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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Xaltar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Apr 2026 at 4:26am
When it comes to troubleshooting, any component you can replace/rule out is always
a good call. If you have the same issues on a different board then the CPU or RAM
will likely be the culprit, if it all clears up then it was the motherboard or it's
BIOS.

Good luck and let me know how it goes
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Took the day to go properly over the situation.

Single dimm - 4d can occur (rarer then 2 slots)

GPU out - no change.

Took all nvme drives excpet windows system, same story.

Did alot and alot of manual running.

Patched 4.1 bios. Did alot ofanual adjustments to Processor droce strengths and impedances - and this greatly reduced 4d occurence.

By the end of the day, I spotted 4.2 update. Patched, so far tests go fine... We'll see, too early to tell.

What I can confidently say: error occurs only if memory training happened (code 15).

Will keep posted. For now slowly gathering info.
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Hopefully 4.20 gets you sorted, the fact that it has followed so soon after 4.10
means it is almost certainly a bug fix release, which is what we want in your case.
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BIOS v4.2 so far looks promising:

Did many restarts, restart from UEFI, online power cycle*, and couple offline power cycles**.

BIOS settings all bare-bone default, except: disabled Memory Context Restore and Fast Boot, so it is forced thru "memory training" (code 15).

So far so good, will keep you posted.

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* - "online power cycle" - shutdown PC, power back on.
** - "offline power cycle" - shutdown PC, flip switch on PSU to "0" (so no more even 5VSB to mainboard) - power back on, few times after short time, once after long overnight period.

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Below goes what and how i tested before with older BIOS verisiony, v3.5 and v4.1 which i patched back after figuring v3.5 is not gonna solve the problem.

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BIOS v3.5:

While it seeemed to make a difference, most certainly it wasn't de-facto solution as 4d still appearead.

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BIOS v4.1
For my case, it proved to be quite terrible - but with manual adjustments to ODT, DQ and CA Impedances / Drive strenghts - it was much more reliable.

With manual adjustments, it would fail mostly when memory training was triggered.

Adjustmens (in AMD Overclocking submenu and AMD CBS submenu, NOT in OC-Tweaker section):
- Processor CA Drive streingths: 30 ohm
- Processor ODT Impedance Pull Up P0...P3: 40 ohm
- Processor ODT Impedance Pull Down P0...P3: 40 ohm
- Processor DQ Drive streingths Pull Up P0...P3: 34.3 ohm
- Processor DQ Drive streingths Pull Up P0...P3: 34.3 ohm

- All other BIOS settings default - with those v4.1 would throw 4d ONLY when it would do "long code 15" (memory training) (and then it wouldn't throw it always).
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Will keep you posted.

One more note. Whenver system was up and running, i would do alot of stress testing.
One example:
y-cruncher, zen5 stress test - vt3. Memory occupied by test: >59GB (while using IGPU, of the availble 61.something GB) - it would run for hours..

I also did swap dimm-slots, used single dimm, interchanged dimms. Even with single dimm 4d would occur (v4.1 and v3.5) - but less often.

Main GPU is still out, only one NVME (system drive, in PCIE-5.0 M2 slot) had been left in.

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PS. why is there no "edit" button on forum, previous post by me is a total late-night-written-hafl-asleep mess :)

PS2. When i say "all settings default", it truly means theat, except W_PUMP_FAN and AIO_Fan set to "silent", memory is NOT using any XMP / EXPO, aka memory is @4800MHz.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Xaltar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 43 minutes ago at 7:01pm
That is great info, thanks for keeping me up to date.

The edit function was removed to combat spammers, like so many annoyances the spammers
were to blame. They kept making seemingly legit posts then using edit to change
what they posted to SPAM. It's the same reason we have new member threads instead
of just allowing users to make their own threads. 1000+ spam posts a day was
impossible to deal with. Now I can focus on the part I enjoy, actually trying
to help the community.
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