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Ok so I've been trying to diagnose this weird problem for a bit now. My son's computer when turned on power cycles a few times then sometimes let's you get into windows, which is fine for a bit but sometimes it will just randomly power cycle again but sometimes it enters a "how you can try to repair your pc" screen. That screen will say 2 options "restart" and "advanced options". I've tried running virus/malwear scan, removing the ram sticks and re seating them, starying it up with 1 ram stick (switched between the 2), re formatting both drives but keeping windows files, reformatting both drives clean and reinstalling windows from a clean slate. Most recently after the full wipe and windows re install it was staying on for hours while re downloading games back to his pc but after turning it off for the night and coming back to check it and start the downloading again it did the whole power cycle and to the "repair" screen again... I'm lost any help would be great. Build is 

Asus prime Z-590p

I5 10400f

16gb of patriot 3200mhz ram

Operating system is on a 500gb m.2 only thing on that module

All other stuff is on a 2TB ssd

Air cooled cpu

Msi 2060 super 

Hope I didn't leave out any important details. Amd thanks in advance. (Edit: I've since checked both drives thru the CMD prompt and there both "ok" also ran the error finding and they also checked out with no trouble.

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Try turning off XMP in the BIOS. If you happened to overclock anything else, revert that back to stock, too. Sometimes when I mess with my RAM settings and it is just barely unstable, but not unstable enough to crash right away, my computer will act similar to this.

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There is 0 overclocking on this pc. For some reason in the bios X.M.P. doesn't even give me the option to enable it. If you click that box it opens up like its going to give you the option to change it, but only has the disable option lol.  But good call on this and thank you!

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