Issues with brand new memory.

[Dreadbeard]

Hey all, been having a bit of a rough day with my new memory.
I bought some corsair vengeance 1600mhz. I installed it only to end up in a bsod. Which carried over through my old memory, I figured it maybe my so that caused it, so I did a reinstall which seems to have cleaned the issue.

My new issue is the ram is only running at 1333mhz, which it shouldn't be.
I also noticed my cpu running at 3.7 ghz, which is over the top.
My cpu only used to run at stock 3.5ghz.

I think it's got something to do with the Intel xmp or something which I turned on to try get my ram running at 1600mhz.

 

[Entomber]

does your board support DDR3-1600 RAM?

 

[Dreadbeard]

does your board support DDR3-1600 RAM?

Yep it can, I. Running a msi xa990 -gd55
Alongside an amd fx 8320 cpu.

 

[Entomber]

how many sticks of RAM do you have plugged in your motherboard?

Are you trying to add RAM to your system, while keeping the old RAM at the same time?

 

[Dreadbeard]

how many sticks of RAM do you have plugged in your motherboard?

Are you trying to add RAM to your system, while keeping the old RAM at the same time?

Only the two new sticks are in there. All other arma removed.

 

[Entomber]

have you tried using different slots for the RAM? usually motherboards have a recommended sequence to populate the RAM slots

 

[Dreadbeard]

have you tried using different slots for the RAM? usually motherboards have a recommended sequence to populate the RAM slots

I'm using the normal setup for my mobo ifi. Remember rightly, it's slot 1 and 3.

 

[Entomber]

Try resetting your BIOS to default settings first, then retry the XMP profile on your RAM.

 

[Dreadbeard]

Try resetting your BIOS to default settings first, then retry the XMP profile on your RAM.

I can't seem to find out where I do that honestly as I was looking for it earlier.
My processor also seems to have overclocked itself, it's running at 3.7ghz, when it's stock is supposed to be 3.5Ghz.

 

[Entomber]

any BIOS should have an option to reset to factory settings, usually in advanced options or something of the sort. Please look again.

 

[Dreadbeard]

any BIOS should have an option to reset to factory settings, usually in advanced options or something of the sort. Please look again.

Just going to look again.

 

[Dreadbeard]

any BIOS should have an option to reset to factory settings, usually in advanced options or something of the sort. Please look again.

We'll, I reset my bios now. And figured out why my bsod was happening.

 

[Entomber]

why was it happening?

 

[Dreadbeard]

why was it happening?

Either my ssd broke, or the ahci controller did, as ahci is causing the bsod, ide doesnt. But my memory stillw ont run at 1600mhz. Even after bios reset.

 

[Entomber]

If your Windows was installed in IDE mode then your BIOS has to be set to IDE or it will not work. If you want to get full functionality out of your SSD, you will have to set the SATA controller to AHCI mode, then install.

Try that first, then try changing your memory speed again.

 

[Dreadbeard]

If your Windows was installed in IDE mode then your BIOS has to be set to IDE or it will not work. If you want to get full functionality out of your SSD, you will have to set the SATA controller to AHCI mode, then install.

Try that first, then try changing your memory speed again.

Wow, i did what you said and changed to ahci via the regedit method. And it actually works again haha.
I have tried changing my ram to run at 1600mhz again, but no luck again

 

[Dreadbeard]

If your Windows was installed in IDE mode then your BIOS has to be set to IDE or it will not work. If you want to get full functionality out of your SSD, you will have to set the SATA controller to AHCI mode, then install.

Try that first, then try changing your memory speed again.

I beleive i may have been looking st the wrong thing all along.
I just changed it all to xmb and set the freq to 1600, and cpu-z says its running st 800 so thats fine.
My control centre still says its running st 1333 but i think that may e wrong.