Is my motherboard busted?

lisida19

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Jan 22, 2015
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I have an ASUS Z-170-A with a i7-6700, new build, it worked fine for a day then this morning then everything freezes a few minutes after booting up. I have 16GB Corsair DDR4 3200MHz memory that I've overclocked to 3.3k, a EVGA GTX 1060 6GB.
* I've tried with both integrated graphics and the GPU, it still had the same problems.

* I've done a diskcheck on my Samsung 850 EVO SSD but didn't find any problems.

* I've reinstalled my operating system 3 times yesterday (ubuntu 16.04) because it kept getting stuck when I tried to download Nvidia drivers because I had safe boot turned on. Even with that my system still had unknown problems detected, but the computer was still useable

* I've tried running Linux on an USB drive and it still had the same problems.

*I've tested my RAM and didn't find any problems. I've also switched DIMM slots, used only 1 stick and it still had the same problems.

* When I first had this problem, even the UEFI BIOS was frozen. Now, if I'm lucky I can go through the login screen.

I don't think I could've seated the CPU badly because I had the computer running for a good 4-5 hours straight, the temperature is at a good 25C and I've used the tool that came with the motherboard to properly install the CPU.
 
Solution
have you tried to take off the overclocking to see it is boots properly without issues afterwards, could be your overclocking is just abit unstable.