BSOD when XMP Is Enabled

ok thanks, I'll report back tomorrow!

Thanks guys for the help. If you see me post again tonight, I'm on my other PC. Thank goodness for two PCs!

ok.

Ran memtest first with XMP enabled and it had so many errors it aborted! Running it at stock settings atm and no errors so far.

swarfega said:

Should I enable XMP?

zbook said:

Not at this time.
Please maintain everything at stock.

The RAM testing can be run overnight.

Though enabling XMP may be considered an "overclock", bear in mind the memory you bought was designed to run at 3200MHz, not 2133, therefor by that definition, the memory is running "below" its stock speeds.

That said, you could "manually" push the ram up to it's rated speed of 3200MHz, timings and voltage without using XMP.

I'm not trying to dismiss the help and suggestions here, if you have BSOD's this is the place to be. However, your issues are RAM centric, and that's where you need to look. In choosing to go to a different BIOS you seemed to have solved the issue. I'm thus saying let that issue play out before confounding things with other stuff that may not be necessary.

Also realize XMP is actually designed to get the RAM to run at its rated speed as opposed to the industry JEDEC specification set at 2133. Yes, you could run at 2133, but this is not going to tell you if the memory is problematic running in it's designed XMP mode. And again, you can manually set without using XMP, though XMP would be doing the same thing wile taking the guesswork out.

Anyway as I said, that site is the best place to look since they specialize in your board so they should have an answer to your RAM questions. For BSOD's this is the place to be.

My two cents.

What is XMP - What are XMP profiles and how do I use them?

I would like to run it at it's rated speed, but I'm a little over my head on that department so will need some help with the timings to get it to that speed.

swarfega said:

I would like to run it at it's rated speed, but I'm a little over my head on that department so will need some help with the timings to get it to that speed.

As I said, XMP will allow you to run it at it's rated speed. And why I say leave XMP enabled since you changed (downgraded) the BIOS and go from there. If you still continue to get BSOD's consider RMA'ing the memory if its within its return period.

In the meantime, do keep in mind what zbook found, but understand the suspected bad BIOS causing the memory issues may have caused the other issues.

And thinking about it, It's probably not a bad idea to let the memory run at 2133 for a couple of days to really find out if the memory is bad. Then enable XMP and run from there. If no BSOD's you can probably blame the BIOS you replaced.

And again, I'd at the very least ask the question at overclock.net. As I said, they've a large user base using that board. As I've said, never used an AMD board so I'm coming from an Intel perspective. However the basic systems aren't that drastically different.

My two cents.

Currently I am on F11 which is the latest version and running memtest with so far no errors and XMP disabled.

Once the first test is complete, do I have to reboot to the USB stick and run the second batch?

The last time I ran Memtest was with the first gen i7 processors. Had no need since. That said, I don't know what you mean by "second batch". If you mean tests, I'd think all the tests can be run without a reboot, but...

Here's a tutorial - MemTest86+ - Test RAM With

Zbook said the free version will only run 4 passes so it needs to be run twice to make 8 passes.

It's on pass 68% test 0% Test 8 atm.