Need help with CMK16GX4M2B3200C16W timing... Confused by one thing!

ben62884

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Hi I am trying to set my timing manually on my CMK16GX4M2B3200C16W RAM.. I SEE EVERYONE SAYS TO SET IT TO 18-16-16-38... Currently I am using the xrp profile for the 2933mhz because I can't seem to get my PC to boot if I try the 3200 megahertz option. All stock settings on my new ryzen 5 1600 chip. But when I go to set the options manually for the timing, I have 5 entry points, so the 18-16-16-38 has me confused because that still leaves one entry point for me to fill in. My motherboard is a Asus Crosshair VI Hero running on the BIOS version it came with, 1201 x64. Could someone please help me with this problem I'm having in order to know what to put in the 5th entry? Options for timings are:
DRAM CAS# LATENCY
DRAM RAS# TO CAS# READ DELAY
DRAM RAS# TO CAS# WRITE DELAY
DRAM RAS# PRE TIME
DRAM RAS# ACT TIME

Thank you! Specs are as follows....

Ryzen 5 1600
Asus Crosshair VI Hero mobile
Corsair 16gb DDR4 CMK16GX4M2B3200C16W
250GB M.2 SSD for boot
Gigabyte GTX 1080 GPU
Rosewill 650 bronze PSU

UPDATE:. after I was thinking about messing with the timings, I ran one of the updates through the Asus software that came with my motherboard, and the PC froze while it was in the middle of updating, I had to reset the PC during the update, and now my computer won't start. The LED lights by the ram keep going from Orange, to Red, to White and then repeating itself, but sticking on red for the most part. It looks like it's stuck in a bootloop. I can't even get into the BIOS, there is no bios flash screen that is appearing on my monitor. I tried holding the clear CMOS button on the back of the motherboard for 5 seconds but that didn't seem to do anything. So now I'm locked out of my computer. It was up and running perfectly smooth before this update that it crashed during period if anyone has any suggestions on how I can remedy this situation I would really appreciate it. This is now way more important than Ram timings. Sings how I can't even get into the PC now. There is no postcode that the motherboard seems to be staying on either for me to know what's going on, it keeps scrolling through a bunch of different numbers really fast, too fast for me to be able to see what they are. I don't know what the heck is going on but I really hope this didn't just brick my motherboard
 
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I still would try to update to the latest bios since that might help with ram compatibility.

Also with Ryzen is getting 32000 mhz out of a that speed rated set of ram not always possible so if 2933mhz works be happy with it and hope that a newer bios will fix that.

My ram also isn't working at 3200mhz but 2933mhz,even after the latest bios update. Got a Ryzen 5 1600 pc as well here.

ben62884

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I'm sorry but I don't exactly understand what you mean by that, could you put it Moore in layman's terms for me?

And after I was thinking about messing with the timings, I ran one of the updates through the Asus software that came with my motherboard, and the PC froze while it was in the middle of updating, I had to reset the PC during the update, and now my computer won't start. The LED lights by the ram keep going from Orange, to Red, to White and then repeating itself, but sticking on red for the most part. It looks like it's stuck in a bootloop. I can't even get into the BIOS, there is no bios flash screen that is appearing on my monitor. I tried holding the clear CMOS button on the back of the motherboard for 5 seconds but that didn't seem to do anything. So now I'm locked out of my computer. It was up and running perfectly smooth before this update that it crashed during period if anyone has any suggestions on how I can remedy this situation I would really appreciate it. This is now way more important than Ram timings. Sings how I can't even get into the PC now. There is no postcode that the motherboard seems to be staying on either for me to know what's going on, it keeps scrolling through a bunch of different numbers really fast, too fast for me to be able to see what they are. I don't know what the heck is going on but I really hope this didn't just brick my motherboard
 

ben62884

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Yep I tried clearing the CMOS, that was my first thing I tried. Then I tried the BIOS flashback button on my motherboard and that didn't work. The crash happened in the midst of a bios update through some proprietary software from Asus. After a few hours of monkeying around I got it to work again. I had to copy the original bios file off of the CD-ROM that came with my motherboard, copy that to a USB drive and then run the BIOS flashback using the original bios that came with the motherboard. For some reason it wouldn't let me use a newer version or updated bios in order to get it working again, it just kept failing. But as soon as I ran the original bios file that came with the motherboard, which is highly outdated now, it was able to restore itself and I was able to boot up it and login. Since then I have restarted
 

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I still would try to update to the latest bios since that might help with ram compatibility.

Also with Ryzen is getting 32000 mhz out of a that speed rated set of ram not always possible so if 2933mhz works be happy with it and hope that a newer bios will fix that.

My ram also isn't working at 3200mhz but 2933mhz,even after the latest bios update. Got a Ryzen 5 1600 pc as well here.
 
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