Wanna skip to a particular part of the video? Use the Time Stamps. :) Time Stamps 0:00 - your PC may not support your RAM's XMP 0:12 - XMP stability symptoms 0:38 - your XMP is too fast for your Memory Controller 1:36 - what to do to fix it 2:13 - if you've got a black screen, don't worry 2:48 - how to clear your motherboards CMOS 4:12 - how to get at least some of our RAM's performance back 5:56 - I am NOT a RAM overclocking expert
there is an easier way then your trial and error method. gogle with your phone or let a friend google your cpu. ther it gives you the rating of your chip. match it or just be below that and you are golden
@@coltmccoy1195 if you expierence the blue screen of death (or blackscreen) and thats not the issue you might have one of 2 Issues: 1.(most likely if you just upgraded your ram or moved your pc a lot) the contacts of your ram sticks might have slipped out. to fix it pull out every stick and put them all back propperly. 2: you might have a faulty ram stick. try another ram stick set if you have one or if you have multiple sticks put in, pull them out seperately (and put the remaining in the configuration specified by your motherboards manual for single channel if you have either 3 or 1 stick left) this way you should find the faulty ram stick. If that doesnt help your PC *MIGHT* already be bricked.
Is there any way to go through the process without the reset? I applied new timings and can not boot. Palit GPU lights keep flashing white. Tried output through integrated graphics and that doesn't work either. I really don't want to reset my entire bios
Awesome video! I recently got a nice prebuilt and noticed the memory speed running at 2666, and wanted to enable xmp to take advantage of the full 3200. Was reconsidering after looking into how it could potentially make the system less stable, but now I have enough info to be confident in tinkering that I can undo any mistakes if they happen. We'll see how it goes! Thanks!
good video. you should have mentioned that a bios update might help as well. A lot of ASUS MBs have problem with XMP (both DDR4 and DDR5 - talking Alder Lake here) But even for older generations; look to make sure you have the most recent bios flashed. Also, if it is working at some level now; make sure you save the bios settings or take pictures so you can at least get back to what you had before you start updating bios and trying xmp and xmp 2 . good video though. thanks.
My games were freezing and couldn't do anything about it after I upgraded my Rams, I reinstalled the windows, updated the drivers, did some settings, and bought new Rams even.. put thermal paste on my GPU and still didn't fix the freezing. I looked at many videos till I got you and I entered the Bios and Lowered my XMP from 3200 to 3000 and now no more freezing, happy days! Just wanna say a big thank you for your well-done work.
Bro thank you so much for making this. been running at base 2133mhz for 2 YEARS now because XMP kept crashing and most of the other ram overclocking guides were wayy too complicated. breaking it down like this for beginners was a huge lifesaver. Was going to go upgrade my ram to 32gb just cause rust was borderline unplayable with stuttering right as i or the enemy run into each other and shoot. now will test and hopefully not have to spend for no real reason besides that. Thanks again!
Yeah, especially when this topic, and tbh most things that regard pc issues, are so hard to search for. When you can't properly identify your problem and can't find a tutorial anywhere. I just happened to stumble on this video and went "Why hasn't this shown up sooner!" But yeah.
Good video :) I put on XMP and my RAM got set to 3600Mhz which caused crashes in games etc so i put it down to 2133Mhz and it all disappeared and worked fine. I use an I5-12400f which intel says SHOULD work up to 3200Mhz at ddr4. I'm now at 3100Mhz and it works fine but will try to see if i can get it to work at 3600Mhz ^
i have the same microprocessor but i can't use any other frequency than 2133mhz. the memories are 3200mhz, but I can't use them even with 3000mhz the games are closed.
This video explains a lot about the problems I have been having lately with my system. I'm running into the same issues you are talking about but I have a 5900X with 3600MHZ ram that I have been using for about a year now and it was just fine up until recently. Now I have to disable XMP to get my system stable. Are you saying that now I have to downclock my RAM even though it should work with my CPU?
