Hello everyone, my name is Robin. I study IT. I'm started a programming job in July. I have the slightest clue about hardware, and if not I know how to google stuff. Despite my background I have some really large issues with my newly upgraded pc.
It's been going on for 3 weeks now, and as you can imagine I've become very desperate.
I decided to spend my christmas money and anniversary money on upgrading my PC.
I sold my old motherboard, cpu, ram and gpu to replace them with new ones:
I7 6700K
Asus Maximus VIII Ranger
16gb Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4
Msi GTX 970
The hardware had arrived. I built everything in. Random BSODs popped up at random times. During windows 10 installation, during bootup, when installing drivers, when surfing the internet, ...
Most frequent BSODs were: Memory Management, Driver IRQL not less or equal, kmode exception, page fault in unpaged area, and some others.
I did a lot of testing. Litterally spent my entire weekend. Tested every single RAM module and every RAM slot on my motherboard. The memcheck gave an error when I had RAM in the second slot. Without thinking too much I sent my motherboard retour, they tested it, found it faulty and replaced it. Given my problem still isn't resolved today, I doubt how thorough they test retoured hardware.
New motherboard, built my pc again. Tested: STILL THE SAME ISSUE. I had now contacted the vendor asking to retour everything I had bought from them: the motherboard, the gpu, the cpu and the ram (all 16gb).
They tested it and found some RAM modules to be faulty. I had them replaced and they arrived today.
Built them in and guess what. Still the same issue. I have now even removed the 2 initial (tested, working) RAM modules so I'm running with 8 GB, down from 16GB (2 NEW RAM modules) and I still get bluescreens very frequently.
I managed to do some HDD tests today (my SSD is 100% fine and when testing my HDD I got a BSOD at 80%, but everything was fine up until then too and I really doubt my empty HDD caused the bluescreen), desperately.
I did an sfc /scannow, this said that I had corrupted files that couldn't be repaired. However it was a clean install (did that today) from a bootable USB.
I tried running from the bootable usb again to run Windows Repair. The setup failed to launch. It said some drivers couldn't be loaded and therefore the setup couldn't run. Very strange.
Now as desperate as I am, I'm wondering what your toughts are. Is this faulty hardware, or is it the software? I'm very convinced it's not the software, as I've done about 6 full reinstalls, each of them resulting in aproximately the same bluescreens.
I don't have any dumps of the bluescreens, however I can probably provide them tommorow (I'm not home right now). I do know that most (if not all) bluescreens were caused by "ntoskrnl.exe".
I'm really really sad, my exams are finished and I have a week off this week. I've been without a PC for 3 weeks now!
It's been going on for 3 weeks now, and as you can imagine I've become very desperate.
I decided to spend my christmas money and anniversary money on upgrading my PC.
I sold my old motherboard, cpu, ram and gpu to replace them with new ones:
I7 6700K
Asus Maximus VIII Ranger
16gb Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4
Msi GTX 970
The hardware had arrived. I built everything in. Random BSODs popped up at random times. During windows 10 installation, during bootup, when installing drivers, when surfing the internet, ...
Most frequent BSODs were: Memory Management, Driver IRQL not less or equal, kmode exception, page fault in unpaged area, and some others.
I did a lot of testing. Litterally spent my entire weekend. Tested every single RAM module and every RAM slot on my motherboard. The memcheck gave an error when I had RAM in the second slot. Without thinking too much I sent my motherboard retour, they tested it, found it faulty and replaced it. Given my problem still isn't resolved today, I doubt how thorough they test retoured hardware.
New motherboard, built my pc again. Tested: STILL THE SAME ISSUE. I had now contacted the vendor asking to retour everything I had bought from them: the motherboard, the gpu, the cpu and the ram (all 16gb).
They tested it and found some RAM modules to be faulty. I had them replaced and they arrived today.
Built them in and guess what. Still the same issue. I have now even removed the 2 initial (tested, working) RAM modules so I'm running with 8 GB, down from 16GB (2 NEW RAM modules) and I still get bluescreens very frequently.
I managed to do some HDD tests today (my SSD is 100% fine and when testing my HDD I got a BSOD at 80%, but everything was fine up until then too and I really doubt my empty HDD caused the bluescreen), desperately.
I did an sfc /scannow, this said that I had corrupted files that couldn't be repaired. However it was a clean install (did that today) from a bootable USB.
I tried running from the bootable usb again to run Windows Repair. The setup failed to launch. It said some drivers couldn't be loaded and therefore the setup couldn't run. Very strange.
Now as desperate as I am, I'm wondering what your toughts are. Is this faulty hardware, or is it the software? I'm very convinced it's not the software, as I've done about 6 full reinstalls, each of them resulting in aproximately the same bluescreens.
I don't have any dumps of the bluescreens, however I can probably provide them tommorow (I'm not home right now). I do know that most (if not all) bluescreens were caused by "ntoskrnl.exe".
I'm really really sad, my exams are finished and I have a week off this week. I've been without a PC for 3 weeks now!
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