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?

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How much of the quoted memory do you have? Is it just 2 sticks?

Have you tried lowering the frequency manually after enabling XMP?

I'm not sure what you'd normally expect a 14700K to hit. I believe 7200 is fairly likely with single rank sticks, but you have dual rank sticks there (hence 6600 could be too much).
 
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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.
 
Gigamite said:
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.
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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)
 
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JollyJamma said:
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)
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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.
 
Gigamite said:
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.
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Gigamite said:
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.
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I haven't spent much time around overclocking/memory-oriented forums so I don't know for certain, but I suspect you're likely to hit a CPU memory controller limit at those speeds with dual rank sticks.

If I'm right, there's nothing wrong with your CPU, it just can't handle the overclock.

In terms of: do you actually need XMP, it depends on the workload. For gaming, it isn't a huge deal, but as with productivity, it depends.
 
Make sure the correct voltage for the TAM is being applied. Not sure if still happening today, but few gens back (Intel 12700k), all the settings applied correctly when enabling XMP, but voltage was 1.2V I had to set manually to the 1.35v rated for that RAM.
Sometimes you may get away with lower voltage, but knowing my lucky, mine required 1.35v or won’t play ball.
 
Side quest:

If ram states 1.35v for XMP, and it shows 1.24-1.30V with XMP enabled, is that just the variable, or do you need to still step in manually and change it to 1.35v?
I worry that if i manually override it, it might be 1.35V with the XMP but with a variable that shows under, and if I specify 1.35V manually I might be actually going over that, voltage wise?
 
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You should set manually to 1.35. You may play around and set a little lower if you want to fine tune it, but I would suggest set to 1.35 and forget. Had issue in only few games when lowering voltage, rather than the 1.35 my Team Group was rated for. Even when moved to AM5, kept at 1.35, as BF5 would crash otherwise.
 
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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