ROG STRIX Z690-A GAMING WIFI D4 crashes Windows 11 in XMP 1 or 2 mode

[emmarshall71]

Hello everyone,

I am running a Windows 11 Professional build with a 12700K CPU and 64 GB of GSKILL F4-3600C16Q-16GTZR memory on the STRIX Z690-A board. This memory ran fine on my Maximus Hero XII Z490 board on XMP settings. I am running the latest 0807 BIOS and have had the same issue on the prior two BIOS versions. If I try either XMP 1 or XMP 2 windows fails to boot and collects error messages to send to Microsoft. I have also tried this with the CPU Overclock jumper set to both on and off. Also I noticed that setting XMP II, but setting the DRAM to 3400 allows Windows to boot and run fine, but anything higher will crash windows.


Any help would be greatly appreciated. First time I am running into this issue after years of building on ASUS boards.

[phatmonkey]

emmarshall71 wrote:
Hello everyone,

I am running a Windows 11 Professional build with a 12700K CPU and 64 GB of GSKILL F4-3600C16Q-16GTZR memory on the STRIX Z690-A board. This memory ran fine on my Maximus Hero XII Z490 board on XMP settings. I am running the latest 0807 BIOS and have had the same issue on the prior two BIOS versions. If I try either XMP 1 or XMP 2 windows fails to boot and collects error messages to send to Microsoft. I have also tried this with the CPU Overclock jumper set to both on and off. Also I noticed that setting XMP II, but setting the DRAM to 3400 allows Windows to boot and run fine, but anything higher will crash windows.


Any help would be greatly appreciated. First time I am running into this issue after years of building on ASUS boards.

I am having the same problem Hero z690 with a 12900 on Windows 11 bios 803 with 64g DDR5 Corsair Vengeance 4800, XMP works fine until I play a game then 10 mins in the game crashes, under ram timings I also tried mode 1 and 2 as this has helped in the past on prior motherboards but not luck. XMP 2 does not work for me it blue screens. Everything is stable with XMP off, I noticed some Reddit posts are popping up with this issue on Asus boards also, something funky is going on.

UPDATE: XMP1 at 4266mhz is stable, best game to trigger errors quickly is Watch Dogs Legion.

[Peaches182]

Using an Asus Rog Strix D4 as well here. Tested with 2 different kits of BDIE which are good on z390.

4x16 GB 3200C14 and 4x8 Gb 4000C18.

I can push the 4x16 Gb to 3600C16 nothing more. In the end I stick to 3400C14 which is more perf. But eventho I am far from the bandwith a should have with this settings. Blocked @ 50000 Mg in read.



The second kits can't even stand his XMP profile, even with a little bump on the VCCSA and VDDQ.

I tested as well with two sticks only. No difference.

Now I ordered another kit of 4400C19 with different chips, the two other kits are b-die. If this one doesn't work, i'll return the kit and sell my mobo for a MSI which seems to rocks on DDR4.

Asus should really make an effort on their z690 DDR4 mainboards.

[FatalityZZ]

I have exactly same issues.
BIOS 0707 and BIOS 0807 have loads of instability issues, bsod and crashes.
Running i9-12900k @ stock, 4x 8GB GSkill Trident (Samsung) @ 3200MHz CL14 (XMP1), Rog Strix Z690-A Gaming Wifi D4

I have reverted back to 0605, which I found to be most stable bios (didn't have any crashes or bsods on it at all)
Not sure what is going on with newer bioses 😕

[Peaches182]

FatalityZZ wrote:
I have exactly same issues.
BIOS 0707 and BIOS 0807 have loads of instability issues, bsod and crashes.
Running i9-12900k @ stock, 4x 8GB GSkill Trident (Samsung) @ 3200MHz CL14 (XMP1), Rog Strix Z690-A Gaming Wifi D4

I have reverted back to 0605, which I found to be most stable bios (didn't have any crashes or bsods on it at all)
Not sure what is going on with newer bioses 😕

I tested all the bioses from 0807 to 0812. No improvement so far.

Latest version are available here : https://www.overclock.net/threads/official-asus-strix-maximus-z690-owners-thread.1794802/page-68

I was looking forward to post some nice bench results with this board on HWBot but so far the memory performances are so low that I will not even waste my time on bench.

[raven77uk]

0901 out today.

https://rog.asus.com/uk/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-z690-a-gaming-wifi-d4-model/helpdesk_bios

[phatmonkey]

I found this article after another forum poster stated the official speed is 4000 if all ram slots are populated https://www.anandtech.com/show/16959/intel-innovation-alder-lake-november-4th/4 <--- This makes sense, this is why XMP is not working for most of us

[vvoid]

phatmonkey wrote:
I found this article after another forum poster stated the official speed is 4000 if all ram slots are populated https://www.anandtech.com/show/16959/intel-innovation-alder-lake-november-4th/4 <--- This makes sense, this is why XMP is not working for most of us

As far as I skimmed through the article I don't think this applies. First, it's about DDR5, second it's just the official Intel max spec. XMP profiles have always been considered "overclocking" and not officially supported by Intel. Or am I missing something in the article?

[vvoid]

BIOS 0901 suddenly popped up on the official Asus page! Anyone got some info?

btw. I'm struggling with (non-QVL) 4x8GB 3200 CL14 b-die sticks. With 0812 it wouldn't post beyond DDR-2700, lol. 😞
This kit ran perfectly fine up to 4000 on the Strix Z390-F.

I just tried 0003, interesting. Was able to post and boot/benchmark at 3735. Sadly performance is quite bad, don't know what's going on, should be way higher.

[Peaches182]

I am currently testing the 0901. So far, bandwith is decreased by another 10% and latency is ****ing crazy.

3400C14 2T. BW 45k MB/s whereas I was able to reach 50k MB/s and latency 70ns vs 50 with the bios 0812.

Still investigating and reducing sec and tert timings.

It seems that they essientally loosen all the subtimings to increase the compatibility will all kits.

Performancewise it's a pitty. I'll see if by setting all the subtimings manualy I can address this.

[vvoid]

I've set all timings manually, so AUTO settings shouldn't bother me. Nevertheless, I don't understand why bandwidth _and_ latency is so bad. Just tried 0901, it's posting/booting, but memory performance is more or less the same as on (early, beta, testing) 0003...
I get your point - decreasing timings to improve compatibility - but it shouldn't concern my setup. And actually it doesn't. Performance was bad, and still is bad. So I don't know what's going on. Why isn't ADL/Z690 at least able to archive similar memory performance as CFL, at least in Gear 1 mode? I don't get it because timings are actually looking ok...
For me it's a ~20% decrease in bandwith and increase in latency, just to be clear. And I am on 1:1 divider ofc.