Gigabyte B350 Gaming3 - Ryzen BIOS setting proglem

[johnczek]

Hello I just build a new PC.
Ryzen 5 1600
Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3
ADATA 8GB KIT DDR4 3200MHz CL16 XPG Z1

And I wanted to set up some things in BIOS. I wanted to overclock my CPU to 3.8 on 1.25V.
Then I wanted to set up my memory to 3200MHz. (Cause the CPU-Z told me the rams are running on DRAM frequency 1197)
When I saved the settings, PC turned off. Then turned on for 1 sec (even BIOS screen hadnt chance to display) and turned off. This happened 5 times (at total). Then PC boot normally. But with no settings saved. When I restarted PC (with BIOS entering) there was a message that BIOS had been reset.

Last thing I want to say is I have the last BIOS update (using the Gigabyte app centre)

Am I doing something wrong or its just a HW problem on my MB?

 

[Barty1884]

Did you do those things independent of one-another? Was your CPU OC stable before you bumped the RAM up?

Default for DDr4 is 2400 (or 1197x2 for "double data rate"), so that's why it's showing 1197 in CPU-Z. Unless you enable the XMP*-type profile in the BIOS.

Most Ryzen-compatible BIOS's are having issues with speeds >2666MHz (sometimes 29XXMHz) - and there's not going to be a lot** you can do to fix that until further BIOS revisions are released.

*Technically XMP is Intel only, but some board vendors call it something very similar.....and one, might be ASRock, just outright call it "XMP".

**You may have some success with manually setting the timings, opposed to using the XMP profile, but there's no guarantee just now and, if you managed to get 3200MHz running today, you'd probably be the only person who's achieved it with Ryzen.

 

[neieus]

Hello I just build a new PC.
Ryzen 5 1600
Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3
ADATA 8GB KIT DDR4 3200MHz CL16 XPG Z1

And I wanted to set up some things in BIOS. I wanted to overclock my CPU to 3.8 on 1.25V.
Then I wanted to set up my memory to 3200MHz. (Cause the CPU-Z told me the rams are running on DRAM frequency 1197)
When I saved the settings, PC turned off. Then turned on for 1 sec (even BIOS screen hadnt chance to display) and turned off. This happened 5 times (at total). Then PC boot normally. But with no settings saved. When I restarted PC (with BIOS entering) there was a message that BIOS had been reset.

Last thing I want to say is I have the last BIOS update (using the Gigabyte app centre)

Am I doing something wrong or its just a HW problem on my MB?

I have that board and it's been pretty solid but the memory has been a bit of an issue just like it has been for all of the boards on the Ryzen platform. If running the memory isn't working at 3200 them what you need to do is set the XMP profile to 3200 but then lower the speed for 2933. This is what i did and it works perfectly fine at that speed and the difference in performance isn't noticeable at all. We will need to wait for later bios updates to see if more memory becomes compatible but for the time being that's your only option. Also make sure you update to the latest bios revision once you get a chance as they are always improving things with each update. You could also try the beta bios's if you feel adventurous but I mainly stick to the official releases.

 

[neieus]

*Update* After reading the article on wwwcftech I was able to get my memory running at full speed and seems to be stable.

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-memory-support-to-be-expanded-with-upcoming-microcode-update/