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MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION error when installing windows 10

AlienEmporer10
By AlienEmporer10
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Hey, first time posting so here goes.

 

So I built a new rig from a bunch of used parts, got it to post and enter bios without a problem. When I threw in my windows 10 install disk it gets to the black screen with the win10 icon, the circle of dots begins to come up and then the system freezes and i get a BSOD with a line saying "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION"

After looking this up i attempted to:

Clear the CMOS

Reseat the RAM

use only one stick of RAM

use different ram (hyperx Fury 8GB)

Reseat the cooler

Reseat the CPU and Cooler

Reseat the video card

Unplug dvd drive and ssd & boot from USB

use a different PSU

None of which worked... (and killed a stick of RAM in the process) then i found and old 32Bit win7 disk and figured "what the heck"... it worked without a problem. I also read that someone with the same problem had win7 64Bit work just fine but i don't have a disk or ISO for it. So before i go and really start looking for a 64Bit win7 disk I was hoping someone here might have an Idea. I really want Win10 to work.

System Specs:

CPU: i7-4820K (not yet OC)

cooler: Corsair H80i

mobo: ASRock x79 Extreme4-M

Ram: Mushkin Redline 4GB (believe it's 1333Mhz)

PSU: Seasonic SS1250XM

GPU: Gtx 650Ti

 

I love puzzles when playing around with builds but this has me stumped, any help would be greatly appreciated!

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possible issues:

1. your sata cable is damaged

2. your sata port is damaged

3. your ntfs is damaged

4. your motherboard is damaged

 

possible solutions:

1.change the cable

2.change the sata port

3.create a live boot gparted usb and reformat the harddrive

4.switch out the motherboard

Brandon Marsh

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go to this page http://www.linuxliveusb.com/, download and install the program. Then go to this page http://gparted.org/download.php and install the  Download gparted-live-0.26.1-5-i686.iso under "Stable Releases". run the LinuxLive USB Creator, follow the steps then select the .ISO you downloaded and click install. it should take anywhere from 1-5 mins. then just plug the usb drive into the computer your fixing and select it in the boot devices. once it boots up, on the desktop you want to double click gparted. your going to select your harddrive(s) and reformat them, by default it will put them in a fat32 format. you can either leave it there(when you install windows it will say that it needs to be reformatted, that is fine) or you can change it to a NTFS format manually. once your done reformatting the drives click the green check mark at the top right of the screen, let it do it's buissness and once its done exit the gparted program and double click shutdown on the desktop. unplug the usb. then insert your windows 10 cd,USB and run the setup again. If your familiar with windows programs gparted will be easy to understand as it has a very well put together interface and is extremely intuitive. HOPE THIS HELPS!!!!

 

EDIT: note that you can right click in gparted like you can in windows, that might help with finding all the settings you need to reformat your drives.

Brandon Marsh

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Been awhile, but a bit of an update...

managed to find a Windows 7 x64 install disk and it worked perfectly... Still no luck with Windows 10 though, so if anyone has more ideas i'll give them a try, otherwise it's gonna stay windows 7 for the rest of its life

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