Enabling XMP crashes system.

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I have a INTEL CORE I7-14700K and my memory is shown below. Everything works fine until I enable xmp then all sorts of weirdness starts to happen such as not booting to windows, crashing, lock ups etc.
I have tested the CPU for degression and it past the test so no problem there. I was thinking I have picked the wrong type of memory. What do you think?

 
No I didn't change anything else apart from enabling the one click option for XMP in the bios. Whenever I have built a PC I have always enabled XMP because why not?
It's just that I don't know what is going on with this build and if it actually needs XMP.
I basically wanted to know if it's maybe a problem such as bad motherboard, wrong type of memory, or something related to 14th gen Intel CPU's.
 
In all the computers I have built I enable XMP and that's it job done, no problems. This is my first failure. I was wondering if it's because I went cheap with the memory buying CL32. Maybe I should have paid the extra and bought CL30 or lower.
 
How hot is your system running? Intel Firefox is reporting an increase in system crashes for people running 14th gen CPUs. See this news story.

Try update your BIOS if you haven't already and manually set your RAM voltage to just above the RAM voltage rating (try 1.40v then 1.42v, and so on until you get stable results)
Thanks I can try that out. My bios is up to date and I wouldn't say my system runs hot or to hot. Nothing more than usual. My AIO seems to do a good job and everything is stable until I turn on XMP.
 
Thank you.
I looked in my bios and everything has changed with the last update but the only memory voltage setting I could find were 3 settings with different voltages, VDD-AO -VDDQ-AO and VPP-AO. there was a drop down menu for XMP though with loads of settings all starting with 64 I think. But all of those settings have different voltages and there is one for 1.35. The default was much lower 1.2 as I remember. I will try changing that when I am not working on my computer.
 
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