There's a Gigabyte station that alerts me to when drivers for the bios, audio, and other MB functions are ready. Worth keeping?
"Gigabyte App Center", right? It can be convenient. I kept it. I just disabled it from automatically starting up in the Task Manager.
Not to doubt you but can you explain why? I was experiencing the issue with HWiNFO before I activated XMP. What i mean is, what precisely is happening on post? Is it too many things trying to utilize memory on startup?
But what about Microsoft COPILOT? Don't you want five fucking AI's chiming in every thirty seconds?? Hahahahaha
If you were experiencing the issue before activating XMP, then obviously XMP isn't the issue. You've controlled for that. That doesn't mean the RAM sticks themselves might not be the issue, but probably not them, either, if the issue only began with HWInfo. If it goes away when you don't run HWInfo, then I would just elect to use different monitoring hardware. You can try HWInfo again when it is updated, or report the issue and provide dump files to them if you want to be a good Samaritan.
We will find out pretty soon i imagine. Would you say worst case scenario it's the RAM and not the MoBo? I don't mind waiting for new sticks if thats the case but I would not relish the notion of putting a new motherboard in
Well, no, it could also be the motherboard, in theory, and I would consider that a worse case, since a new motherboard would involve the hassle of effectively re-assembling nearly the entire PC, but since the motherboard is indicating the RAM, I assume it's a RAM issue.
Did you happen to take note of the difference in framerate on Alien Isolation between the RAM at its native 4800 MHz vs. 6400 MHz?
I would recommend enabling AMP immediately. The only reason I recommended disabling it was (1) for safety in case you were going to update your BIOS, and (2) to determine whether or not it was responsible for causing the stability issue with the failed POSTs.