It is not always the memory controller who is lacking, could also be the motherboard. Some boards might also need some help to get some clocks running, like fiddling with voltages yourself, enabling Gear down mode or 2T. Fiddling with SOC voltage and or dram voltage might also help. Same goes with ProcODT, RttNom, RttWr, RttPark and the four DrvStr settings. Loosening some timings does might help too. Checking if your motherboard does support the specific RAM sticks you bought might also be a good idea.
@@Fondofmelobster Searching about it is a good start I would say. You might also find some technical documentation and& or people summarizing some of those... I personally learned through a lot of curiosity & try and error. If I had to guess this can be studied in much deeper ways though... Don't change anything you don't understand though! You might harm your hardware.
have asus prime z690 i9 12900k same problems 16gb ripjaws v ddr4 3600 have also a uncore freq 3600 to 4700 on 2133 no problem on xmp 1or 2 3602 problems also on 3200 have problems bios are update no differnts i feel rip off
@Maraksot78 I am having the same issues with the rams I bought which are for DDR5. One of the first rams I got first was XPG ADATA 32GB (16x2) 5200mhz which gave me the same issues in this video and the other was Trident G Skill 6000mhz, and I am using 12900k with ROG strix motherboard and still having these issues. They were brand new, and at first i thought the XPG was faulty so I got it replace with Trident 6000mhz but still had the same issues.
Also have Trident 6000 mghz ram at CL 36 and the XMP isn't stable. Can't seem to figured out what to do. I have a feeling the memory controller can't handle it idk.
Hello good video man! btw, I am experiencing some crashes where my screen goes black and I have to turn off the PC, it happens when I am gaming or in the desktop, I thought it was a temperature problem, but no, I check the rams for problems but nothing appeared, I also check the storage but nothing... what confuses me is that it can happen whille gaming or not gaming and the problems apears like twice a week only... I don't now what to do!!! Im thinking tha can be my HDD but I already test it... maybe when it reads a part of the disc it crashes idk.
I didn't realize that this was even a thing until I stumbled on your video. All I know is that when I had xmp enabled my games would crash and memtest86 showed a bunch of errors. That was fixed by disabling xmp. Only NOW do I know that I can step down my xmp profile thanks to your video. Thumbs up and subscribed! btw, I went down from 6400 MT/s to 6200 and now everything works fine.
@@thetruthhurts5902 Check that all four Dims are seated snuggly. If that doesn't help, isolate the ram by testing a 1 dimm configuration, trying with each dimm to see if one is bad. If that works then try combinations of 2, etc. Your motherboard documents will tell you which slots for each set (1,2,3, or 4 dimms). If it isn't the ram then it could be the motherboard or possbily the bios.
ok i did this and my xmp still crashed but i found this video showing to trun on the PBO power boost overdrive and now my xmp is working like it should i have been looking for a fix for this for ever
i had this same issue when i upgrade my ram to 4 sticks 32gb running at 3600mhz. my cpu a ryzen 7 3700x could only do 4 sticks of 3200mhz. after i did this my games seems to stop crashing and all problems went away. make sure you just look up your cpu and see the max it can run
I am using gigabyte b660m..and if i use my ram on A2 and B2 slot ..i can use my ram 3600mhz using xmp..but if i use my ram in A1 and B1 ram slot my pc crashes if enable xmp..i have to use the default ram mhz
Im having an issue where I was able to run XMP 5600 ddr5 for the last year and my system is able to run much higher into the 7000's but randomly the other day it decided I cannot use xmp anymore or it boot loops then goes to the bios finally... Have no idea how to fix this issue and now its even saying in corsair it is only letting me use 1 ram stick to monitor or use with rgb because one is running expo and another xmp or something which makes zero sense...
i have 3200 mhz ram and its working 2133 mhz now when i set it 3200 in bios settigs my pc wont boot its howing entering power saving mode with black screen please help
Thank you. My 11400 on a gigabyte b560 MB, I could never turn on XMP. It just crashes randomly. So been using with XMP off for the last 2 years. I saw your Video and now turned on XMP with 3066 and been running Valley, 3dmark stress test and cinebench on a loop for the past 48 hours. Also Diablo 4 for a few hours. So far no crashes.
