Slow startup following overclocking effort
Slow startup following overclocking effort
Hi, I attempted to increase the clock speed of my Ryzen 5 1500X to 3.8GHz using Ryzen Master. After applying the settings and restarting the system, I observed a much longer boot time than usual—far exceeding the expected under a minute. The screen remained blank, while the keyboard lights appeared but the mouse did not respond. When I forced a shutdown and restarted, it still took over five minutes to show up in the BIOS menu. In BIOS, I disabled the game boost option and reset everything back to default settings. Prior to this, the system was running at 3.7GHz on default speeds, but now it’s set to 3.6GHz. After another restart, the same delay occurred, with more than five minutes passing before the BIOS splash screen appeared.
I also tried clearing the CMOS by removing the coin cell battery, but the BIOS didn’t reset as expected. Before this incident, I had previously overclocked twice without encountering similar issues. My system specifications are as follows:
Ryzen 5 1500X with stock cooler
MSI B350 Tomahawk Arctic
Crucial 8GB 2400MHz DDR4 x2
Zotac GTX 1070 Ti Mini
Samsung 500GB 850EVO (boot and drive)
WD Blue 500GB (media storage)
WD Green 3TB (media storage)
FSP Hyper K 600W
Doesn't "Game Boost" just turn off half your CPU cores? Basically, I’m only considering updating the BIOS if there’s an opportunity. I think the most recent one was about a month ago and it’s version 7A34vHF. Probably won’t make much difference, but you should disconnect your storage drives until you achieve a quick boot to BIOS. If you manage it, running a full MEMTEST86 check (and after any DDR4 or CPU changes) is recommended. www.memtest86.com
Doesn't "Game Boost" just turn off half your CPU cores? Basically, I’m only considering updating the BIOS if there’s an opportunity. I think the most recent one was about a month ago and it’s version 7A34vHF. Probably won’t make much difference, but you should disconnect your storage drives until you achieve a quick boot to BIOS. If you manage it, running a full MEMTEST86 check (and after any DDR4 or CPU changes) is recommended. www.memtest86.com
Photonboy:
Doesn't "Game Boost" just turn off half your CPU cores?
Anyway, I can only think about updating the BIOS if possible. I think the last one was a month ago and this version is 7A34vHF.
I'm not sure it will help, but disconnect your storage drives until you get a quick boot to BIOS.
If you manage it, you should also run a full MEMTEST86 check (and after any DDR4 or CPU changes). www.memtest86.com
Thanks for the reply, it turns out resetting the BIOS was the solution. I had to reset everything back to default in BIOS.
As for the game boost part, I'm not entirely sure what it does other than increasing the clock speed by about 100mhz or something like that. Thanks again for taking your time.