[ASUS Z170 non-k unlock]

On 6/3/2020 at 12:58 AM, DarthFK said:

Then, if you have a fresh windows & drivers install and you are running from a dedicated GPU, the only reasonable explanation to a clock watchdog timeout is insufficient vcore, possibly other voltages. I would normally try both a slightly higher vcore & lower too! I know, it doesn't sound scientific, but shtuff happens even in computers. Sometimes the CPU is not of the best quality, sometimes the interaction between the cpu & the boards is not.

It happened on one of my BCLK overclocks that I had to do a standard oc voltage upping, like on a K sku, as well as power limits removal, llc, etc (the whole oc) if you can imagine that. It was a Gigabyte board. But ultimately it worked. I haven't had a board yet to fail the BCLK oc, but initially I did had BSODs on all of them, until I did more fine-tuning, just like on a K sku overclocking.

So try only lowering vcore, then only upping vcore, to say 1.36v, then try full voltage/power oc and perhaps try after stabilizing it to slightly raise the RAM speed & dram voltage, and VCCSA/VCCIO voltages.

ok thank you so much, now i know that its my own problem, gonna try everything soon!

[ASUS Z170 non-k unlock]

On 5/30/2020 at 11:23 PM, DarthFK said:

Yes, I did. In my case it was a too high memory speed. I also added some voltage to my memory. When I lowered it manually in BIOS, the BSODs went away.

My memory timings are 3600cl17 and it would refuse to start in XMP at that speed - I did not use the XMP for that reason, but had to manually select a memory speed close to 3000mhz. Der8auer in his old posts recommended lowering the memory speed to at least (as in no higher than) 2800mhz, if I remember correctly. You may want to try that.

well my memory speed was 2133mhz so i dont thnk its too high, i dont really know what to do, any ideas?

 

[ASUS Z170 non-k unlock]

Hello! I dloaded custom bios for my asus z170-a and it works completely fine, but there is an issue in windows, after about 15 minutes of using the computer with my overclocked i7 6700

(4.7 ghz 1.35v) the "clock watchdog timeout " blue screen appears, did anyone face this problem or can anyone give me some advive? After this i had to install the latests bios again and it works stable.