Fresh install of 8.1 freezing on first screen

Tinggg

Commendable
Jan 8, 2017
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Asus X99-S Mobo
Intel 5820k
Asus GTX 970 Strix
16gb DDR4 Crucial ram
Samsung 840 evo 500gb ssd
Corsair HX750i psu

Hi, this build of mine had been working for over year, until recently, when it suddenly was not able to post. I partially overcame this by flashing the bios to the latest version (it only post's some of the time now, the others i get the error code 95 on the mobo which means PCI Bus Request Resources). Then when the machine would post, windows 10 kept trying to auto repair but it would never work and it would crash. I got fed up with this and decided to wipe the ssd in order to do a fresh install from my windows 8.1 disc. Naively I thought this would be relatively stress free, but instead the install freezes at the first logo screen with the spinning circles. I read around and saw that it could be an issue with the dvd or with 8.1 itself. So I made a 8.1 usb installer - resulted in the same freeze, then tried a windows 10 usb installer - same freeze again. Occasionally I have received a blue screen with the error code WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR.

In my attempt to overcome this I have tried an MSI X99S Sli Plus motherboard, a different graphics card, different psu, replacing the ssd with a normal hard drive, removing all usb devices as the install starts and tried each stick of ram one at a time. This has led me to believe that it is a problem with my cpu as I have pretty much tried everything else, but I really don't want this to be true. I'm all out of ideas and google is failing me, so I turn to you, the good people of Tom's Hardware, please help me get my machine up and running again, as at the moment I am very frustrated.

Thanks for any help in advance


 

Colif

Win 11 Master
Moderator
The only part you didn't replace is the cause of a Windows Hardware error Architecture (WHEA) error... its your CPU and since you replaced everything else, and it still does it, its unlikely to be bios.

looks like you need to RMA that CPU. There are ways to test them but not wihtout windows running and not in a PC that doesn't post consistently