Z790 Steel Legend XMP Problem
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Topic: Z790 Steel Legend XMP Problem
Posted By: OldHeartbreaker
Subject: Z790 Steel Legend XMP Problem
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2024 at 4:10am
I started playing Age of Wonders 4 which was crashing non stop. I was told that one solution was to turn off XMP in BIOS. In the OC Tweaking in BIOS, the XMP options are either "Auto" or the XMP 3.0 profile. There is no option to disable XMP. CPU-Z appears to show XMP 3.0 is active.
Intel Core i7 13700K
ASRock Z790 Steel Legend WiFi
-BIOS version 7.04 (2/16/2023)
2 x 32 GBytes G.Skill DDR5-6400 RAM
NVidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
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Posted By: Darkje
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2024 at 6:19am
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auto will load jedec standard for me, so that equals 'xmp off'.
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Posted By: OldHeartbreaker
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2024 at 6:47am
That's my hope but the memory monitor seems to suggest XMP 3.0 is active. I have a difficult time understanding the BIOS but it seems like "disabled" should have been an option.
Thanks for the help!
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Posted By: Darkje
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2024 at 7:00am
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have you also set dram frequency to auto in bios?
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Posted By: Darkje
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2024 at 7:03am
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btw. if you mean the memory monitor in bios, you got to save and exit first before the settings take effect, then re-enter bios to see the actual speed.
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Posted By: OldHeartbreaker
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2024 at 5:22pm
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Hi! I was referring (perhaps incorrectly) to a CPU-Z report which seems to say that XMP 3.0 is enabled. Any settings are out of the box - I haven't made any changes to BIOS.
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Posted By: Darkje
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2024 at 8:18pm
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can you post a screenshot of the cpu-z memory tab?
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Posted By: OldHeartbreaker
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2024 at 9:06pm
Giving it a try . . .
https://imgur.com/a/bNe1UBE" rel="nofollow - https://imgur.com/a/bNe1UBE
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Posted By: Darkje
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2024 at 2:34am
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The SPD-Tab is just showing the capabilities, not the current speed, that is shown on the memory tab. So it looks like the memory is running at about 2000 MHz, equaling ddr4000. If you where at XMP speed the memory tab would read about 3200 MHz.
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Posted By: Darkje
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2024 at 2:42am
here is an example of my rig with ddr5-5600 (2800Mhz) running at xmp speed:
https://imgur.com/a/pGkwdpi" rel="nofollow - https://imgur.com/a/pGkwdpi
using asrock's customized cpu-z
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Posted By: OldHeartbreaker
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2024 at 3:27am
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Thank you so much for the help. I was out of my depth and getting frustrated so it's really appreciated.
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Posted By: Darkje
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2024 at 7:34am
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Now this is clear let's try to get to the issue you have with the game! perhaps it will work better when you set XMP to 'on' and 'load all settings' in bios, this will mean the memory gets faster and some voltages are increased, so if it works it's usually the best option to just go by those settings.
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Posted By: Chillout
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2024 at 4:42am
You are running a very old version of the BIOS...
Its pretty likely that updating will have better compatibility with your memory.
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