Question Can't Use Kingston Fury Beast DDR4 RAM on XMP Profile 1 ?

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PC model: HP OMEN Desktop PC 30L GT13-0000i (236B1AV)
BIOS: AMI F.30 BIOS

Back when I had the F.20 BIOS, it worked just fine. The RAM could run at its native clock speed of 3200 MHz using XMP Profile 1. I foolishly upgraded to the F.30 BIOS, as I was having some crashes last month. Now, if I set the RAM to use XMP 1 in the UEFI and save it, the monitor goes black and the machine does three long beeps and two short ones, indicative of RAM troubles. Then, it powers off for a few moments, a fail safe kicks in, and it returns to the default profile, which throttles the RAM at 2400 MHz.

The RAM's specs are as follows:
Manufacturer: Kingston
Max Bandwidth: DDR4-2400 (1200 MHz)
Part Number: KF3200C16D4/16GX
Serial Number: 37F8E263
Week/year: 04 / 22
SPD Ext.: XMP

The default profile is:
  • DRAM Frequency: 2400,
  • CAS Latency: 17,
  • RAS to CAS Delay/Row Precharge Time: 17,
  • Row Active Time: 39,
  • Minimum CAS Write Latency Time: 16,
  • Four Active Window Delay: 26,
  • Average Periodic Refresh Interval: 9364,
  • Minimum Refresh Recovery Time: 420,
  • Row Active to Row Active Delay Short: 4,
  • Read to Precharge Delay: 9,
  • Write Recovery Time: 18,
  • Internal Write to Read Command Delay Short: 0,
  • NMode: 1,
  • Voltage 1.20 volts
The desired XMP 1 profile is:
  • 3200
  • 16
  • 18
  • 36
  • 20
  • 34
  • 12480
  • 560
  • 4
  • 12
  • 24
  • 0
  • 1
  • 1.35 volts
Is there any way to get this RAM to work at 3200 MHz like it used to? Can you recommend any individual settings I could input in a custom profile in the UEFI?

Thanks either way.
 
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I would try and clear the CMOS on the board and see if that helps your platform out. By my research I see that the chipset for your prebuilt's motherboard is a Z490 chipset;
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_4853616-4853784-16
so you should be able to comfortably do DDR4-3200MHz.

On a side note, have you tried swapping slots? If(going from left to right) you're on slots 1 and 3, then swap to slots 2 and 4.
 
I cleared the BIOS using the Win+V+Power method. I verified that it was clear by seeing that the time and date had been reset to defaults. I tried XMP again, still no joy. I reseated the RAM sticks in slots 2 and 4. When I went into the BIOS, it said it was using XMP 1. However, the clock speed is still 2400 instead of 3200.
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