No I don't think I tuned the CPU. I noticed it's speed is set at 3700 though, so do I need to tune that down to 3600? I figured DOCP did all that.Some newbie driver wrote: ↑28 Mar 2021 13:35Remember too that the best performance of RAM timings on AMD platform is when you have a 1:1:1 ratio between the different clocks of the CPU, Infinity bus and RAM bus. So, it's not enough to activate the XMP profile, you have to tune also the CPU. if you have done it (I suppose so, due your explanations); you could still probably jump to around 40% on that scale.
And never mind that smell, that's just me cleaning out my pants. Just a bit ago I had the fear of god thrust into me xD. Oooooo boy, yeah just had my first major scare. Things have been running fine the past few days, so today I decided to plug in an old 1 TB HDD. Haven't used it in a couple years. It used to be my main boot/OS drive but a PC crash ruined the bootmgr. After setting up a new HDD on my old rig, I plugged the damaged drive in as a slave to salvage all my important data, and then it sat in a box until today.
So anyway, I plugged it into my new PC today, went into the BIOS to see if it was recognized, and it was, so I booted up, and it went through a very lengthy repair disk operation (7 hours) even though it's not the boot drive. That part seemed to go fine though, other than how long it took. After it finished, I didn't see the HDD listed under "My Computer" however. There was a drive letter for it, but no details, size, free space etc, so I clicked on it anyway. After a few minutes it shot some kind of I/O error at me. Figured I'd reboot the PC to see if that would help, but the PC wouldn't shutdown. I kept clicking shutdown, but it'd just sit there. Finally it went to the shutdown screen with the dotted circle thing, where it sat for a good 15-20 minutes. Which is where the worrying began lol. I didn't want to force a shutdown by hitting the power button, but I had no idea what was going on, or how long it would sit there.
I went to the other room to do some stuff on my old PC, and when I came back the new PC was just sitting on the MB screen, so panic attack #2 kicked in xD. I pressed F2 to enter the BIOS, but it took a little longer than it should to get there. Everything looked fine in the BIOS, old HDD still recognized, so I exited and let it reboot, but it hung on the MB screen again, but this time I couldn't enter the BIOS. I waited for a little while, but it just sat on the MB screen. The onboard error LED's indicated there was a boot issue, so I flipped the power button to turn the PC off. Then I removed the old HDD thinking that was causing all the problems.
This time when I turned the PC on, I got nothing lol. All the fans started up like normal, but there was no display. GPU fan was twirling too, so I assumed it was working. This time the LED's indicated a CPU issue, and I think that's the moment I might have died for 10-15 seconds. CPU light, no display? Fuck me, the BIOS rolled back didn't it? Can it even do that? I was going to have to slap the 3100 back in and do that painful step all over again, wasn't I? Lucky I hadn't returned it yet. Or worse, I fried the CPU somehow? But first, I hit the reset button a few times because it didn't seem to be do anything, and then FINALLY the LED's went through their normal cycle and I got back to the BIOS. Whewwww first time I was able to breathe in a few minutes. Everything still looked normal in the BIOS, it was still at the latest version and the 5600X was still there, but it rolled my RAM back to default speed even though DOCP was still active, so not sure what's wrong there, but that's the least of my worries atm. I exited out, and this time it went straight to windows without delay. Then I restarted the PC again real quick just to make sure everything was working normal, and whewwww everything seems to be back to normal. I gotta go set the RAM again though.
Do I need to keep the 3100 lol? I seriously don't know if a MB BIOS can rollback, and that would certainly screw me if it did. I'm also terrified to put another mechanical HDD back in, but my 500GB SSD is filling up fast. I did have my 2 newer HDD's in and working fine before this older HDD messed everything up, so maybe it's safe. I took those out when I slapped the old one in. But maybe I should just order a couple more SSD's and just not deal with the mechanical HDD's anymore?