Problems after overclocking memory (Screen went black and yellow light appeared)

[Frinito]

Hi good helpers
We really have a problem with my son's gaming pc. He wanted to upgrade his PC when he thought there was too little space on the SSD disk and a little too little memory. He has an ASUS ROG STRIX B450 E Gaming Motherboard. He bought 2 Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO SL DDR4 3200Mh in one kit and a Kingston NV1 NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB. We took out the old one and installed the new one and started windows 10 installation. Everything went great, it started up in windos and looked great with 2 new RAM sticks and a new SSD 2TB. But then my son wanted to clock up the memory to 3200Mh, we went into the BIOS and found the setting and clocked it up to 3200Mh and started again. After that, the screen has been completely black. A Yellow light has also appeared next to the memory chips (To the left of socket A1). We have tried to remove the CMOS battery, reset CLRTC with jumper. take out memory sticks, insert one and place it in all four ports. None of what we have tried has changed anything. There are lights in memory chips and video cards when we start it, fans also start and everything except the yellow light and the black screens work just fine.

We took out the CMOS battery yesterday afternoon / evening (Norwegian time), then we put the jumper on the CLRTC pins and memory chip in slot A2 (Only one RAM and of the new one we bought). So we tried again right now (The day after). The PC has been on for a while now, but nothing happens to the screen it is still black. There are light shining on the memory chips and video card as if everything was fine, but still a yellow light to the left of the memory chip that I think indicates a fault in the RAM.

Spec:
Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX B450 E Gaming
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700 X MPK
RAM: Old Memory = Corsair vengeance rgb pro 2 x 8 GB 2666Mhz New memory = Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO SL DDR4 3200Mh
Video card: ASUS Geforce RTX 2070 DUAL evo
Power supply: Corsair VS650 PSU 650 W/std/w


I and not least my son really appreciate the help in this issue.

 

[Caring1]

Make sure the cable from the monitor is connected to the GPU not the Motherboard.

 

[Frinito]

The cable is connected to the GPU

 

[girdhan]

Yellow/Orange LED on Asus motherboard usually indicates RAM issues. Try switching slots - one RAM stick after another and see if the problem still occurs.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Yellow/Orange LED on Asus motherboard usually indicates RAM issues. Try switching slots - one RAM stick after another and see if the problem still occurs.

This , but you said it did work before, firstly reset CMOS , look through your manual and reset all the bios settings via a CMOS reset.
If it boots then it was the settings you configurred the memory too to get 3200Mh.

 

[girdhan]

Also I can't find your RAM kit in the supported memory module list here: https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/SocketAM4/ROG_STRIX_B450-E_GAMING/pinnacle.pdf
Assuming the SKU is CMH16GX4M2E3200C16.
You find the SKU on the sticks itself or you check the order details/product page.

 

[Frinito]

This , but you said it did work before, firstly reset CMOS , look through your manual and reset all the bios settings via a CMOS reset.
If it boots then it was the settings you configurred the memory too to get 3200Mh.

I tryed that, i tok the CMOS batery overnight, and set jumper to CLRTC but the screen are black

Also I can't find your RAM kit in the supported memory module list here: https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/SocketAM4/ROG_STRIX_B450-E_GAMING/pinnacle.pdf
Assuming the SKU is CMH16GX4M2E3200C16.
You find the SKU on the sticks itself or you check the order details/product page.

The new RAM sticks are CMH32GX4M2Z3200C16

 

[The King]

Have you tried using the old RAM sticks that were in before the upgrade?

The setting you used was enable XMP profile?

 

[Frinito]

Have you tried using the old RAM sticks that were in before the upgrade?

The setting you used was enable XMP profile?

Hi
Yes we tryed the old RAM sticks without result.
I dont know if it where XMP or DOCP. The configuration in BIOS was a dumb thing to do. I think we went to advanced settings /Memory Frequence and we set the value to 3200 Mhz

 

[The King]

Hi
Yes we tryed the old RAM sticks without result.
I dont know if it where XMP or DOCP. The configuration in BIOS was a dumb thing to do. I think we went to advanced settings /Memory Frequence and we set the value to 3200 Mhz

I'm checking to see if your board has a USB BIOS flash option without going into the BIOS. This option may get your system to boot again.

 

[Frinito]

I'm checking to see if your board has a USB BIOS flash option without going into the BIOS. This option may get your system to boot again.

That would be nice Can i do that witout a screen ?

 

[The King]

That would be nice Can i do that witout a screen ?

I looked at the manual, and it does not look like this option is available on your board. Please check your own manual to be sure.
The feature works like this but this is on the B450 F 2 board

 

[Shrek]

How easy is it to damage RAM through overclocking?

 

[outpt]

Shut system down remove cmos battery and put old memory back in and put cmos battery back in after a reasonable amount of time. This should clear out old settings and recognize the memory. I find it odd that resetting bios wouldn’t clear up your problems to begin with.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I tryed that, i tok the CMOS batery overnight, and set jumper to CLRTC but the screen are black


The new RAM sticks are CMH32GX4M2Z3200C16

Ok well tonight do the same remove the battery but also remove the 24pin ATX motherboard power connector and the 4/8 pin supplementary CPU power cable.

That should clear the CMOS and I have had this work 4 times when normal CMOS clear methods didn't work.

 

[Frinito]

Ok well tonight do the same remove the battery but also remove the 24pin ATX motherboard power connector and the 4/8 pin supplementary CPU power cable.

That should clear the CMOS and I have had this work 4 times when normal CMOS clear methods didn't work.

Are you talking aboute this connector ?

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Are you talking aboute this connector ?

Yes and there's a four or eight wire supply to the motherboard too.