BIOS Settings

[tp163012ab02ae]

I recently had PC repaired through company I bought it from. When they sent it back they fixed the main issue (faulty gpu) but also stated that my CPU was overheating due to aggressive BIOS default settings.

When they sent it back, they had changed bios settings, and (I think) had the RAM running at 3800 (not full capacity, but I am okay with this). Everything was working, but today I activated XMP and when I did I believe all of the other settings went to stock. Now the computer is crashing whenever I play games again.

This computer is driving me INSANE, if anyone would be able to help. Thanks in advance

My build:
MB: MSI Z590 Gaming Edge Wi-Fi
CPU: i9-11900k
GPU: EVGA GeForce 3090
Ram: TForce DDR4 4000
Power: NZXT 850w
Cooler: NZXT Kraken z63

 

[citay]

Yeah, as expected with those primary timings - tRCD and tRP are six (!) clock cycles higher than tCL, it's uses some type of Hynix ICs.
And i had already seen in your HWinfo64 screenshots that tRFC (Refresh Cycle Time) is ridiculously high.

So let's try the following: First go to 5) in my RAM thread again, download Memtest86 and prepare a bootable USB stick with that.

In the BIOS, set tCL 18, tRCD 22, tRP 22, tRAS 42, tRFC 512. If you have trouble passing memory training, change tRFC to 560. Then don't load Windows yet, instead press F11 to boot from the USB stick and let Memtest86 run (at least one full pass). If that's ok, boot to Windows and run TM5 again, as you saw it only takes 22 minutes.

 

[tp163012ab02ae]

Yeah, as expected with those primary timings - tRCD and tRP are six (!) clock cycles higher than tCL, it's uses some type of Hynix ICs.
And i had already seen in your HWinfo64 screenshots that tRFC (Refresh Cycle Time) is ridiculously high.

So let's try the following: First go to 5) in my RAM thread again, download Memtest86 and prepare a bootable USB stick with that.

In the BIOS, set tCL 18, tRCD 22, tRP 22, tRAS 42, tRFC 512. If you have trouble passing memory training, change tRFC to 560. Then don't load Windows yet, instead press F11 to boot from the USB stick and let Memtest86 run (at least one full pass). If that's ok, boot to Windows and run TM5 again, as you saw it only takes 22 minutes.

Hello,
So I changed the primary timings to tCL 18, tRCD 22, tRP 22, tRAS 42, tRFC 512. I did the Memtest 36 through 1 full pass, and TM5 again. Both passed with no errors detected. I have attached the images to them as well as the HWiNFO sensors.

 

[citay]

That's very good. For TM5, you are not using the 1usmus_v3 profile anymore? Double-check with that one. But looks to be stable. We can leave it at that.

 

[tp163012ab02ae]

I will look at TM5.
Again, can’t thank you enough. Been trying to find this help relentlessly.