RAM overclocking causes blue screen

[snol200]

I have 2x4gb of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 ram and a Gigabyte Aorus GA-AX370-Gaming K5 motherboard.

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Memory/VENGEANCE%C2%AE-LPX-8GB-%282x4GB%29-DDR4-DRAM-3200MHz-C16-Memory-Kit---Red/p/CMK8GX4M2B3200C16R

https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/GA-AX370-Gaming-K5-rev-1x#kf

I have never checked my ram speed until recently when I noticed it was running at 2133mhz instead of the 3200mhz it's rated for. After looking up my motherboard specs I realized I would need to overclock it to get it to run at the correct speeds. However, loading the XMP causes windows to blue screen immediately when it loads. I am unable to figure out how to manually overclock my ram in the bios settings. Can anyone help?

 

[Dunlop0078]

Section 2-2 in your motherboard manual.

RAM frequency is under the MIT section in advanced memory settings. Enable XMP, then manually change memory speed from 3200mhz to 3000mhz and see if that will boot.

 

[snol200]

Still did not boot. Here's all the current settings

http://imgur.com/a/VLvNVpH

 

[Dunlop0078]

Still did not boot. Here's all the current settings

http://imgur.com/a/VLvNVpH

You might have to go down further, updating the BIOS might help.

That kit was not necessarily meant for Ryzen, if you go to tech specs on the link to your RAM kit it only lists intel as compatible. It's not on your mobo's compatibility list either. So you may have to mess around a bit to get it working at a decent speed. Try 29333mhz. If it still doesn't work try changing CAS latency to 18.

 

[snol200]

Still did not boot. Here's all the current settings

http://imgur.com/a/VLvNVpH

You might have to go down further, updating the BIOS might help.

That kit was not necessarily meant for Ryzen, if you go to tech specs on the link to your RAM kit it only lists intel as compatible. It's not on your mobo's compatibility list either. So you may have to mess around a bit to get it working at a decent speed. Try 29333mhz. If it still doesn't work try changing CAS latency to 18.

Just set it at 2933mhz and CAS latency to 18. Seems to be working now. Thanks for the help!

 

[snol200]

Well I spoke too soon. I tried running 3DMark and it immediately blue screened on launch.

 

[Dunlop0078]

Well timings tend to have less of an impact on gaming performance than speed, so I would try not to sacrifice anymore speed. You should be getting close to stability if it's booting now.

Try setting the 'standard timing control' timings in order top to bottom 18 20 20 20 38.

 

[snol200]

Just tried that. Windows loaded but blue screened after logon.