Constant crashes, fresh PC. Details in thread.

[thedankmaster1337]

To whom may read this thread,

I am at a complete and utter loss. For the past 6 days I have been troubleshooting various problems all stemming from the windows 10 installation on my brand new gaming desktop.

Here's a list of the parts:
GPU: Asus - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB STRIX GAMING OC Video Card
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 850W 80+ Gold
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero (WiFi-AC)
CPU: Intel i7-8700K 3.6 GHz
Cooler: H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU cooler
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
Storage: 1- Samsung - 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
2- Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5' 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

Now that the parts are out of the way (Case excluded), onto the problem. I will be as detailed as possible, so excuse me for the long post ahead.

Part 1 - I have a mac, and thus making a bootable USB Windows 10 ISO proved to be rather challenging until I found a guide on how to do it. The process seemed to go rather successful, and I got no errors. I assembled the components, and made sure to seat the ram properly. I placed the ram into a R * R * formation, where * is empty. Before anyone says to try a different formation, I tried each possible conformation, and my problem is still there. I even ran memtest86 and no errors were found. My ram is not faulty and I am 100% sure it is compatible as I checked the QVL from both ASUS and G.Skill and the ram is there. The CPU is also compatible as this is a coffee lake CPU so it uses the Z370 chipset which the ROG Maximus X Hero (WiFi-AC) supports. I am using all default bios settings and the M.2 slot is correctly populated. The HDD is not connected at the moment.

Part 2 - Setting up the bootable windows image onto the usb using the mac seemed to have worked as upon plugging the usb into the PC, the bios recognized it as a bootable usb and booted straight to it. The installation went fine and I was able to login into the account I had just made ~10 minutes ago. All seems to have went well, up until sporadically at intervals between 5-10 minutes after logging in, the PC would BSOD, and display error messages such as : IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION or sometimes just BSOD with no error at all. The BSOD is also not telling me which file is the cause, as pointed by the absence of (file.*) where * is whatever extension the file follows. I have reinstalled windows a numerable amount of times, with each reinstallation making sure to reseat the RAM into a different conformation to see if it was the root of the problem, to no avail. I do not know what to do at this point, and I am willing to try anything that I already have not done.

To reiterate, I have ran memtest86, no errors. I reseated the RAM into different conformations, still crashes. I reinstalled windows, still crashes. I tried installing it onto the HDD, still crashes. I tried installing it onto the SSD, still crashes. I haven't been able to use my PC ever since I got the parts. No part seems to be faulty from what I can tell. The only thing I haven't tested because I haven't been able to stay in windows long enough to test is the GPU. If there is any way to test if the GPU is faulty or not, please let me know.

Thanks for your time.

 

[cin19]

Remove the M2 SSD, and don't plug the USB in too. Just boot the PC without any bootable device, if you can boot the PC but you get not boot device error. That means the PC is fine.

And next you may try make the bootable win10 USB with PC, not the mac, or maybe try to mkae the bootable USB again, because RQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL related to the drivers, other one SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION related to graphics driver.

 

[Calvin7]

F4-3000C15D-32GTZ
https://www.gskill.com/en/product/f4-3000c15d-32gtz

Intel Core i7-8700K specifications
Supported memory: DDR4-2666

The memory you have chosen has a SPD speed of 2133MHz, which is what the memory will run at if left on [Auto], which is fine for the initial boot up. You need to set the memory parameters in the BIOS whether manually or by enabling XMP.

 

[ElectrO_90]

Also you don't need to plug in the GPU as the Intel CPU has a built in graphics card. So you can eliminate that.
I suggest what Cin19 said, I think you could have a problem with your USB install, try and source it from someone else.

Remember all you need in your computer is - CPU, 1 RAM stick, SSD to install it onto, that's it, apart from mouse/keyboard.
Adding any more than this, when fault finding is a pain.

 

[thedankmaster1337]

Thank you all for the prompt replies, I will be doing the fixes suggested here and will come back with any results.