Dropped PC, Now Getting "WHEA UNCORRECTABLE ERROR". Trying to Find the Culprit

jsnbtc

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Hey all. First post here. I searched all over the internet but could find nothing on my issue.

Parts List:
Corsair H100i
Intel 4790K
2 Samsung EVO SSD's
Seagate HDD
nVidia 780 Ti
AsRock Mini-ITX Z97 Motherboard
Corsair HX750

Long story short, my computer fell out of my car. Luckily, it's a Miata, and the computer was sitting on the passenger seat. It fell about 2".
My main OS is stored on my SSD. The HDD is mostly media.

-I plugged the computer it, and luckily it started right up. It was when I went to play a game that I ran into my problem. Under load, the computer will throw a "WHEA UNCORRECTABLE ERROR" BSOD at me. I have done the following to narrow down the suspects:

-Pulled the GPU and ran a game with just the integrated graphics. Error continues.

-Ran SFC /scannow. The program found corrupted files that could not be repaired.

-Used the disk checker (not through CMD, just through the GUI program) and it came back with no errors on the SSD's and HDD.

-Reseated CPU (checked for broken pins, none) and cooler.

-Reset CPU to stock speeds and stock BIOS settings. Continues to crash.

So. I'm wondering now what could be the issue. I wanted to consult this forum before trying a full wipe. I'm worried it may be related to voltage via damaged PSU or damaged motherboard?

I also have ubuntu installed, if anyone knows of a good stress tester I can use to test it from that side to rule out if it is isolated only to windows.

Thanks in advance. Please let me know if anyone needs more info, or needs an error dump.
 
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Broken pins would have been my first guess. But since that isn't the case that could be something different. Since it boots it's not a power supply problem. But if you're running games under full load it could potentially be a power supply problem. Something could have been damaged internally when you dropped the PC. Have you run MEMTEST or any RAM testers to see if you could have broken a memory module or one of the slots? That's just about the only thing I can think of. But if it boots then the memory slots should be working fine.

g-unit1111

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Broken pins would have been my first guess. But since that isn't the case that could be something different. Since it boots it's not a power supply problem. But if you're running games under full load it could potentially be a power supply problem. Something could have been damaged internally when you dropped the PC. Have you run MEMTEST or any RAM testers to see if you could have broken a memory module or one of the slots? That's just about the only thing I can think of. But if it boots then the memory slots should be working fine.
 
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