Over the years of overclocking memory with various motherboards and CPU's have had a couple play up when it gets colder. Fire up the PC when it has been sitting in a cold room for a while, and it won't post BIOS information nor boot, hard power off, and it will load default settings and go into BIOS. A quick save of the overclocked settings as nothing has changed, and the computer will post normally and continue booting into Windows without any issues. Memory and processor are fully stable at the overclocked settings and pass extended tests without errors, PSU is high quality and beefy enough for the components. Why does memory sometimes have cold boot issues, and is there a solution? Depending on how cold it gets, I may have to reduce my current memory speeds from 4000mHz to 3800mHz or even 3600mHz, something I prefer not to do. At the end of the day, it is an irritation rather than my world falling apart, and only takes a minute or two to go through the extra steps for full memory speed.
Why does memory get cranky during colder temperatures?
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You can certainly experience cold boot issues (as in, from a powered off state) with RAM due to inconsistent memory training, but I can't say I've ever experienced instability from simply cold temperatures.
ive had cold boot problems in the past but it had nothing to do with ram in my case. with a z77 board is was the nic lol when overclocking the CPU. i have to boot wait a few seconds then hit the reset button to get it booting
DDR4 standard IC operating temperature is 0c to +80c so unless the OP is running at sub ambient or booting outside at -3c in the morning there should be no problems
Only time I've had issues due to low temperatures was with some OCZ Blade ULV DDR2 but that stuff was running stupidly fast and then I clocked it even faster and probably had little stability margin, but it definitely didn't like first booting if the room was actually cold.
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As far as I know this may be caused by onboard capacitors. They change performance according to temperature and something is a little borderline then it may well be enough to tip the balance towards the entire circuit failing. It can also be a sign of failure. They only work when warmed up. A situation that normally degrades until the circuit stops working altogether.