Question XMP on Gigabyte UD Z690 DDR4 causes constant bluescreen when opening demanding software

[AlexanderDK]

It's with great grief that I have arrived at this point, a lot of trial and errors trying to figure out why my PC just kept bluescreening when I enabled XMP, but now even without XMP enabled I occasionally get the same BSOD "clock watchdog timeout".
It's pretty known already that the gigabyte z690's and a lot of others z690 boards are notorious for being unstable, so I was already pretty sure that it was my motherboard that is causing the issues.
This post sums up pretty much my issues: View: https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabyte/comments/sc1wzh/gskill_ddr4_ram_totally_unstable_with_gigabyte/


My current setup is a 12900K on the z690 Gigabyte Ultra Durable DDR4 MB, running G.SKill TridentZ 2x16gb CL16 which can run at 3600 on my old system fine but on my current I cannot run it at XMP so I am stuck at 2133.

The question is, should I try and spend money on the RAM kits that have been confirmed by gigabyte to work on the motherboard, or shell out for a 'better' motherboard that is more likely to run using my tridentZ's? I'm really hoping you can lead me in the right direction, because this is really affecting the already limited time I am on the PC.

The funny thing is that the reddit post mentions the F6 BIOS update, now we're on F22 and it really hasn't fixed my issue at all. I am also unable to get an RMA due to my location, and I'm sadly past the date to return it.

 

[kanewolf]

It's with great grief that I have arrived at this point, a lot of trial and errors trying to figure out why my PC just kept bluescreening when I enabled XMP, but now even without XMP enabled I occasionally get the same BSOD "clock watchdog timeout".
It's pretty known already that the gigabyte z690's and a lot of others z690 boards are notorious for being unstable, so I was already pretty sure that it was my motherboard that is causing the issues.
This post sums up pretty much my issues: View: https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabyte/comments/sc1wzh/gskill_ddr4_ram_totally_unstable_with_gigabyte/


My current setup is a 12900K on the z690 Gigabyte Ultra Durable DDR4 MB, running G.SKill TridentZ 2x16gb CL16 which can run at 3600 on my old system fine but on my current I cannot run it at XMP so I am stuck at 2133.

The question is, should I try and spend money on the RAM kits that have been confirmed by gigabyte to work on the motherboard, or shell out for a 'better' motherboard that is more likely to run using my tridentZ's? I'm really hoping you can lead me in the right direction, because this is really affecting the already limited time I am on the PC.

The funny thing is that the reddit post mentions the F6 BIOS update, now we're on F22 and it really hasn't fixed my issue at all. I am also unable to get an RMA due to my location, and I'm sadly past the date to return it.

Can you run MEMTEST for multiple hours at 2133 ?

 

[daABBA]

It's with great grief that I have arrived at this point, a lot of trial and errors trying to figure out why my PC just kept bluescreening when I enabled XMP, but now even without XMP enabled I occasionally get the same BSOD "clock watchdog timeout".
It's pretty known already that the gigabyte z690's and a lot of others z690 boards are notorious for being unstable, so I was already pretty sure that it was my motherboard that is causing the issues.
This post sums up pretty much my issues: View: https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabyte/comments/sc1wzh/gskill_ddr4_ram_totally_unstable_with_gigabyte/


My current setup is a 12900K on the z690 Gigabyte Ultra Durable DDR4 MB, running G.SKill TridentZ 2x16gb CL16 which can run at 3600 on my old system fine but on my current I cannot run it at XMP so I am stuck at 2133.

The question is, should I try and spend money on the RAM kits that have been confirmed by gigabyte to work on the motherboard, or shell out for a 'better' motherboard that is more likely to run using my tridentZ's? I'm really hoping you can lead me in the right direction, because this is really affecting the already limited time I am on the PC.

The funny thing is that the reddit post mentions the F6 BIOS update, now we're on F22 and it really hasn't fixed my issue at all. I am also unable to get an RMA due to my location, and I'm sadly past the date to return it.

When I was on F22 on gigabyte z690 ud ddr4 rev 1, I got bsod, "Clock_watchdog_timeout", every time I stressed the cpu (12600k) in multicore load. Either by cinebench or by other cpu intensive load. I could stress test in single core with no issue.

I have g.skill ripjaw 2x16 (F4-3600C16D-32GVKC)

I tested 'everything': Ram (ramtest86) , psu, gpu, etc. and ran extensive testing on each core, turning off and on individual p-cores. Results was inconclusive even if dmp-files reported cpu error on cpu number 6, it probably wasn't, based on my testing.

I could most of the time get it to complete stress test (no bsod) with one p core turned off, or running ram in single channel or non-xmp.

Since it seemed like it was not cpu's fault, but still cpu related, I tried one last ting before i went to bed 4 in the morning.. .. I though it might be some controller/instruction issue.. Idk..

I updated bios From F22 to F23. First test with Intel xtu (5 min test) with ram (non xmp) @ 2133mhz completed with no issue. Loaded xmp @3600mhz, set Intel xtu to stress test for 3 hours and went to bed.
Test passed and consecutive cinebench tests also passed. Seemed like it worked and I haven't had a bsod since.


TL /DR: Updating bios to f23 fixed it for me.