BSOD on USB Bootable, crashing and freezing - Bad CPU?

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blackhairedgoon

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I get BSODs when booting from a Windows 10 USB bootable, as well as almost constant BSODs when booting from a hard drive, and if it does boot, crashes or freezes shortly after.

BSOD errors are:
Critical_Process_Died
Machine_Check_Exception
IRQL_Not_Less_Or_Equal
KMode_Exception_Not_Handled
Driver_Vcerifier_Detected_Violation
Attempted_To_Write_To_Readonly_Memory

Its a clean install on the harddrive so there arent any recently installed drivers. Errors are the same whether booting from USB or HDD. RAM Has been tested with MemTest and there are no errors.

Minidumps:
http://www.filedropper.com/050617-7953-01
http://www.filedropper.com/050617-7953-01

Anyone know what could be causing this?

Also I cant use an XMP profile mode or Sync All Cores for the CPU, that always results in BSODs.


Specs:
i5 7600K, non overclocked
16gb Corsair 3200mhz RAM
8gb RX480
Asus Z270-P motherboard
EVGA Supernove G2 550W PSU



EDIT:
I've put in another CPU and so far it seems to run fine, it's been running the OS from the HDD with no crashes. Would that not rule out the motherboard as being faulty?
 
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Huh. Most people don't have another CPU laying around to test like that, lol. Yeah, if you popped in another CPU and it's working, the CPU is likely the problem. I would do some stress testing on the working CPU, do some Prime95 for an hour or so, see if you can zero-fill a spare hard drive. If you can stress the system without and BSODs, time to give Intel a call for a replacement.
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dstarr3

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A bad CPU is a pretty rare phenomenon. I think the motherboard itself is a much more likely culprit. Perhaps the USB and SATA controllers are on the fritz. I would try getting a hold of ASUS and see if they can verify if those are likely bad mobo errors.

One possible test is grabbing a free Linux distro, Ubuntu or something, loading it on a USB and seeing if it can boot that. That'll at least rule out driver issues if Linux also BSODs.
 
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which CPU are you using now ? also is your bios up to date ?
 
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Huh. Most people don't have another CPU laying around to test like that, lol. Yeah, if you popped in another CPU and it's working, the CPU is likely the problem. I would do some stress testing on the working CPU, do some Prime95 for an hour or so, see if you can zero-fill a spare hard drive. If you can stress the system without and BSODs, time to give Intel a call for a replacement.
 
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eyupo92

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Not that rare though. Historically Intel CPU failure rate has been between 1 / 1000 and 1 / 10000.



 
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