with XMP enabled, it should be a bit better than what you're getting (though Aida's memory test is kinda a joke).

[DutchGreen]

3 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Download ZenTimings and send a screenshot of that, there are bad XMP profiles that exist, and that will show all the relevant memory settings. 

 

Something's definitely up with XMP enabled, it should be a bit better than what you're getting (though Aida's memory test is kinda a joke).

Alright, will do.

[DutchGreen]

7 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Download ZenTimings and send a screenshot of that, there are bad XMP profiles that exist, and that will show all the relevant memory settings. 

 

Something's definitely up with XMP enabled, it should be a bit better than what you're getting (though Aida's memory test is kinda a joke).

 

[DutchGreen]

Sidenote:

 

It's not on ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING - Support (asus.com), would that be an issue?

[RONOTHAN##]

3 minutes ago, DutchGreen said:

 

Nothing in there seems out of the ordinary, it looks like standard XMP settings, so the issue is probably elsewhere. Run a memory stress test of some sort (TestMem5 is a popular one) and see if there's memory instability, that can cause the system to have issues.

 

Just now, DutchGreen said:

Sidenote:

 

It's not on ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING - Support (asus.com), would that be an issue?

Theoretically it could, but it's not very common that it would be the issue. Viper Steel B die kits like the one you've got are pretty popular with Ryzen systems, with your setup not being too far out of the ordinary (albeit with a higher bin kit with an unusable XMP profile used for memory overclocking). 

[DutchGreen]

1 minute ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Nothing in there seems out of the ordinary, it looks like standard XMP settings, so the issue is probably elsewhere. Run a memory stress test of some sort (TestMem5 is a popular one) and see if there's memory instability, that can cause the system to have issues.

Sadly, I doubt it. Last night, I already ran memtest86 for 4 hours, and it finished with 0 errors. I'll try it out though.

1 minute ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Theoretically it could, but it's not very common that it would be the issue. Viper Steel B die kits like the one you've got are pretty popular with Ryzen systems, with your setup not being too far out of the ordinary (albeit with a higher bin kit with an unusable XMP profile used for memory overclocking). 

Alright, so I can (probably) cross incompatibility of the list too.

 

Thanks for the help, I'll keep looking.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

16 minutes ago, DutchGreen said:

memtest86

Thats a garbage ram test

 

Use hci memtest, tm5 anta profile, prime95 large ffts, any actually decent ram test and not hot garbage memtest86 that cant detect even the most unstable of rams

 

I also suggest trying to dial some generic bdie 3800-4000 overclock profile off the internet and see if it fixes your boot times cause stock xmp on bdie kits are meh at best compared to oc ability. Max safe volt is non existent as bdie dont seem to degrade from volt but keep under 1.7v due to imc degradarion concerns and under 1.5v w/o fan cause bdie is quite temp sensitive

[DutchGreen]

33 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Thats a garbage ram test

 

Use hci memtest, tm5 anta profile, prime95 large ffts, any actually decent ram test and not hot garbage memtest86 that cant detect even the most unstable of rams

 

I also suggest trying to dial some generic bdie 3800-4000 overclock profile off the internet and see if it fixes your boot times cause stock xmp on bdie kits are meh at best compared to oc ability. Max safe volt is non existent as bdie dont seem to degrade from volt but keep under 1.7v due to imc degradarion concerns and under 1.5v w/o fan cause bdie is quite temp sensitive

Alright, thanks. I didn't know that.

 

I just left it on for half an hour to see if it would pick up any errors instantly, but when I closed the program all the log said was:

========= TestMem5 Log File =========
Customize: Extreme1 @anta777
Start testing at 4:26, 1.5Gb x16
 

I guess I'll leave it on overnight to see if it picks up any errors.

[DutchGreen]

I messed up.

Apparently, what I mistook for slow booting due to XMP, was in fact slow booting because booting from a restart takes longer.

 

 

My bad.