Okay, so after several years it was time to upgrade. I decided on staying with AMD system after reading good things about Ryzen. So I got that and one of the ASUS AMD boards, and some DDR4 memory. Here are the specific parts:
ASUS Prime X370-A Systemboard
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Corsair Vengeance DDR4 - 2666
I plugged all the new parts into the case, powered it up, and so far so good. The animated BIOS screen: cool. The RGB CPU fan and red lit board, even cooler. And from what little I've been able to experience in Windows, this system seems super fast. But I have an issue.
The first thing I noticed on that initial boot into BIOS, is that it is listing the memory's top speed as 2133. I switched over to the OC profile #1 and that changed it to 2666 and the correct timings. But when I saved settings and restarted, I got 3 beeps. Eventually booted back to BIOS in "safe mode" and suggested I check the settings. Long story short after much testing, I can successfully boot with any memory frequency 2400 and under. If that were the end of the story, I could settle for that and wouldn't bother thinking of a return or exchange.
However, after I installed Windows (having settled for 2400 speed), the system locked up. And it continues to lock up, some times as little as a minute but no more than 10 minutes after loading Windows. It locked up while trying to install a driver. It locked up while bookmarking a site. It locked up when I just moved the mouse. I left Windows running to go take care of something, and when I returned it was locked up.
Most times it just freezes, requiring a hard shut down. But a few times, Windows managed to bring up Windows 10 version of the BSOD giving error message "clock_watchdog_timeout". I searched that and found it commonly occurs with excessive overclocking. But I'm not overclocking, but in fact underclocking.
I'm really at a loss and just thought I'd see if I could get any answers here before I return the memory and try another one that's on the ASUS approved memory list (which I've never even worried about before).
I did have an idea today about the memory voltage maybe needing to be raised, but it is set for 1.2 just as the memory is designed for.
ASUS Prime X370-A Systemboard
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Corsair Vengeance DDR4 - 2666
I plugged all the new parts into the case, powered it up, and so far so good. The animated BIOS screen: cool. The RGB CPU fan and red lit board, even cooler. And from what little I've been able to experience in Windows, this system seems super fast. But I have an issue.
The first thing I noticed on that initial boot into BIOS, is that it is listing the memory's top speed as 2133. I switched over to the OC profile #1 and that changed it to 2666 and the correct timings. But when I saved settings and restarted, I got 3 beeps. Eventually booted back to BIOS in "safe mode" and suggested I check the settings. Long story short after much testing, I can successfully boot with any memory frequency 2400 and under. If that were the end of the story, I could settle for that and wouldn't bother thinking of a return or exchange.
However, after I installed Windows (having settled for 2400 speed), the system locked up. And it continues to lock up, some times as little as a minute but no more than 10 minutes after loading Windows. It locked up while trying to install a driver. It locked up while bookmarking a site. It locked up when I just moved the mouse. I left Windows running to go take care of something, and when I returned it was locked up.
Most times it just freezes, requiring a hard shut down. But a few times, Windows managed to bring up Windows 10 version of the BSOD giving error message "clock_watchdog_timeout". I searched that and found it commonly occurs with excessive overclocking. But I'm not overclocking, but in fact underclocking.
I'm really at a loss and just thought I'd see if I could get any answers here before I return the memory and try another one that's on the ASUS approved memory list (which I've never even worried about before).
I did have an idea today about the memory voltage maybe needing to be raised, but it is set for 1.2 just as the memory is designed for.