ROG STRIX Z690-A GAMING random BSOD with 1404 Bios

[Strakay]

Hello together,
I just updated the BIOS to the 1404 and then I got several problems, in Windows my PC was sometimes very slow and the mouse hangs, and it crashes with several random BSODs and its compleetely irrelevant if there is load on the cpu or not or sometimes I could play 1h or it crashes 30sek after the start. On the Bluescreen there was noted: SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION or several other different things ... IRQL...

I resettet the Bios and just tryed XMP1 or XMP2 with the same result. Updated all drivers out of this forum without a change. Then downgraded to 1304 and all issues were gone.

Sys:
Intel 12900k
4x G.SKILL Trident Z Neo 3600 CL16-16-16-36 (4x16 = 64GB)
ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-A D4
ASUS RTX 3090 TUF OC

[ahfoo]

Strakay wrote:
And what about my issue?

I suggest you revert back the bios version that work best for you. Sometimes bios updating quite a pain. One person meat, another person poison.

[bertsirkin]

ahfoo wrote:
I suggest you revert back the bios version that work best for you. Sometimes bios updating quite a pain. One person meat, another person poison.

I did that - I'm back to 1404 which WAS working fine. But, now, I can't use two of the memory slots anymore - slots A2 & B2 work fine, but whenever memory is put in slots A1 and B1, the memtest fails. I have 3 sets of memory, and all fail in A1 and B1.

bert

[ahfoo]

bertsirkin wrote:
I did that - I'm back to 1404 which WAS working fine. But, now, I can't use two of the memory slots anymore - slots A2 & B2 work fine, but whenever memory is put in slots A1 and B1, the memtest fails. I have 3 sets of memory, and all fail in A1 and B1.

bert

Hi mate, you were saying in the previous post quoting 4 X 16GB stick of 64 GB RAM. Did you using two different pair of ram or 4 stick of quad apir in a single package.

[bertsirkin]

ahfoo wrote:
Hi mate, you were saying in the previous post quoting 4 X 16GB stick of 64 GB RAM. Did you using two different pair of ram or 4 stick of quad apir in a single package.

2 sticks were purchased together and two sticks purchased a few months later. All 4 sticks were working fine for many months now until I installed v1504. Now, no matter which pair I use in slots A1 & B1, the memtest fails.

bert

[ahfoo]

bertsirkin wrote:
2 sticks were purchased together and two sticks purchased a few months later. All 4 sticks were working fine for many months now until I installed v1504. Now, no matter which pair I use in slots A1 & B1, the memtest fails.

bert

Try insert all 4 ram and set bios to default wihout any XMP profile to see it help.

[bertsirkin]

ahfoo wrote:
Try insert all 4 ram and set bios to default wihout any XMP profile to see it help.

What's an "XMP profile"? I'm not overclocking - the only changes I made to the BIOS from default are some settings to do with the fans, turning off "Armory Crate", disabling "ASUS Multicore Enhancement", disabling fast-boot and changing the "Secure boot - OS Type" to "Windows UEFI mode".

bert

[Strakay]

Fixed, at least for me with 1601 BIOS, THX!! It just took a half a year...

[ahfoo]

Maybe you read more about XMP or in another word all the while you are running default ram speed. To understand XMP. Please follow and search for how to in this fourm. Or may be from here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkR0y_uGQsk

[bertsirkin]

ahfoo wrote:
Maybe you read more about XMP or in another word all the while you are running default ram speed. To understand XMP. Please follow and search for how to in this fourm. Or may be from here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkR0y_uGQsk

Thanks for that link! I didn't know anything about XMP profiles. In any event, I'm not using an XMP profile, but, CPU-Z does show the full 1600mhz (half of 3200):



bert

[thehackedone]

Exact same issue here, 32 GB seems to work fine as soon as I put 64 in using all 4 slots I have horrible issues. I have tested with 2 different sets of RAM, its on the 1 and 3 slots its the 0 and 2 slots that seem to be an issue.