My weekend build turned into a mini nightmare but I think I may know why and hopefully my story can help anyone else dealing with this.
So after the intial clean install everything works fine. I even did a bit of overclocking testing on a raw system. However as soon as I installed the included drivers (off Asus' website) things became very unstable. This was with my Asus X370 Pro board. I would get "irql_not_less_or_equal" BSOD and it would crash. Or I would also get "memory_management" messages also with a BSOD.
I tested the memory with memtest and it came up clean so I knew it wasnt that. Then led me to replace the mobo with my current one thinking the mobo was buggy and the same problem came up after I installed MSI's drivers (off the CD).
I finally have it stable but basically I did not install any drivers and let MS update it. So all drivers were updated via the MS service built into the Device Manager. Now the system seems content but just wanted to flag this issue for reference to anyone else experiencing weird errors coming off a fresh windows install for their Ryzen system.
I didnt have time to submit the crash dump which I want to do eventually to get to the bottom of this because the driver package included multiple things including the chipset, networking and audio. So could be any one of those. or none and Im completely off in my speculation. I could also be an isolated case because I am migrating my old hard drives but just wanted to throw this out there.
Now to make sure this is relevant to the forum. I did get a solid 3.9 Ghz (handbrake stable 2 hours) before backing off and calling it a night. Still cant get memory to run past the default 2133 setting but Im just happy to have a running system. Im using 3200 TridentZ 2x16 for reference.
So after the intial clean install everything works fine. I even did a bit of overclocking testing on a raw system. However as soon as I installed the included drivers (off Asus' website) things became very unstable. This was with my Asus X370 Pro board. I would get "irql_not_less_or_equal" BSOD and it would crash. Or I would also get "memory_management" messages also with a BSOD.
I tested the memory with memtest and it came up clean so I knew it wasnt that. Then led me to replace the mobo with my current one thinking the mobo was buggy and the same problem came up after I installed MSI's drivers (off the CD).
I finally have it stable but basically I did not install any drivers and let MS update it. So all drivers were updated via the MS service built into the Device Manager. Now the system seems content but just wanted to flag this issue for reference to anyone else experiencing weird errors coming off a fresh windows install for their Ryzen system.
I didnt have time to submit the crash dump which I want to do eventually to get to the bottom of this because the driver package included multiple things including the chipset, networking and audio. So could be any one of those. or none and Im completely off in my speculation. I could also be an isolated case because I am migrating my old hard drives but just wanted to throw this out there.
Now to make sure this is relevant to the forum. I did get a solid 3.9 Ghz (handbrake stable 2 hours) before backing off and calling it a night. Still cant get memory to run past the default 2133 setting but Im just happy to have a running system. Im using 3200 TridentZ 2x16 for reference.
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