Question Corsair 3600 ram for ryzen 3600 and x570 board

[mattcitko1999]

So I decided to go from a Corsair 16gb 3200 kit to a Corsair 32gb 3600 kit. Initially I tried swapping them out and nothing, the ex-debug led on the msi board stayed on cpu. Bios was old (2021) had issued getting it to read off the usb drive but just managed to update to one from 07/24 still nothing. Update the chipset drivers, tried the ram with xmp enable and disabled. Checked the ram, it is the correct pair. Msi's website doesnt specifiacally list this ram on the compatability list but on the specs it should support 3600mHz while running xmp. Either way I think it would run it just at a lower clock speed, I would adjust it but it won't even get to bios, old ram the led's on the board go right through to boot, new ram it just stays on the cpu one. Anything else to try? Or did I just get a bad set?

Specs
ryzen 5 3600
Msi x570 gaming plus
2070 super
corsair 16gb vengeance pro 3200 CMW16GX4M2C3200C16 - new set CMH32GX4M2D3600C18
Corsair hx1000i

 

[Lutfij]

What BIOS version are you currently on for your motherboard? Rams are populating slots A2 and B2, per your motherboard manual?

Bios was old (2021) had issued getting it to read off the usb drive but just managed to update to one from 07/24 still nothing.
You mean BIOS version 7C37vAN or 7C37vAO ? Did you clear the CMOS after verifying you'd flashed the BIOS to a latter one?

 

[mattcitko1999]

What BIOS version are you currently on for your motherboard? Rams are populating slots A2 and B2, per your motherboard manual?

Bios was old (2021) had issued getting it to read off the usb drive but just managed to update to one from 07/24 still nothing.
You mean BIOS version 7C37vAN or 7C37vAO ? Did you clear the CMOS after verifying you'd flashed the BIOS to a latter one?

So it was running 7C37vAE currently on 7C37vAO which is the most up to date without being the beta one. Ram is in correct dual channel A2 & B2. Only thing I haven't tried is clearing cmos after the update. Gonna do that later and try again.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

So it was running 7C37vAE currently on 7C37vAO which is the most up to date without being the beta one. Ram is in correct dual channel A2 & B2. Only thing I haven't tried is clearing cmos after the update. Gonna do that later and try again.

Yes, clearing CMOS needs to be done on every bios upgrade/rollback.

Also, at 3200mt/s you could have set your mem clock/infinity fabric clock/mem controller clock at a 1:1:1 ratio which would give you the best latency. Your CPU's IMC is not strong enough to go 1:1:1 with 3600mt/s, so in a way your 3200mt/s ram is actually gonna provide better latency than faster ram.

 

[mattcitko1999]

Yes, clearing CMOS needs to be done on every bios upgrade/rollback.

Also, at 3200mt/s you could have set your mem clock/infinity fabric clock/mem controller clock at a 1:1:1 ratio which would give you the best latency. Your CPU's IMC is not strong enough to go 1:1:1 with 3600mt/s, so in a way your 3200mt/s ram is actually gonna provide better latency than faster ram.

Yeah I’ll clear cmos before trying again.

So as far as latency, could I tune this new one down to 3200 and then run it at 1:1:1? I would still have the benefit of 32gb just at the same as old ram. It should max out at 3200 anyway without xmp on.

 

[mattcitko1999]

So just reset cmos and tried new kit, nothing. Put in old kit, restarted a couple times after the cmos clearn and booted up. I also tried going into bios to change the ram frequency from the manually set 3200 to auto , tired new kit and nothing. Old kit no problem, boots up.

 

[Bob.B]

So I decided to go from a Corsair 16gb 3200 kit to a Corsair 32gb 3600 kit. Initially I tried swapping them out and nothing, the ex-debug led on the msi board stayed on cpu. Bios was old (2021) had issued getting it to read off the usb drive but just managed to update to one from 07/24 still nothing. Update the chipset drivers, tried the ram with xmp enable and disabled. Checked the ram, it is the correct pair. Msi's website doesnt specifiacally list this ram on the compatability list but on the specs it should support 3600mHz while running xmp. Either way I think it would run it just at a lower clock speed, I would adjust it but it won't even get to bios, old ram the led's on the board go right through to boot, new ram it just stays on the cpu one. Anything else to try? Or did I just get a bad set?

Specs
ryzen 5 3600
Msi x570 gaming plus
2070 super
corsair 16gb vengeance pro 3200 CMW16GX4M2C3200C16 - new set CMH32GX4M2D3600C18
Corsair hx1000i

Use just slot a2 and test each stick of ram.

 

[mattcitko1999]

Use just slot a2 and test each stick of ram.

So tried them indiviadually, the first one worked booted up no issues. Tried the same thing with the second stick and nothing. Tried both after the first one worked and nothing. Looks like only one works.

 

[Bob.B]

So tried them indiviadually, the first one worked booted up no issues. Tried the same thing with the second stick and nothing. Tried both after the first one worked and nothing. Looks like only one works.

It looks like you have 1 stick that's busted.......contact the merchant.

 

[mattcitko1999]

So new set just came in and no issues, boots right up. Only thing is that even with the xmp profile 1 enabled at 3600mHz its still running it at 3200.

 

[Bob.B]

So new set just came in and no issues, boots right up. Only thing is that even with the xmp profile 1 enabled at 3600mHz its still running it at 3200.

You might want to try clearing the bios.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Clear CMOS: https://forum-en.msi.com/faq/article/printer/how-to-clear-the-cmos

Then check again.