I've been using an i5-12600K CPU with a B660M motherboard and had a single kit of 2x16GB DDR4 RAM running perfectly at 3600MHz with XMP enabled. Recently, I decided to add some extra RAM temporarily and after rebooting, I removed it, but now I'm facing issues. XMP fails to load, and I'm getting an 'overclock failed' message in the BIOS. Not only that, but even setting it to 3200MHz causes a reboot, while it works fine at 2400MHz. An orange DRAM LED has also appeared since this incident. I reset the BIOS settings (F6), and made sure the RAM is in slots A2/B2. Could I have corrupted the memory training? What can I do to retrain the RAM properly? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
4 Answers
First off, have you tried reseating the RAM? Sometimes just removing and reinserting it can help with issues like this.
Make sure all your RAM is from the same brand and fully compatible. If you changed brands and mixed them up, it could cause headaches with XMP.
A BIOS update could be beneficial. Sometimes new updates fix compatibility issues related to RAM.
It's tricky with RAM. When you mix kits, even if they look similar, there's no guarantee they'll run together at XMP settings. Sounds like you might have hit a rough spot trying to mix different sticks. The old setup might have spoiled the new combination.
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