RAM Running at low MHz

[Kenso]

Hi!

After some troubleshooting, googling and black magic, i have still not found why my memory wont clock at an "advertised" speed at 4000MHz DDr4, from what i understand 1 single ram stick should run at 2000MHz when in a DDR4 setup turning it in to 4000MHz with both sticks, but correct me if i'm wrong. 

Problem: RAM speed is locked at 1200MHz, tried turning on XMP 1 and 2, this causes ram to crash, tried to manually set it to: 1200-4000 it still crashes. updating bios did not help, updating drivers did not help. Its probably a super ez fix but my know how stops here.

 

I'm not getting any error codes except for "after last changes pc starts in safe mode press f1 to start bios"

 

[Bombastinator]

How are you getting that 1200 MHz reading?  “Black magic” is not a helpful descriptor of what might or might not have been attempted.  I suggest first you wipe the goats blood off the machine.  And put out the black candles.  
 

Did you activate automatic memory overclock? (Three letter acronym but it’s escaping me atm.  I hate aphasia) 

Edited January 22, 2023 by Bombastinator

[Jonny_hikingferal]

I highly recommend taking the opportunity to learn how to overclock your RAM manually, it will likely fix your issue, just give it the maximum possible safe voltage and start at a conservative 3000mhz, don't touch the timings only the speed. My ram is at 1.45v i think at 3333mhz and has been for over a year 247, doesn't even get warm. The reason i suggest this is you are probably overlooking something as it's not easy to kill a stick of RAM even if you try to. If you don't feel you are willing to do that then without being in your house and looking in your computer all i can say is check RAM is seated correctly and in the correct slots, check all cables and CPU are connected properly etc etc.

[Kenso]

8 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

How are you getting that 1200 MHz reading?  “Black magic” is not a helpful descriptor of what might or might not have been attempted.  I suggest first you wipe the goats blood off the machine.  And put out the black candles.  
 

Did you activate automatic memory overclock? (Three letter acronym but it’s escaping me atm.  I hate aphasia) 

Hi! 

 

I have been using NZXT Cam (put a SS in the Original post) where it showes default frequency is at 1200, i can also use monitoring at it shows Default 1200MHZ, and current at 1199MHz.
I also have the problem where i do have 16gb but it shows that i'm using 70% of my ram at 6gb usage.

The Automatic memory overclock i belive is the XMP,  i do not remember what it stand for atm. But yes, i did try that and it only threw RAM errors at me and launched in safe mode, as soon as i turn it back to "stock" or "auto" as it says in my Bios, it works fine but it shows use of 1200mhz

 

Thanks!

[Kenso]

7 hours ago, Jonny_hikingferal said:

I highly recommend taking the opportunity to learn how to overclock your RAM manually, it will likely fix your issue, just give it the maximum possible safe voltage and start at a conservative 3000mhz, don't touch the timings only the speed. My ram is at 1.45v i think at 3333mhz and has been for over a year 247, doesn't even get warm. The reason i suggest this is you are probably overlooking something as it's not easy to kill a stick of RAM even if you try to. If you don't feel you are willing to do that then without being in your house and looking in your computer all i can say is check RAM is seated correctly and in the correct slots, check all cables and CPU are connected properly etc etc.

Seams like i will need to go down that rabbit hole yes.

I Can say that i noticed i had put the ram in the wrong slot, but i belive i did that due to the CPU cooler being put in with the water cooling lines over the first slot (smart of me i know) and i have now moved them without it helping any at all, stil locked at 1200-11900MHz. 

Let se if i have the magic hands to kill a stick of ram!

Thanks!