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I recently just built my PC. It was running fine for about 6 hours on Windows 11. And then it crashed. Originally, when I'd restart my computer, I could boot all the way to my desktop. And I'd have access on my desktop for about 30 seconds to 1 minute before it would freeze and crash. But that doesn't happen anymore. And now every time I reboot it goes straight to a blue screen with either the stop code "CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT" or "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION". Even when I try to boot and safe mode it starts the "preparing automatic repair" screen and then restarts. And then on the restart it starts to load and then immediately goes to a blue screen. With one of the previous stop codes.

I have no idea what to do. I've tried swapping out ram sticks to different slots and running four sticks, two sticks or one stick and it still does the same thing. I'm not running any overclocks on anything and I disabled XMP on my memory.

My motherboard is an ASUS strix Z790-e
My CPU is an i7 13700k
The RAM is g skill DDR5 6400
And I have a strix 4090

This is incredibly frustrating considering I have saved a lot of money to build my dream PC and it is not working. I'm just hoping that maybe somebody can help me out with what problems there may be. Whether it's a hardware issue or a software issue. The q code on the motherboard says 37. Which is apparently means "post-memory system agent initialization is started" and I have no idea what that means. I just want my computer to work. 

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28 minutes ago, MrSecurity95 said:

I recently just built my PC. It was running fine for about 6 hours on Windows 11. And then it crashed. Originally, when I'd restart my computer, I could boot all the way to my desktop. And I'd have access on my desktop for about 30 seconds to 1 minute before it would freeze and crash. But that doesn't happen anymore. And now every time I reboot it goes straight to a blue screen with either the stop code "CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT" or "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION". Even when I try to boot and safe mode it starts the "preparing automatic repair" screen and then restarts. And then on the restart it starts to load and then immediately goes to a blue screen. With one of the previous stop codes.

I have no idea what to do. I've tried swapping out ram sticks to different slots and running four sticks, two sticks or one stick and it still does the same thing. I'm not running any overclocks on anything and I disabled XMP on my memory.

My motherboard is an ASUS strix Z790-e
My CPU is an i7 13700k
The RAM is g skill DDR5 6400
And I have a strix 4090

This is incredibly frustrating considering I have saved a lot of money to build my dream PC and it is not working. I'm just hoping that maybe somebody can help me out with what problems there may be. Whether it's a hardware issue or a software issue. The q code on the motherboard says 37. Which is apparently means "post-memory system agent initialization is started" and I have no idea what that means. I just want my computer to work. 

A Clock_Watchdog_Timeout BSOD error relates to a problem between your system and CPU communicating. It's a system-level process called “system interrupt,” which is normal behavior. However, if your system spends too long in the interrupt phase, you'll get a bluescreen error.  http://rb.gy/m6ubn

The Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) error Machine Check Exception, appears when your system fails to load or recognize any installed hardware or software. These are the main things that may cause this error Intel

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6 hours ago, ET_Explorer said:

A Clock_Watchdog_Timeout BSOD error relates to a problem between your system and CPU communicating. It's a system-level process called “system interrupt,” which is normal behavior. However, if your system spends too long in the interrupt phase, you'll get a bluescreen error.  http://rb.gy/m6ubn

The Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) error Machine Check Exception, appears when your system fails to load or recognize any installed hardware or software. These are the main things that may cause this error Intel

So do you think my CPU could be a dud. Or maybe my motherboard? I mean it ran games for 6 hours before it started doing this. I've also tried numerous fixes. Trying to boot from windows from the BIOS on a USB (which gave me the same results of booting straight to a BSOD) I also tried running memtest86 through the bios and every time it gets to 80% and then my computer shuts off and restarts. And I find it hard to believe that all for my RAM sticks are bad. But anything is possible. I feel pretty confident now that it's most likely a hardware issue. I just don't know what part. I took my GPU out and the results are still the same. I'm just curious as to whether I should try to replace the motherboard, the CPU or the ram or all of them.

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