I built this system in July and have had no problems for the most part. This issue started last weekend, I got a blue screen playing BF1 and could not boot at all the rest of the night. I went to bed, and the next morning, everything was fine! I played a few hours during the week and didn't have any problems at all. On Thursday night, I had the same problem, but the computer has not been able to successfully boot since.
I kept getting a sequence of bluescreens related to drivers, reaching to invalid memory, kmode_exception_not_handled, and irql_not_less_or_equal. It seems like the bluescreen changes every time I try to boot. The only hardware change that occurred in this time was charging my girlfriend's pebble watch from the front USB ports on the computer.
Before I go into what I've done to diagnose this so far, this is my system comp:
ASUS Maximus VIII Impact
i7-6700K
2x8GB GSkill TridentZ DDR4-4000
Gigabyte GTX 980Ti XTREME GAMING OC
1x1TB,2x500GB Samsung SSD
Corsair H105 Liquid Cooler
Corsair SF600 SFX PSU
Here's what I've done:
1. Unplugged all memory, then tested each stick individually. Same errors came up.
2. Unplugged all of my SSDs and tried to boot from a drive from another computer. No change.
3. Disconnected GPU and connected monitor to motherboard. Same errors.
4. Unplugged everything but power and monitor.
5. MemTest86 run off of a USB - freezes 38 seconds in. I think this means that the problem is larger than memory, because memtest would have just encountered a memory error and continued, not frozen altogether. Now, memtest freezes during the initialization at "retrieving CPU MSR data" and doesn't even get to testing.
I am pretty sure the diagnosis here is that either my motherboard, CPU, or PSU is shot. What do you think? I am confused about the problems happening a week ago and then it being fine for a few days before starting up again. To me, this indicates that something in the environment is causing the problem, but nothing has really changed in the past week.
edit: For clarification: the bluescreens happen after the motherboard splash, as windows tries to start. Sometimes during "automatic repair". Sometimes it just powercycles at the point where it would normally load from the drive, then bluescreens on the next boot.
I kept getting a sequence of bluescreens related to drivers, reaching to invalid memory, kmode_exception_not_handled, and irql_not_less_or_equal. It seems like the bluescreen changes every time I try to boot. The only hardware change that occurred in this time was charging my girlfriend's pebble watch from the front USB ports on the computer.
Before I go into what I've done to diagnose this so far, this is my system comp:
ASUS Maximus VIII Impact
i7-6700K
2x8GB GSkill TridentZ DDR4-4000
Gigabyte GTX 980Ti XTREME GAMING OC
1x1TB,2x500GB Samsung SSD
Corsair H105 Liquid Cooler
Corsair SF600 SFX PSU
Here's what I've done:
1. Unplugged all memory, then tested each stick individually. Same errors came up.
2. Unplugged all of my SSDs and tried to boot from a drive from another computer. No change.
3. Disconnected GPU and connected monitor to motherboard. Same errors.
4. Unplugged everything but power and monitor.
5. MemTest86 run off of a USB - freezes 38 seconds in. I think this means that the problem is larger than memory, because memtest would have just encountered a memory error and continued, not frozen altogether. Now, memtest freezes during the initialization at "retrieving CPU MSR data" and doesn't even get to testing.
I am pretty sure the diagnosis here is that either my motherboard, CPU, or PSU is shot. What do you think? I am confused about the problems happening a week ago and then it being fine for a few days before starting up again. To me, this indicates that something in the environment is causing the problem, but nothing has really changed in the past week.
edit: For clarification: the bluescreens happen after the motherboard splash, as windows tries to start. Sometimes during "automatic repair". Sometimes it just powercycles at the point where it would normally load from the drive, then bluescreens on the next boot.
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