Question RAM speed resets to default after every boot ( from 3200 mhz to 2133 mhz) ?

[albinalex]

Lately my pc has been booting up slowly. I noticed that it takes the 2 boots for my computer to boot up. It shows me the bios flash screen twice before coming to windows. So i completely reset my pc with fresh windows thinking it was some windows issue . The issue still persisted. Later i noticed in my task manager that my ram speed was decreasing from the normal XMP profile so after every boot I have to boot into bios first and set my ram speed to XMP . My pc works just fine and the performance is also good just that this is causing inconvenience to me with delayed boot up and changing the ram speed after every boot up.
My bios is up to date

My specs are:
Motherboard: Asrock B450 Steel Legend
Ryzen 5 3600
MSI Gaming X Trio Rtx 2070 Super
Gskill Neo 16gb 2x8 gb kit at 3200 mhz speed.
Windows is installed on 512GB M.2 SSD
Games installed on 1TB HDD

PC will be almost 3 years old in august
Any help would be appreciated thanks.

 

[Zerk2012]

Lately my pc has been booting up slowly. I noticed that it takes the 2 boots for my computer to boot up. It shows me the bios flash screen twice before coming to windows. So i completely reset my pc with fresh windows thinking it was some windows issue . The issue still persisted. Later i noticed in my task manager that my ram speed was decreasing from the normal XMP profile so after every boot I have to boot into bios first and set my ram speed to XMP . My pc works just fine and the performance is also good just that this is causing inconvenience to me with delayed boot up and changing the ram speed after every boot up.
My bios is up to date
My specs are
Ryzen 5 3600
Rtx 2070 Super
Ram 16gb 2x8 gb kit at 3200 mhz speed.
Windows is installed on my M.2 SSD 512 gb
and games on my Hard drive 1TB.

Any help would be appreciated thanks.

That means it's not stable @3200, set it again and manually set the speed to 3000 and see if it works.

 

[albinalex]

That means it's not stable @3200, set it again and manually set the speed to 3000 and see if it works.

That's very weird cause i have been using 3200 mhz speed since i had purchased this pc . Worked fine till now. Strange behaviour

 

[Misgar]

When a motherboard "forgets" its BIOS settings each time you shut down the computer, e.g. XMP configuration, drive boot order, time & date, this is often because the CR2032 RTC backup battery needs replacing.

If you have a digital multimeter, set it to the 20V DC range and check the voltage of the CR2032 battery in situ, positive lead to top of battery, negative lead to chassis. When the reading is 3.00V and above, that's fine. If the voltage is less than 2.50V, replace the battery.

Your computer might retain the XMP settings after changing the battery. BIOS batteries normally last 3 to 5 years before they need replacing.

Of course it could be something else entirely different.

 

[albinalex]

When a motherboard "forgets" its BIOS settings each time you shut down the computer, e.g. XMP configuration, drive boot order, time & date, this is often because the CR2032 RTC backup battery needs replacing.

If you have a digital multimeter, set it to the 20V DC range and check the voltage of the CR2032 battery in situ, positive lead to top of battery, negative lead to chassis. When the reading is 3.00V and above, that's fine. If the voltage is less than 2.50V, replace the battery.

Your computer might retain the XMP settings after changing the battery. BIOS batteries normally last 3 to 5 years before they need replacing.

Of course it could be something else entirely different.

Yes i have noticed my date and time in bios is always changed to 2017 weirdly 00:00 time which makes me believe the battery could be the issue. Do you think i should replace it?

 

[albinalex]

When a motherboard "forgets" its BIOS settings each time you shut down the computer, e.g. XMP configuration, drive boot order, time & date, this is often because the CR2032 RTC backup battery needs replacing.

If you have a digital multimeter, set it to the 20V DC range and check the voltage of the CR2032 battery in situ, positive lead to top of battery, negative lead to chassis. When the reading is 3.00V and above, that's fine. If the voltage is less than 2.50V, replace the battery.

Your computer might retain the XMP settings after changing the battery. BIOS batteries normally last 3 to 5 years before they need replacing.

Of course it could be something else entirely different.

Okay i replaced my CMOS battery and my PC boots just fine now. Thanks for the help!

 

[Misgar]

Most definitely. The battery backs up the Real Time Clock as well as the BIOS. When you fit a new battery, the BIOS will remember your XMP settings and the date.

00:00 on some specific day in 2017 is the fall back setting for your BIOS. The computer should obtain the correct time/date from the internet if you don't alter it yourself after fitting a new battery.

 

[Misgar]

Thanks for letting us know it's fixed the problem.

 

[albinalex]

Most definitely. The battery backs up the Real Time Clock as well as the BIOS. When you fit a new battery, the BIOS will remember your XMP settings and the date.

00:00 on some specific day in 2017 is the fall back setting for your BIOS. The computer should obtain the correct time/date from the internet if you don't alter it yourself after fitting a new battery.

Yes it is working perfectly now. Thanks for your help kind sir!