Windows Files Corrupted, Possible Hardware Issues can't Boot Windows

mikerychwalski

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Hi,

I purchased A PC a little over a year ago and everything has been fine up until five days ago. I could boot to windows, but within 15 minutes or so of normal function it would freeze with whatever sound was being output looping into a loud buzzing sound.

I started monitoring my voltages and heat during these 15 minute stints and nothing was out of the ordinary.

Friday windows failed to boot so I went into cmd and ran sfc /scannow and it reported corrupted windows files.

I have windows on its own SSD separate from my HDD that holds my other programs etc., So I reinstalled windows from the windows boot menu.

The reinstall went through just fine, but the freezing continued. I booted in safe mode and ran "DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth" and it got to about 80% before telling me it had failed.

Went on a trip for a couple days and now my PC won't boot to windows, it freezes at the loading screen for my Mobo (MSI, little circles spinning) I can get into BIOS and change boot orders and all, but can't get Windows to do anything but blue screen, even on a Bootable windows install USB. So I individually went through the boot order and disabled each item to check them each and it still froze every time, at varying times.

I removed the SSD (but not the HDD) and it still froze.

I removed my GPU and it still froze.

I removed both the GPU and SSD and it froze.

Also I ran each stick of RAM in each port both together and individually, covering each permutation, to no avail.

Sometimes the BSOD for W10 fully appears, sometimes it freezes after a few displayed characters ("Your PC team into a pro" etc.) And each time I get different Stop codes. I've gotten IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL, an MCE (though this is without the SSD, mouse and keyboard attached,) and one or two others I can't remember.

Can I do something with the EFI Shell functionality?

What's the next step?

According to my buy order from the website, I have a 3 year service plan, and I am by no means a professional, more of a hobbyist, is there an easy fix or do I send it in?

Copy pasted build from website I purchased from (call me lazy):

CPU: Intel® Core™ Processor i7-6700K 4.00GHZ 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151 (Skylake)
CS_FAN: Free 4X 120mm Thermaltake Riing 12 Series High Static Pressure 120mm Case/Radiator Fan (Orange Color LED)
DOCKINGSTATION: None
ENGRAVING: None
FA_HDD: None
FAN: Asetek 550LC 120mm Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler - Extreme Cooling Performance (Single Standard 120MM FAN)
HD_M2SSD: 128GB Intel® SSD 600p Series PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD - 1800MB/s Read & 560MB/s Write (Single Drive)
HD_PCIE1X_SSD: None
HDD: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)
HDD2: None
IUSB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
MEMORY: 8GB (4GBx2) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG Z1)
MOTHERBOARD: MSI Z170A PC Mate ATX w/ USB 3.1, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 1 SATA Express, 6 SATA3, 1 Ultra M.2
NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
OS: Windows 10 Home (64-bit Edition)
POWERSUPPLY: 800 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply - SLI/CrossFireX Ready [+8]
SERVICE: 3 Years FREE Service Plan (INCLUDES LABOR AND LIFETIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT)
SLI_BRIDGE: Standard SLI/Crossfire Bridge
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: GeForce® GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 (Pascal)[VR Ready] (Single Card)
 
Solution

What, EXACT, PSU (brand make, model,etc)do you have?
Crashes (BSOD, random re-boots) tend to be power related, while freezes(sound looping, etc.) tend to be memory related.
From your description, I would suspect that there is an issue with your ram. Try to run Memtest86, if you can, to eliminate that.

 
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