New PSU/Mobo/CPU, Windows Fails to Boot, then PC shuts off

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Ok so last week my Corsair HX 1050 went out, and took my CPU and Mobo with it. I replaced all three of them, hooked everything up, booted and I get the "Windows couldn't boot, choose to start normally or to repair" screen. If I choose normal, it freezes, and about a minute later, shuts down. If I choose repair, it takes me to the repair window, says it couldn't fix it, suggests a restore, I click restore, and about 30 seconds into that, it shuts off. All of my case fans, and the fan for the liquid cooling radiator are running (The PSU fan is heat dependent so it spins up at the beginning, then shuts off, with the intent of starting back up if the PSU goes under load)

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Corsair HX 1050 PSU
Corsair H60 Liquid cooling
ASROCK 970 Extreme4 Mobo (EDIT, I wrote Asus for some reason. It's ASROCK)
AMD FX Black Edition 8-core 4.0ghz processor
Nvidia GTX 760 GPU
8GB Crucial Ballistix Elite 1866mhz 9-9-9-27 1.5V RAM
Don't remember the exact models, but 2x 1TB Seagate 7200RPM HDD
Windows 7 64bit
 
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New Mobo is the ASROCK 970 Extreme 4, old one was Extreme 3, closest I could get.

I just managed to get it to the desktop, but it shuts off after about a minute. Making me think it's an overheat issue maybe, but I don't get it. There is an appropriate amount of thermal paste, the fans are all spinning.

Is there a way to tell if the liquid cooling isn't working properly?
 
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If you can get into BIOS, watch the temp for awhile. If it climbs wildly, then you have something wrong.
Are you using the original installation of Win (7?) that you had with the Extreme 4? If so, I would think that would get you safely to the desktop. But you may still have to install the correct drivers for the Extreme 3. Normally, when you change MBs, you would have to re-install Win if they are quite different.

What happens if you boot to safe mode? Same thing?
 
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I did end up getting to desktop, but now it is shutting off after a very short time. It's screaming "OVERHEAT" to me at the point, but I can't figure out why suddenly it's overheating, unless my PSU going out took my liquid cooling with it. I cleaned the pump module with alcohol where it applies to the CPU, reapplied new thermal paste to the cpu and have the pump connected to the CPU fan pin, so it gets full power all the time, instead of the sys or chas fan connectors, which are affected by fan speed controls.

I had the original 7 install on my extreme 3, which is broken, I now have the extreme 4 installed, and it is "booting" OK now...I unplugged everything and plugged it all back in, and even though it was all fine before, it works now. The HDDs are old so I suspect they're next.

Anyway, seems the issue is overheating now...only thing I can think of that would make it randomly shut down with no error notices or anything.

I will try to get into the BIOS and see if it will stay up long enough for me to check the temps in the UEFI system. Will report back in about 15 minutes.

Thanks for the suggestions, btw.

Is there a way to troubleshoot the Corsair H60 pump? I never noticed a sound before so I'm not sure if there is a noise it makes when it's working correctly.
 
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Tried to load into the BIOS, got "A disk read error has occurred, press ctrl+alt+del to restart". I tried doing that, but noticed that between hitting F2 to get to the BIOS, and reading the error screen, my keyboard was no longer getting power. Rebooted, keyboard stayed powered but got the same error, and wouldn't let me reboot with keyboard. Only lasted about 30 seconds before shutting down anyway. Overheating seems to be the main culprit, but that wouldn't cause a disk read error I don't believe...and not sure how I got a disk read error while attempting to get into my BIOS, but...that's how my luck works. One thing breaks, then another, then another, then another, and 10 grand later (Not just my computer, my car, my house, etc) it's fixed for another month. Then repeat.

I must have been a huge douchebag in a former life to get the kind of karma that I do.
 
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New problem: The keyboard stays on long enough to arrow up or down to select "Boot windows normally" but then powers off right after. Works on other PCs in the house as normal, and my mouse works like normal.

Still overheating (I think) and shutting down after around 2 minutes of being turned on though
 
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Lol... I guess that's one way for a person to look at it. Problems never seem to spread out over time. They seem to come is bunches sometimes. Hang in there. You may have tallied up your allotment of problems for a long time into the future.

I always connect my pump to a sys fan or cha fan header that can't be speed controlled. The cpu fan header is usually PWM controlled when it sees a 4 wire fan connected. But it may be seeing the 3 wire pump as a 3 wire fan and try to regulate. Or possibly the DC pulses that normally control a PWM fan are keeping the pump from running at full RPM. That will DEFINITELY heat up the CPU.

Move your radiator fan to the cpu fan header and plug the pump into a non-controlled or always-at-100% sys fan header. It needs to see a steady +12v DC to run properly.

The above is how I have my H60 connected.
 
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Looks like the power supply took out my Motherboard, CPU, AND my H60 Liquid Cooler. Finally got into the BIOS and the cooler was only registering at 750 RPM "Fan Speed"

Purchased a new one and it works fine, and apparently works even better than my old H60 (Idle temp was around 18C...which is super low, so not sure I really believe it, even under load it only went to 28C) Going to RMA the broken one, then return the new one I receive to the store I bought it from. I just didn't want to wait for the RMA replacement to show up, because I'm impatient. But I'm also broke, so I need the money back lol.

Thanks for the help clutch, was all pretty simple when it came down to it, but just getting ideas and a person to bounce words off of is helpful.
 
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