So I wanted to eek out a bit more performance on my Ryzen 2600X platform (Asrock B450M Pro4 motherboard). To be fair, I didn't use RAM off the QVL, but did check with the manufacturer first and they said it should be compatible. I installed 32GB of Patriot Viper 4 3200Mhz rated RAM (2x16 sticks). It wouldn't post beyond stock 2133Mhz even with XMP enabled and only running at 2400Mhz, etc.
Long story short, the BIOS was insanely out of date, so I updated it and most of the factory drivers. Problem solved-ish. I can't get it to 3200Mhz, but 2933Mhz seems just fine at XMP and I'll sit down and do some tweaking to see if I can push past that when I have time.
Now for the question, I got a lot of BSOD and crashes when I was initially troubleshooting and stress testing with high spec games. Since I've gotten it stable, I've had crashes in a number of programs that would have been running during the crashes and lost save files from a game or two that I was testing with.
Are there any tools to ID potentially corrupted files and fix them without having to complete uninstall/reinstall? Mostly because I don't know what all might have been screwed up and a complete clean install is not in my future anytime soon. If not, I'll wait for stuff to crash and reinstall piecemeal.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Long story short, the BIOS was insanely out of date, so I updated it and most of the factory drivers. Problem solved-ish. I can't get it to 3200Mhz, but 2933Mhz seems just fine at XMP and I'll sit down and do some tweaking to see if I can push past that when I have time.
Now for the question, I got a lot of BSOD and crashes when I was initially troubleshooting and stress testing with high spec games. Since I've gotten it stable, I've had crashes in a number of programs that would have been running during the crashes and lost save files from a game or two that I was testing with.
Are there any tools to ID potentially corrupted files and fix them without having to complete uninstall/reinstall? Mostly because I don't know what all might have been screwed up and a complete clean install is not in my future anytime soon. If not, I'll wait for stuff to crash and reinstall piecemeal.
Any suggestions are appreciated.