Overclock or Change Voltage will reset Bios

[kenyang0713]

Hello,

My Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3 motherboard will reset itself if I try to change the voltage or clockspeed on either CPU or RAM and then complete power it off (by this, I mean to unplug the cable form the outlet or turn). My bios version is F8. I have already replaced CMOS battery and it did not help. Anyone has any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks in advance.

 

[vapour]

Your setting is not stable enough for MB to boot, so they reset in order to be able to boot is my guess. What CPU do you have and what is your clock speed and voltage setting? Leave RAM alone first. Do you see any XMP profile in bios?

 

[kenyang0713]

Your setting is not stable enough for MB to boot, so they reset in order to be able to boot is my guess. What CPU do you have and what is your clock speed and voltage setting? Leave RAM alone first. Do you see any XMP profile in bios?

I have Ryzen 1700. I currently set my voltage at default (1.2V) according to HWMonitor and clock speed at 3.65Ghz. But no matter what clockspeed I set at, as long as I change it, the bios will reset itself if I boot it after unplug the power. However, if I do not turn the ErP on and do not unplug the computer from the power supply, my computer will boot up without reset bios. Also, I have turned XMP off.

 

[vapour]

When you say you changed frequency, is it up? If up, your voltage may not be high enough to make it stable. Try to increase voltage slowly with your increase of clock speed. Better below 1.35v, but definitely less than 1.4v.

 

[kenyang0713]

When you say you changed frequency, is it up? If up, your voltage may not be high enough to make it stable. Try to increase voltage slowly with your increase of clock speed. Better below 1.35v, but definitely less than 1.4v.

I tried to increase the voltage, it did not work. I also tried to downclock the cpu too. BIOS reset after that as well, so it looks like I just can't change any setting regarding frequency and voltage in bios for some reason....

 

[vapour]

Call gigabyte right away to troubleshoot, or you RMA your MB

 

[Calvin7]

The motherboard lacks a manual CPU VCORE voltage setting, which means that you can only adjust the CPU voltage by the dynamic offset.

Example of successful OC:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GAAB350/comments/6a4n1f/ryzen_5_1600_gigabyte_ab350_gaming_3_overclocking/