I cant overclock my ryzen 1700

[in7ac8]

I was able to overclock my ryzen 1700 to 3.7 even 3.9 on air less than week ago now I can't even go past 3.1. The Pc doesn't crash I guess, after 2-3 mins in windows the monitor black screens and I have to restart.

This all started less than 2 hours ago. I was trying to copy a os on one drive on a different pc but the bios wouldn't let me boot from a usb. So I brought the drives over to my main pc. I was using this guide to do so (http://www.techradar.com/how-to/computing-components/storage/how-to-move-your-operating-system-to-another-hard-drive-1296831) it wouldn't let me boot into clonezilla on the usb so I gave up. I plugged in my drives and tried to boot and It would not. After clearing the CMOS it let me boot to the bios. All seemed fine until I tried to overclock. It lets me set my settings all to what they need to be to get a healthy 3.7 Oc, puts me into windows and then after 2-3 mins the screen heads to black. I have to then restart my pc. Sometimes it won't even load to bios and I have to reset my cmos again. I've flashed the latest bios too. Also restarting from my bios takes forever and sometimes wont even work. Is my motherboard fucked?

Tldr: tried to boot from a usb, fucked my bois. Have to reset it constantly. Can't overclock or my screen goes black but my pc stays on.




Specs
1700 + Stock cooler
MSI B350 PC MATE
R9 390
EVGA Supernova 750w (bronze)
1TB WD Blue
240 GB samsung ssd

 

[LowlySkeleton]

I wouldn't advise trying to "copy" an OS over to another drive or even using a third party to try to clone it over. Just go with a clean install for best success and less hassle with complications.

Overclocking also comes a lot of work and effect to test if you have the correct settings. If you don't, you system will be unstable (which appears to be what is happening in your case).

Here is a video that might help with some basics in overclocking Ryzen 7 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFXetkP22lE

 

[in7ac8]

I wouldn't advise trying to "copy" an OS over to another drive or even using a third party to try to clone it over. Just go with a clean install for best success and less hassle with complications.

Overclocking also comes a lot of work and effect to test if you have the correct settings. If you don't, you system will be unstable (which appears to be what is happening in your case).

Here is a video that might help with some basics in overclocking Ryzen 7 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFXetkP22lE

That's what I ended up doing for the OS on the other pc. As for overclocking the ryzen 7 Turbos to 3.7 out of the box, meaning it should be no issue at all to have a stable overclock running at that frequency, but in my case I can't even get 3.5 to be stable when I easily had it running at 3.8-3.9 less than a week ago.

 

[LowlySkeleton]

Test for stablity. Run prime95 in smallFFTs for at least 30mins to test to see if your cpu is getting enough voltage. Run memtest for a few passes to test for any issues with the ram or memory controller. If you don't get any errors with either, you can try to ramp up your overclock a little bit and retest, or run prime95 for another 12hours to ensure that it is actually stable.

Also make to manually adjust the frequency of your ram. You might also have to enable the AMD version of XMP.

Make sure your cpu voltage is also under 1.425V, as this is the maximum safe voltage provided by AMD. Though, it is best to try to stay at around 1.375V, as most are having stability issues past this point.

It should also be noted that the X variety of the Ryzen chips overclock better than the non-X versions.