The minimum that I can give you is a like for the help that you gave me. I don't wish that fear for my worst enemy what I have felt when I got the black screen. I have popped the battery out and back just how you told to and after that my old PSU cabel decided to give up and give me a few more heart attacks by turning off my PC several times. I switched my cable asap and my pc works just like it did before. Thank you so much! You saved me really!
Could be just cheap RAM but could also be cheap motherboard that just doesn't handle well going higher even tho it might be in the official spec. Five years ago you could get top notch mobo for around 120-150dollars/euros now you need to spend 200 minimum to even get into overclocking RAM and CPU game, without PC randomly crashing and worst case not even booting. Learned this hard way when building first custom gaming PC but the extra 15-20% boost isn't worth it unless you care about extra 10FPS
hi all, i have this problem: my ram goes 3600 xmp 1 and 3000 xmp2. i have a i5 12400f so i read that its max is 3200 (the multiplier?). how can i go for 3200? do i need to leave xmp 1 and modify the memory ref. clock? the mobo is z690 UD gigabyte ddr4 thanks
Took the battery out twice , still stuck with a no signal screen. I even tried taking the new Ram out and the old back in . Still black screen . Helppppppppp please 🙏🏻
@@abdulsubhan7232 I put the original Ram back in, just to access the bios . Once I did I changed it to default settings. Once my pc worked again… I then turned everything off and reinstalled the ram again… worked… then made the proper changes I needed in the bios
@@2KDay bro my pc spec and ram is at 3600, it's at 2133 rn and when I try to switch it to 3600 my computer just starts and goes off over and over again please help me bro🙏🙏😔
I’ve Corsair Vengeance DDR5 (6400) When I turned XMP my pc crashed all the time even I faced blue screen sometimes! anyone know how I can fix it please
I’ve run into the exact same issue. I have an X570 taichi, 5600X, 4x8GB TRIDENT z.skill rated at 3600MHz and I can only get things to run smoothly at 3400MHZ.
For some reason this was the most simple and helpful video. I’m building my first PC ryzen 9 5900x/ RTX 3080 and I bought too much ram, 16gb ddr4 Tridentz 4800 mhz. I know I probably can’t run this speed but I’ll probably start at 3700-4000 mhz and just wanted to see how to simply change it without fucking with all those crazy timings. THANK YOU!!!!! 🙏🏽
So how much can the ryzen 5900x handle?? I have the same specs with a 3080ti and ddr4 32gb 4600mhz ram And i am trying to get the most from it It would be very helpful if you reply
Thank you very much!!! :) It did work for me for a MSI B550-A Pro and Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200 setup. When I turned the default XMP on for DDR4-3200, I was getting random crashes while gaming. I even updated the bios as a last resort, but it kept crashing. So I switched to the next lower available speed listed, 3133 in my case, and it worked like a charm. :) Thanks again and keep the nice videos coming
@@pablorodriguez4217bro I have same motherboard and I am facing this same issues but not while doing gaming all time but also doing normal stuff now I will turn it off and set it to lower thanks man for help😢
Sir u save my life i just change my board my rams my supply everything but when my friend suggest this video and now i fixed my solution sir thanks alot
I removed the battery and now my PC just loads to a black screen with the name of the PC and 3584 MB displayed and won't boot into windows 😑 I hate watching tutorials so much. Always screws me over worse than I started.
@@aj-ln4by ok so you just have to wait a bit and try again. After I put the battery back, it went black screen with the MB info displayed. But then after turning it off and waiting like 30 mins it booted normally. The problem ended up being that I was putting 4 gigs of ram in a 2 gig spot 🤣 lol. So make sure you check how much can go in each slot. For example if you wanna get 16 gbs you may have to buy 4 2gbs instead of two 4 gbs in each slot yknow?
