Motherboard seems to be shot, Windows always bluescreens and can't install anew

[SPARC]

This is my brother's PC that I built him with hand-me-down parts.

 

One day Windows just started to bluescreen every time it booted up, and it always gave me a BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO error.

 

Nothing in the install repair seemed to work, so I put Windows on a flash drive and decided to install anew.

 

However, when I tried the UEFI setting, the splash screen seemed to just glitch.

 

If I tried regular booting, it always got stuck on a blinking cursor.

 

I tried clearing the CMOS and flashing a new BIOS to no avail.

 

It's an MSI 970 Gaming with an FX-8320, GTX 960, and 8GB of Patriot Viper RAM.

[Radium_Angel]

2 minutes ago, Ionosphere said:

It's an MSI 970 Gaming with an FX-8320, GTX 960, and 8GB of Patriot Viper RAM.

There's much to unpack here.

Could be bad RAM, failing PSU or possibly mobo, given the age of the system.

 

Memtest86 is easiest way to rule out RAM, assuming you can get it to boot from a USB stick.

Otherwise, probably time for new system

[SPARC]

1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

There's much to unpack here.

Could be bad RAM, failing PSU or possibly mobo, given the age of the system.

 

Memtest86 is easiest way to rule out RAM, assuming you can get it to boot from a USB stick.

Otherwise, probably time for new system

Uh yeah so I tried running a test on both the RAM and CPU... it rebooted a few seconds later and now the loading won't go past "Testing multiprocessor support".

 

Everything's falling like dominoes. One bad thing leads to another.

 

Ah well, guess it's time he got a new system.