Hi, y'all!
I recently built myself this beast:
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600X
GPU: Gigabyte Aorus RX 5700 XT 8 GB
MBD: MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz
PSU: Seasonic Focus Plus 650W Gold (SSR-650FX)
At first, everything seemed alright, got Windows 10 installed on the SSD, made it a boot priority in the BIOS, the RAM was running in 3200MHz in XMP profile, everything was fantastic.
I have now been using it for the past 3-4 days and unfortunately, 1 out of 5 times it will just refuse to boot. All of the case/component lights will come on, the fans will start spinning, but the monitor's screen will not turn on. The small CPU light on the motherboard appears to light up in steady red only for the times this does happen. When I do finally manage to get it to boot after 2-3 hard resets, the red light is not glowing at all. The same problem happens if I decide to restart it - I just hope to get a lucky boot lol.
I have been researching the Internet for the past few hours and at first, I was able to find a lot of people being in a similar situation, managing to fix the issue by disabling Windows Fast Startup which is the first thing I did, but it did not work.
I then went on, hoping to find another solution and came across a lot of people having the exact same issue as me, using 3200MHz RAM, resolving it by lowering their RAM frequencies to 2133 or 2933, complaining about these MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max motherboards not booting every time when going above 2933 RAM on 3600X, even though the advertised frequencies of the motherboard are way beyond that. I am not a tech God by any means, but I do have a very good knowledge of PCs, and if I had to put my money on the table for this matter, this is the case with me as well.
A temporary solution that comes up to my mind is to put the PC in sleep mode when not using it.
The PC was not assembled by me, but by the tech guys which I bought it from. A local trusted tech shop with a good name. For the times I did manage to get it running, the machine was fast as lightning, played heavy games on max settings for hours at the expected framerates, which led me to believe that there is no chance that these guys messed something up and did not assemble it properly.
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My question is simple - does anybody manage to boot Ryzen 3600X every time with this motherboard running at 3200MHz RAM, so that I know if I should consider replacing it with another one, since everything is brand new and is in warranty, or if I should look for a different B450/potentially X470 motherboard.
Hope I did not bore you with my long post, just wanted to provide as much information as possible.
Thank you for your time reading and possibly sharing your thoughts on this.
- sphyNx
I recently built myself this beast:
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600X
GPU: Gigabyte Aorus RX 5700 XT 8 GB
MBD: MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz
PSU: Seasonic Focus Plus 650W Gold (SSR-650FX)
At first, everything seemed alright, got Windows 10 installed on the SSD, made it a boot priority in the BIOS, the RAM was running in 3200MHz in XMP profile, everything was fantastic.
I have now been using it for the past 3-4 days and unfortunately, 1 out of 5 times it will just refuse to boot. All of the case/component lights will come on, the fans will start spinning, but the monitor's screen will not turn on. The small CPU light on the motherboard appears to light up in steady red only for the times this does happen. When I do finally manage to get it to boot after 2-3 hard resets, the red light is not glowing at all. The same problem happens if I decide to restart it - I just hope to get a lucky boot lol.
I have been researching the Internet for the past few hours and at first, I was able to find a lot of people being in a similar situation, managing to fix the issue by disabling Windows Fast Startup which is the first thing I did, but it did not work.
I then went on, hoping to find another solution and came across a lot of people having the exact same issue as me, using 3200MHz RAM, resolving it by lowering their RAM frequencies to 2133 or 2933, complaining about these MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max motherboards not booting every time when going above 2933 RAM on 3600X, even though the advertised frequencies of the motherboard are way beyond that. I am not a tech God by any means, but I do have a very good knowledge of PCs, and if I had to put my money on the table for this matter, this is the case with me as well.
A temporary solution that comes up to my mind is to put the PC in sleep mode when not using it.
The PC was not assembled by me, but by the tech guys which I bought it from. A local trusted tech shop with a good name. For the times I did manage to get it running, the machine was fast as lightning, played heavy games on max settings for hours at the expected framerates, which led me to believe that there is no chance that these guys messed something up and did not assemble it properly.
---
My question is simple - does anybody manage to boot Ryzen 3600X every time with this motherboard running at 3200MHz RAM, so that I know if I should consider replacing it with another one, since everything is brand new and is in warranty, or if I should look for a different B450/potentially X470 motherboard.
Hope I did not bore you with my long post, just wanted to provide as much information as possible.
Thank you for your time reading and possibly sharing your thoughts on this.
- sphyNx
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