Any reason why I had been using 3200mhz 16gb of ram before, and now I switch to a different brand, 3200mhz 32 gb of ram this time, and my XMP will not let me pc post. I don’t get why just upgrading the amount of ram and changing the brand will do this?
I have a i7 11700K cpu, Motherboard aorus z590 master, and Ram PNY 16Gb to 3200 but xmp, give blue screen, i try with 3066 and look stable, 3100 also crash, withou xmp my ram run to 2133
Thanks solution worked for me, I had the black screen after installing 64GB of ram . When I lowered the speed from 3200MHz to 3166MHz the system booted up without issue. Wish I knew more about computers - feel like I'm in the dark most of the time. You are a great instructor.
I bought a 2x8 Corsair vengence RGB 3200 : XMP works. I bought a 2x16 vengeance RGB 3600 : XMP doenst work and put in manual doesnt work to... go back to my 3200 !
Hello, I have a problem, I activate the xmp profile on my computer but I don't receive an image, and removing the battery from the motherboard or using Clr_cmos nothing happens, it still doesn't give me an image to access the bios, what could I do in this case?
@@miguelramos5622 Hey, i solved only buying a new motherboard, since the BIOS was completely erased from my motherboard and there was no solution, I took it to many technicians and none of them gave me a solution.
OMG!!! THANK YOU!! The past 2 days I been getting crashes, and once I found out it wasn't just one game but a couple of games doing it, I narrowed it down to RAM and GPU issues. Then after I remembered I had to reset my BIOS back to default over something that turned out to be dumb 2 days ago, I searched RU-vid and found your video. There was one little setting I forgot to change back in BIOS after the reset. Gave this video a thumbs up and subbed!!
this not always mean that the memory controller is bad, but it can mean that the memory itself is the problem and it cant get to the speed that it's rated. it's pretty rare, but it happens, i have to put my ram at 2933mhz so some games dont crash
Hey there, I just wanted to say thank you for this quick tutorial. A friend of mine recommended me to just turn on XMP but little I knew what I issues this would cause over the next weeks. Long story short my CPU only supports a maximum of 3200 speed but the ram goes to 4000. It caused games like Dead By Daylight and Fortnite to consistantly crash, not even the support could help (20 emails back and forth until they ran out of ideas and dipped me) 30 Minutes ago I tried to repair windows files, it crashed 3 times until the system didnt even boot up anymore. I followed your video, removed the battery on the mainboard and it magically boots up again. I checked the ram speed and it was back to 2133 which I set to 3200. THank you so much for this video. If I only knew this video existed earlier but now I know! CHECK YOUR COMPABILITIES GUYS!
Sorry you had to go through the nightmare of RAM instability. I know how frustrating and worrisome it can be. I'm super happy you found the video though and it helped you out. Cheers.
Bro please help my pc and ram is supposed to be at 3600, its at 2133 rn but when i try to change it to 3600 my computer just starts and stops over and over again please help🤕🙏🙏🙏😔😔 Edit: even switching it to xms or D O C P it still does not work😢
I think XMP is enabled by default on my motherboard... Had some problems with the computer, tried fiddling with the BIOS settings, decided to try enabling XMP and BAM, black screen! Clearing the CMOS doesn't help... Going to have to experiment with taking out some RAM now I guess!
I had the same problem, just built a monster pc with a 4080 i9 13600k 7200hz ram etc etc, everything was going well and dandy until I was playing OW2 I had enabled dlss I was running 400fps+ until my pc was about 30min in it shut off. I checked drivers a bunch of times I tried checking temperatures it was all fine I checked my extension cables, the 12hvpwr or whatever cable basically everything ! Then I checked the bios just to see if anything I had changed in there was a bit off so I saw that my ram said 7400ghz and that stood out to me I went to check and the one I had bought was for 7200 so I reboot the pc with that setting and oh brother I was able to open cyberpunk and everything 😩 ! Relief !!!!
