BSOD on every boot, can't get to Safe Mode. Windows 10.

jackperry

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Hi all, thanks for taking the time to help.

To start, here's my rig, except it's Windows 10 not 7: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/jckprry/saved/dV3kcf

I built this computer and it worked fine for about a week, but then a few weeks ago it randomly blue screened and shut down. Upon restart, another BSOD. And again. And again. I could no longer get any further than the Windows 10 login screen before it happened again.

I immediately started Googling, tried booting into safe mode, updating drivers, etc, but nothing worked. I can't even get to safe mode, and I can't even reinstall Windows because even trying to boot from my Windows 10 USB comes up with some weird errors. It's literally stuck.

I ran Memtest for fourteen hours to try and detect faulty RAM. No issues. I took all sticks out and tried them one by one in all four slots. Still happening.

I took the 980 Ti and put it in my old machine thinking maybe that was a lemon, nope, worked fine on my old rig. Used the power supply on the old rig too, no issues for weeks.

At this point I concluded its probably either the Mobo or CPU. I guessed mobo. I RMA'd the sucker and waited a few weeks and apparently all Asus did was flash the bios, something I had already done to no avail. I just got it back and tried again and lo and behold, BSOD. The errors change seemingly at random, but two I've noticed more frequently than others are "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and "Page fault in non paged area."

At this point I'm thinking it's got to be the CPU, right? Do I just RMA it, or does anyone have any other ideas?
 

jackperry

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I could try that, just didn't seem like the issue since I put my old rig into this case with the new PSU and that rig runs fine. Will report back.