Troubleshooting X99 build

[throttlemeister]

For the past month or so, I have been trying to figure out what is wrong with my computer. One day working from home, I shut it down after work and when I try to start it up the next morning it hard crashes with a kernel panic on Linux. There was no updates or new kernel since the last boot.

 

Finding this weird, I tried booting Windows (different disk, different boot partition): bluescreen. It never bluescreens.

 

No matter what I do, I cannot boot from either drive.

 

What I have tried:

- Removing all 8 sticks of memory and reseating them

- Removing all 8 sticks of memory and booting using only a single module in the recommended slot

- Removing the CPU and reseating it with fresh paste

- Trying to boot from USB - same result as attempting to boot from disk

- Resetting the BIOS to defaults and reapplying settings without OC manually

- Same as above, but by removing the backup battery

- Removing the GPU from the system and attempt to boot headless

- Changing the PSU

 

Nothing changes. I can get into BIOS/EFI, but that's it. It will not boot, but hard crash regardless of OS or disk - internal or USB.

 

This is, as the title indicates a X99 build with a 5960X cpu and 64G of ram. It has run super ever since I built it without so much as a hickup, It is cooled with a full custom loop watercooling system and temps rarely get over 60C. Voltages and temps look just fine from BIOS, but it will not boot.

 

I am lost. Trying to get a cheap Xeon for this socket now to exclude the CPU, but not having hopes. I just don't know anymore. It doesn't make sense.

[OddOod]

Sounds like a dead mobo

[throttlemeister]

It appears to have been the CPU. I have replaced the 5960X with a cheap Xeon (2680-V4) and the machine works just fine and dandy. Started right up, no fuss.

 

I guess I will need to go on the hunt for something like a 6950X at a nice price, which would be a nice (and last) upgrade too. :)