Coamex Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 Hello all, This is my first time building my own PC and everything worked perfect first try. Now I'm trying to get the RAM to run at its specified 1600MHz but I haven't been lucky. The first time I tried, I chose DDR3 1600MHz on the BIOS plus increased the V manually to 1.65 as required by the DIMMS. When I restarted I got the Overclock Failed! message and then something happened to my SSD drive: I got this message: Please select your booting device....." After trying to change the devices in the BIOS to the correct one, I was still not able to boot so I had to REINSTALL Windows again. I'm like afraid of trying to do something for the memory to run at 1600 MHz by my own again as I don't want to mess up Windows and reinstall again. Can someone please help me with running my RAM at the specified speed on the R3E and also with this issue of having my SSD drive fail if I do something on the BIOS? Any ideas? Thank you for your help! UPDATE: I just enabled the XMP feature and again: Overclock failed! Please help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avh48 Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I´m using the same mobo and this happened to me before... I was able to fix the problem. Let me check my bios configuration and I´ll post to u the solution that worked for me :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 your CPU is rated at 1066, dont you need a 1333 cpu to hope to OC to 1600? can you set the ram at 1333 and see what happens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 your CPU is rated at 1066, dont you need a 1333 cpu to hope to OC to 1600?Nope. Mine runs fine @ 1600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 The PC may or may not run stable with the memory overclocked. There are no guarantees when overclocking - as my signature states. The CPU/RAM/VID must all be willing and able to run the RAM overclocked and this is especially difficult with a high quantity of RAM such as 12 GB. You may have better luck setting the BIOS options manually instead of using the XMP profile? See the link below for help. The QPI will probably need to be raised. http://www.techreaction.net/2010/09/07/3-step-overclocking-guide-bloomfield-and-gulftown/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Nope. Mine runs fine @ 1600. thanks....wasn't sure. ;): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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