Potential motherboard issue, Kernel Power 41

pastymuncher · 4 Jul 2023 at 19:38

Have you updated the motherboard bios to the latest version? Aside from the fact that the 5600 will need a newer bios version than the 3100 there are updates to the Agesa all of the time along with cpu performance improvements and compatibility fixes.

sehcure · 5 Jul 2023 at 08:12

jigger said:
Sounds like it’s the motherboard. Try with a minimal system config. 1 stick of RAM in the first slot, pull unneeded USB, networking etc.

Tetras said:
I have to agree with jigger at this point, you've tried:

- Turning most things off/on, XMP, C-States, PBO, etc
- Two different sets of memory
- Two different CPUs
- Two different PSUs
- fresh Windows install

I picked up a new B550 board, and so far it seems stable with the 5600. Haven't changed any default BIOS settings yet [XMP, PBO, etc] but it seems stable so far. Have installed chipset drivers, some windows updates [not all, on w10].

When I'm home later I'll turn on XMP, do the windows updates, but may stay on w10 for now. I'll let you guys know! Seems like it was a MB issue

sehcure · 5 Jul 2023 at 11:29

pastymuncher said:
Have you updated the motherboard bios to the latest version? Aside from the fact that the 5600 will need a newer bios version than the 3100 there are updates to the Agesa all of the time along with cpu performance improvements and compatibility fixes.

Yes, I did. Tried 3-4 different BIOS versions.

All were newer versions that support the 5000 series.

mickyflinn · 5 Jul 2023 at 12:33

sehcure said:
Yes, I did. Tried 3-4 different BIOS versions.

All were newer versions that support the 5000 series.

Don't do any further updates yet.

Turn on xmp for the memory and stick with that for 24 hours to make sure it stable then if you want enable pbo same again, then updates.

Quartz · 5 Jul 2023 at 12:35

sehcure said:
Yes, it is MSI Driver Utility. It automatically was installed, somehow, perhaps via windows update?

This may be set in the BIOS.

Mcnumpty2323 · 5 Jul 2023 at 12:39

I would do all the drivers and updates first
You need those regardless
PBO and XMP you want them
But don't need them
It should run with them enabled
But technically they're overclocking
So never 100% guaranteed to work