BSOD While Installing Fresh Windows 10

[joza]

Hello,

 

I am completely stumped. A year and a half ago I built myself a computer with the following specs. Ryzen 5 2600, G.SKILL Aegis 3000MHz RAM, GTX 1070, and Gigabyte B450M DS3H mobo. This build had not blue screened once.

 

However, the mobo was purchased used and some of the USB ports did not work so I decided to upgrade my PC recently.

 

I purchased new XPG Spectrix D60G RGB 16GB DDR4-3200MHz RAM, an MSI B450 Tomahawk Max II mobo, and Coolermaster Hyper 212 CPU cooler.

 

I swapped out the old parts and booted up my PC. I did not uninstall any drivers or fresh install windows. It posted and booted completely normally. I played Stardew Valley for about 5 hours when my PC blue screened on me.

 

I decided I should fresh install windows so I went to factory reset in the windows menu. The PC blue screened while trying to factory reset. To bypass this I tried to fresh install from a USB stick in the boot menu instead. I made it to the partition list section and was able to wipe both my drives and then it blue screened again.

 

Now immediately after selecting to boot from the USB it blue screens.

 

Fixes I have tried:

-Booted with old RAM

-Booted with only SSD connected

-Booted with only HDD connected

-Booted with different SATA cables

-Returned Tomahawk and tried new Tomahawk mobo

-Booted using different USB install stick and different USB ports

-Updated BIOS

 

As the PC was fine before swapping mobo’s I am assuming both the GPU and CPU are not problem parts (I am not sure if this is a fair assumption). I am also assuming that this is not caused by faulty RAM or mobo as this has essentially been tested by swapping to old RAM and different Tomahawk, respectively.

 

My only remaining hunch is that my two storage devices (SSD and HDD) have become corrupted and are causing this issue. Before purchasing new drives I wanted to see if something else might be causing this issue.

 

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if any additional info needs to be provided (as I cannot boot into windows I am not sure how to provide a crash dump). Thank you so much!

 

EDIT: It has been determined that my CPU was the cause of the issue. Somehow it failed. After replacement, my PC has run with no issues.

[leclod]

[evilcloud]

can you boot in to linux?  Worth a try, see if it's a windows specific issue or not

[joza]

It was determined that my CPU has failed. I have replaced the 2600 with a 5600X and my PC is running with no issues.

 

As an aside, could my new mobo have fried my CPU, or could it have been something else (PSU)? Would it be worth replacing my PSU to safeguard against issues in the future?