BSOD occurred following the activation of XMP.
BSOD occurred following the activation of XMP.
About two years ago I assembled my PC. It seems I overclocked it, as the CPU base clock is 3700MHz and it has been running smoothly at 4122MHz so far. Today I performed a benchmark to check its performance (since I’m considering upgrading the GPU and RAM) and observed that the RAM was operating at 2133MHz. I accessed the BIOS and turned on XMP (DOCP in this instance). This adjustment raised the RAM speed to 3200MHz as expected, but it lowered the CPU back to its base 3700MHz. I then manually increased the CPU clock to 4100MHz, which caused a blue screen of death. After that, I lowered it back to 4000MHz and again experienced a BSOD. It eventually returned to base 3700MHz when XMP was disabled (RAM back to 2133MHz) and the CPU clock was raised to 4100MHz manually... and so on. The pattern continues at higher speeds—up to 4000MHz and beyond, it keeps blue-screening. It appears I can’t push the system beyond its base clock limits without encountering crashes. Any suggestions or useful information would be appreciated.
DCP shouldn't adjust CPU clocks by default or on auto-boost. Have you turned on PBO? That should handle the CPU boost requirement.