💀 I just got AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D, and MSI X670E TOMAHAWK WIFI, and Corsair Vengeance 4x32GB 6400MHz Because pcpartpicker said this was compatible. Just spent a whole day trying to figure this out. The RAM controller is in the CPU, and that CPU can only support 3600MHz 💀💀
Just had all the problems mentioned in the video and if yall do experience it, CHANGE it right away because unfortunately for me, I didn’t realize why all these things were happening and I updated all my drivers, checked all the components and didn’t think twice because of my cpu. Now I can’t boot my pc anymore and my cpu is now faulty and probably fried from all that ram. I did have a 2600x Ryzen CPU and should’ve did more digging in information when buying ram but didn’t realize it was ruining it so now I have to buy a new CPU :(
Can somebody help me, i use x470 gaming 7 wifi + ryzen 3600, when i use F51 BIOS i can run the RAM to 3800 flawlessly, after i update to latest bios F63D i cant even run XMP 3333, when i OC my ram i will get BSOD, so in F63D i can only use 2400 and no BSOD, so its bios fault right ? Because when i roll back to F51 i can run smooth again to 3800
My cpu can only read 2933 mhz but I get 3200 mhz because Lenux said it is ok. Huge mistake, when my laptop do hard work like automatic virus scan same time I watch video while open web and research about series that I watching and explanations that I don't understand. Blue screen and other blue screens occured after first blue screen. sfx / scannow fix some essues, and then get my antivirus vulnerability fix automatic update like windows auto update. I suspected auto windows update are 100 percent guilty of auto shotdowns or bluescreens.
I updated CPU and now my PC shutsdown like every 30 mins. If I disable XMP, everything is fine.. I have no idea what to replace lol. Is it a faulty psu or mobo? ram passed the vibe check on memtest86
pls help i have vengance 32gb 6000mhz and if i put the ram 5000+ i get black screen but if i put it 4200 everything is fine but when i play games i get small lag spikes like lets say a teamfight in league of legends the moment it starts i get a lag spike for few seconds and fps is not stable i got 7950x3d cpu and 4080 rtx gpu
Thank you so much i was having issues when setting my Xmp to it's base profile of 3200mhz rated speed and could not boot into windows and i set it down to 3000mhz and works like a charm went from 2133mhz to 3000mhz thx!
Great video but I wish folks would say upfront when they say "upgrading ram is SO EASY!!!" that issues like this make it much harder. I F***D my pc upgrading the "EASY RAM" lol
I just put in ddr5 32gb 5600 cl 28 and amd 7700 cpu and asus prime b650m-a ax motherboard should been no problem but battlefield 5 bluescreen.idk what to adjust😢
Lesson learned to never fucking update my nvidia drivers ever again. What a nightmare PCs are. Wish I'd stuck with consoles, my god. Also this fix still hasn't helped me still black screen but pc lights and fans working. End me.
@@joshdough2824 well after removing the battery and installing it again i just rebooted the computer but still it wasn't booting so i just shut the system down entirely and after a min i restart it again and i got an error message that there was a problem with the recent bios setting so i just set it to again default and then i was back in windows
I tried doing this with my ram I have right now, and I’m sitting at the 4000 mhz base speed on my 6000 mhz ram. I have an i9 12900k that supports up to 4800 and a motherboard that goes well above 6000 but my pc won’t be stable unless it’s 4000. So stupid
Thanks for this video bro it means the world. I have been dealing with the exact problems that you explained in the video for over a year now, and I fixed it thanks to you ❤
Mine goes black screen when i enable it i used to run at 3600 and then my sytem crashed after a few years and now i cant and stuck at 2133 and my bios is difforwnt is the memory multiplyer the same as the memery freqency because mine doesnt change my xmp profile
HI bro finally i got it thank you for teach me, been trying to change from 2400 mhz to 3600 mhz, always black when changes on bios, finally now can thank youuu
Hello guys please help, my pc all of a sudden goes to black screen, the sound is still there, everything is light on but not usable, then after minutes the keyboard, microphone goes off and the sound too, my gpu looks like it restarts itself as it goes from the color i set to it to the default color as if i just turned on my pc, nothing works until i force shutdown then turn it on again, and it happens again, anyone please can help me with this? i already tried the RAM solution but it has nothing to do with it, gpu and cpu temp are so normal, so if someone been through the same situation please help, GPU is RTX 3080
Everyday I have to take out my ram and put it back in for my pc to start or start back up after randomly crashing and cutting off. I just bought 4 new ram and my pc is still cutting off or not starting at times
I go to my bios it says it has been disabled when i go to xnp set up to 3600 when i go save and exit my pc turns off and on reapetedly i have crashes non stop and blu screens
I experienced a same with expensive premium stuffs... Asus rog srix z690 + i9 12900KF (supported speed 4800), I cannot setup Kingston 2x16GB 6000 or 2x32GB 5600 DDR5... I bought Asus rog strix z790 (motherboard promise 7800 speed) + i9 13900KF (supported speed 5600), and I got blue screen running stress test when XMP 5600 was activiated, so the stable base speed is only 4800. It seems like a lottery game, we need pay a lot for higher speed, and there is no guarantie it works. It is a scam.
