Asrock BIOS and 3200 mhz! boot-time

x58haze wrote: Sorry for my English ^^, Finally I got this ASRock Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming K4 motherboard, but yeah the manual was kinda confusing, when comes to set properly the RAMS I ended up putting my viper kit dual channel 2x4 gb , into the socket A2, B2 I upgrade sucessfully my bios from 1.40 to latest 2.5. But I'm facing a problem, it seems that when I activate the Xmp 2.0 profile 1, it will slow down the boot time like crazy, and my cpu fan start to: turn on/off automatically ... So i was wondering what can i do? should i overlock manually? PCSPECS: GPU: EVGA GTX 580 NVIDIA 1.5 GB PSU: Thermaltake 775+bronce 80 CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 RAM: Patriot Viper 3200mhz 2x4 GB model PV48G320c6k CASE:Thermaltake v9 black edition PS: Also I don't want to sound disrespectful but I've notice a downgrade in sound performance, compared to my old intel H55m-e33, which I don't have a gaming headset. Anyway, hope someone can guidance me in order to fix or improve a little be the Ryzen experience among my old gtx 580 and new rams.. and also if someone can teach me to boost my SOUND, the creative 3 is not helping either seems like it doesn't do anything. :(

You are just getting started with a Ryzen PC, and you are learning that the biggest issue with Ryzen is memory compatibility. This is information about your Patriot Viper memory:

https://patriotmemory.com/product/viper-4-series-ddr4-8gb-2-x-4gb-3200mhz-kit/

Sorry for the English page, but it tells us that your memory was designed for Intel Skylake processors used with Intel's 100 series chipset boards. The XMP profile is designed to work with the Intel Skylake memory controller. The XMP profile is not compatible with the Ryzen processor's memory controller. We have learned about this since all the existing DDR4 memory was designed for Intel systems, the only ones that used DDR4 memory, until Ryzen was available. We see this issue all the time when we try to use the DDR4 memory XMP profiles with Ryzen.

The very slow "boot time" and the PC turning on and off over and over is really happening during POST. What is happening is a feature called AM4 Advanced Boot Training, which is an option in the UEFI/BIOS, is trying to get your memory to work at 3200. It is doing what is called memory training, the PC turning on and off is normal and is part of the memory training process. Does the PC start after it does the on and off cycle? Is the memory then running at 3200? Unfortunately, the memory training process fails for many models of DDR4 memory.

Only a few ASRock boards with certain models of memory that use Samsung B-die memory chips are able to work at either 2966 or 3200.

You must over clock your memory manually. Try setting the memory speed to 2666 or 2966 at most. Set the DRAM voltage to 1.35V. Set the timing for the memory either on Auto, or 16 16 16 36. I cannot say this will make your memory work at 2666 or higher, all you can do is try.

AMD is still providing Ryzen CPU microcode updates that are used in the UEFI/BIOS files to mother board manufactures to improve Ryzen memory compatibility. They are called AGESA updates, another one will be added soon to new Ryzen UEFI/BIOS relases, AGESA 1.0.0.6.

You did not tell us enough about your problems with the audio of your Ryzen board. Are you using headphones or speakers? A lot has changed with PC audio since your H55 board was new.