New Build Issue. Please Help

Mclewis

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I recently built my first pc. On first boot, everything seemed to be working fine but then it froze after a few minutes of being in the BIOS, machine still on with fans and lights working but the screen and mouse are stuck. This is what it will consistently do after 1-5 minutes. If I begin to install windows it will start normally but a few minutes into the install the system will completely turn off.

These are my specs

Asrock 970 extreme 4 MOBO
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE CPU
HIS Radeon 7850 2GB GPU
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2*4) RAM
Corsair HX650 power supply

I have already tried several things to fix this such as taking the motherboard out of the case and using only a single stick of RAM while testing each slot. Also the cpu is not overheating, I don't think, it shows it going to a max of 36c in the bios. What could my problem be? Which component seems most likely be the faulty piece of hardware?
 

Greatatlantic

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I'm leaning towards Hard Drive failure.

You did check both sticks of RAM separately, right? If the problem is a RAM stick (which this does also sort of sound like), then using the bad RAM in a different slot will still screw up the system.

36 C should be fine for the CPU.

See if you can remove as many parts as possible (including HD and GPU) to see if the system still fails. If not, you can start adding parts again until the failure returns.

No the best advice I've ever given, but I hope you figure something out.
 

Mclewis

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Its not a hard drive failure because the system freezes in BIOS without having a hard drive installed. And yeah I did try each stick separate. I can't run memtest because the computer will only work for a few minutes and I believe memtest takes a very long time. I would try and swap in components that are confirmed working parts but sadly don't have access to any. I've been told that this could be a faulty mobo and was planning on doing an RMA and seeing if the replacement mobo would fix the problem. Does these seem like a good idea?