Hey guys,
Backstory is this I tried to build a gaming pc and was meet with partial success. After installing all my components I booted up and it ran great untill I pushed in a loose fan header. There was a tiny spark and everything went dead. I am assuming it was some type of electrostatic buildup. Nothing worked after that so I bought another mobo (msi z170a m5) which sort of solved my problem. The system started up everything seemed to work but I began running into all sort of Windows errors trying to install win10 (0xc0000034, 0xc000001, 0xc000021a). I am stuck in a bsod boot loop that I have been trying to fix for days with no success. At one point I was able to make it through the installation only after I restarted my computer I was stuck in the boot loop all over again.
Now my question is how do I determine what the problem is or the problem component is? Could this be a faulty mobo? Could this be my processor or bad ssd drives? How do I figure this out. Time is against me since I ordered all this online. The one thing im sure of is I spent a lot of money.
Could that electrostatic buildup have damaged the processor or the fact that I get the computer to start up and sort of work rule that out. What about the motherboard itself how much impact does it have in the running of the software. Or does this come down to Windows. I fully understand this all very speculative but I need to know what parts I should return to start over.
List of parts
Intel i7-6700k
Corsair ddr4 2400 8g
1st damaged mobo gigabyte z170x gaimg 5 returning
2nd current mobo msi z170a m5
Corsair h100i gtx water cooler
Seasonic 550 gold semi-modular psu
NZXT h440
Pny 240ssd
SanDisk 240ssd
Nivida gforce gtx 980 4g
Please any advice is extremely helpful I just want this to work. Wondering if I should have just bought a prebuilt.
Thanks
Backstory is this I tried to build a gaming pc and was meet with partial success. After installing all my components I booted up and it ran great untill I pushed in a loose fan header. There was a tiny spark and everything went dead. I am assuming it was some type of electrostatic buildup. Nothing worked after that so I bought another mobo (msi z170a m5) which sort of solved my problem. The system started up everything seemed to work but I began running into all sort of Windows errors trying to install win10 (0xc0000034, 0xc000001, 0xc000021a). I am stuck in a bsod boot loop that I have been trying to fix for days with no success. At one point I was able to make it through the installation only after I restarted my computer I was stuck in the boot loop all over again.
Now my question is how do I determine what the problem is or the problem component is? Could this be a faulty mobo? Could this be my processor or bad ssd drives? How do I figure this out. Time is against me since I ordered all this online. The one thing im sure of is I spent a lot of money.
Could that electrostatic buildup have damaged the processor or the fact that I get the computer to start up and sort of work rule that out. What about the motherboard itself how much impact does it have in the running of the software. Or does this come down to Windows. I fully understand this all very speculative but I need to know what parts I should return to start over.
List of parts
Intel i7-6700k
Corsair ddr4 2400 8g
1st damaged mobo gigabyte z170x gaimg 5 returning
2nd current mobo msi z170a m5
Corsair h100i gtx water cooler
Seasonic 550 gold semi-modular psu
NZXT h440
Pny 240ssd
SanDisk 240ssd
Nivida gforce gtx 980 4g
Please any advice is extremely helpful I just want this to work. Wondering if I should have just bought a prebuilt.
Thanks