Intermittent BIOS freezes

[LuckyOne]

I was seeing some system crashes, likely due to an insufficiently tested RAM OC. Wanted to reset to XMP and noticed BIOS was freezing every couple seconds, delaying all mouse and keyboard inputs and making it very sluggish to use. Rebooting without XMP did not solve the issue. Updated BIOS to most recent release and tried without XMP, no success either. System continues to run flawlessly. Any suggestions?

Mainboard is a MSI x370 Gaming Plus, CPU is a R7 2700x.

 

[qubit]

Do a BIOS reset using the jumper on the mobo and see how it is then. You want everything at stock when troubleshooting something like this.

Note that merely loading BIOS defaults is not the same as a hardware BIOS reset.

It could also be your RAM or a RAM slot on the mobo. Try booting with one stick and see how it goes. I had 4 sticks in my PC, which had started to become quite unstable. By process of elimination I found out that one stick had become faulty. Replaced it and now works fine. In fact, I think that stick may have been slightly faulty from new, but it was extremely intermittent then. Also, see how hot your RAM is running. It could be a real heat trap there causing them to be too hot to the touch and that's no good.

 

[LuckyOne]

Do a BIOS reset using the jumper on the mobo and see how it is then. You want everything at stock when troubleshooting something like this.

Note that merely loading BIOS defaults is not the same as a hardware BIOS reset.

It could also be your RAM or a RAM slot on the mobo. Try booting with one stick and see how it goes. I had 4 sticks in my PC, which had started to become quite unstable. By process of elimination I found out that one stick had become faulty. Replaced it and now works fine. In fact, I think that stick may have been slightly faulty from new, but it was extremely intermittent then. Also, see how hot your RAM is running. It could be a real heat trap there causing them to be too hot to the touch and that's no good.

Thank you for your answer. I feel silly now. I was under the impression that removing the battery from the mainboard equalled resetting the BIOS, or that an M-Flash would also result in a reset. I went through the manual of my mainboard again, set the according jumpers and my issue is resolved. Again, many thanks for your quick and helpful answer!

 

[qubit]

Wicked, glad to help.