MB Faulty? Can't boot normally into windows, but only safe mode. Updating drivers / Reinstalling windows doens't work.

emilj

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Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 1700x
MB: 370x MSI XPower Gaming Titatium
GPU: MSI GTX 980ti 6gb.
RAM: Corsair Dominator 2x 8gb 3000mhz
Hi!
Alright about 2 months ago I bought a new Motherboard, CPU, Cooler and RAM, and I've had tons of issues.
Starting out the CPU Cooler didn't fit, even though it was AM4 compatible out of the box.
I had it returned and got a noctua one which fit.
After a couple of days my old PSU fried. Had been working just fine on my older rig, never had an issue with it.
Anyway, I then bought a new PSU which I got in the mail a couple of days later. For two or three days the system was working as it should, but then I decided to overclock my RAM to the advertised speeds. I started getting some blue screens and after a while I went from bluescreen to bluescreen, until my system wouldn't post.
Shitballs.
I tried everything, and gave up and went to my local professionals. They told me that the motherboard was the one at fault and that they had never seen a motherboard this high-end brick like that and that I should return it to whereever I had bought it as I still have warrenty.
So I do. I return it, and they send it back to MSI.
A month passes and finally I get my motherboard back. I don't think I had a replacement, but they just unbricked it.
After installing all of the components, I install windows 10 from an USB stick. Everything works so far.
The first thing I do is go to windows update and download everything. I then reboot.
I get into windows and then when I go installing more drivers this happens.
I get stuck on the blue windows 10 logo.
After researching a ton and figuring out a lot of other people have the same problem, I try the fix's, but with no success.
I've tried updating the drivers and reinstalling windows, but the same happens.
Hopefully somebody here can help me out, so I won't have to go through the same process again.
Thank you for reading,
Emil J

 
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I have MSI B350, can't run my 3Ghz RAM higher than 2666 or it gets unstable. I run them at 1.35 volts. I've tried the other voltage things you can do to make RAM more stable but that doesn't work either. Can't remember what it was called but it's supposed to run at half voltage compared to RAM volt. So 0.65-0.7 in my case.

Advertised RAM speeds are for Intel platforms. So far, only the Samsung B-dies actually run at advertised speeds on Ryzen, mainly Gskill uses that. But those are almost twice the price.

Next AGESA update, 1007, AMD seems to rework the code completely, who knows if that actually solves the RAM problems, one can hope.
Unstable is unstable. The only 3000MHz Corsair on that motherboard's QVL are the 4GB Cas15 sticks.

Considering how non-mature that platform is and how every single BIOS update for that board so far was for memory compatibility issues, it would've been better for sure to get something certified to work.

The RAM may still work just fine at much higher than the advertised voltage, or at that voltage but lower than advertised speeds, so try that. Do not continue to run unstable or things can get corrupted, even the BIOS.
 

emilj

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It was unstable with 3000 for sure, that was what led to bluescreens. I have the ram running on stock MHz. The guys I went to for help tested the RAM and told me they were fine.
 

mamasan2000

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I have MSI B350, can't run my 3Ghz RAM higher than 2666 or it gets unstable. I run them at 1.35 volts. I've tried the other voltage things you can do to make RAM more stable but that doesn't work either. Can't remember what it was called but it's supposed to run at half voltage compared to RAM volt. So 0.65-0.7 in my case.

Advertised RAM speeds are for Intel platforms. So far, only the Samsung B-dies actually run at advertised speeds on Ryzen, mainly Gskill uses that. But those are almost twice the price.

Next AGESA update, 1007, AMD seems to rework the code completely, who knows if that actually solves the RAM problems, one can hope.
 
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