OK........yep nailed it..I had 6000 rated ram and set it for that speed.....Whoa....5 minute bootups. Dropped it by 200 mghz.......30 second boots. No brainer
Thanks for the amazing video it was very helpful. my cpu ran my previous ram just fine at 3600mhz but at the time was only 2 sticks. when i upgraded my ram and now had 4 stick the memory controller probably couldn't run all 4 sticks at that high of speed.
@@MitchellTheMitch ayo I fixed it but you won’t like it it was a bad ram stick for me take one out and run that for a day and see if you get the crash if so try the other stick if one is bad you’ll need a new set. If the ram is new you can try to exchange it. If you have any questions respond and I’ll see it in my email
ive yet to experience crashes and bsod (knock on wood). What i have been experiencing is much much slower boot times. from when i press my power button on my case it would take around 15-20 seconds give or take. now AFTER enabling XMP it'll take 2-3 full entire minutes of just loading and my monitors being on grey/ black screen. Any tips or ideas of what the issue could be? SPECS: CPU: i9-12900K GPU: 3090 RAM: 4x16 DDR4 3600MHz MOBO: Asus ROG STRIX Z-690A
Reseating the ram also occasionally allows you to get into bios, try one stick instead of two to get into bios, then go back to 2 or 4. Cmos is annoying
I've done all of this and I still have a black screen. I've tried removing some of my RAM (Thinking I maybe fried it) and moved it around, I tried to remove my new GPU and installed my old one (Thinking maybe the GPU got fried) and nothing works. I did try a fresh BIOS using FLBK with the USB on the MOBO back panel - that didn't work. I tried the screwdriver on the CLRTC and also took out the battery for 15 min and nothing worked. I'm still not seeing anything on my monitor when I boot up. PC Specs: Mobo is the Asus Rog Strix B550-F wifi, CPU is Ryzen 7 5800x, GPU is GeForce RTX 3060 OC(12gb), the RAM is hyperx 32gb 2666mhz and I replaced it with what I thought was Kingston HyperX 32gb 3200mhz but when I tried to Overclock using DOCP, my computer would boot up but I don't see anything on my PC monitor. Therefore, I can't go back into the BIOS settings.
At the beginning I had 2 16 Gb modules with XMP at 4400 MHz, at first I had random crash errors while playing, but I resolved them later With the values at hand, now I have 32 GB in 4 equal modules, but the system no longer starts, I even have to remove 2 modules to be able to activate the XMP, but I have the same problems as before, how could I solve it?
I build my new pc, everything starts but i dont get an image on screen, no bios no windows etc. the dram led on my mainboard is on constant orange light, i have a Asus Z790 F Mainboard, DDR5 Corsair (2 x 32 gb) 6000mhz Ram ( c30) and an i9 13900k on the website for the mainboard i found it supports the exact same ram but instread of c30, it sais c40 does this small difference really makes my pc not working ?
