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JeIIy

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I recently bought 16 GB of ddr4 ram @ 3200 MHz, I put it in the PC and noticed it was not running at 3200 MHz. I figured out I needed xmp and I needed to flash my MOBO. I flashed with f20 version gigabyte BIOS. It got in a loop of, "power cycle required for update to finish". It did this a couple times and every time it would clear the BIOS. I got impatient and went to BIOS instead. I then turned on XMP and rebooted. Now the PC won't even get to BIOS and continually reboots. HELP

My config
Motherboard: Gigabyte H110M-A
CPU: I7-6700K
GPU: MSI GTX 1060 3GB
Storage: Samsung 850 Evo 500gb, WD blue 1tb
PSU: Thermaltake bronze 650w
RAM: Corsair vengeance LPX DDR4 3200MHz 16gb
 
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It sounds like your BIOS didnt update correctly. Try clearing CMOS, but unless your board has a CPU free way of updating them it could be bricked unless you can re-do it.
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I can't find any evidence anywhere that your motherboard is compatible with 3200 RAM. The manual only specifies its compatibility with 2133 RAM. So, in likelihood, with XMP off, your motherboard clocks the RAM at 2133, and turning XMP on clocks it at a speed higher than the board is capable of running.
 
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Well officially your board only supports 2133MHz, and on the RAM QVL it lists a few 2400MHz but says they'll be downgraded to (DDR4 default) 2133MHz, so am surprised you even have an XMP option. There's nothing in the manual regarding XMP, only manual RAM adjustment. It is probably unstable.

How come you have a 6700k with a h110 motherboard anyway? Thees not much point getting a K chip with a non-z170 board.
 
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JeIIy

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Being a teenager with money, I decided to get one of the more expensive ones, I have no plan on overclocking my cpu, so the motherboard didn't matter as much. And as far as incompatibility, I'm super disappointed
 
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