Issues After Transition from Z170/6600k to X99/6800k

[ArtoriaPendragon]

I recently got a hold of an ASUS X99-E motherboard along with an i7 6800k (that I paid 90 dollars for thanks to Amazon selling it for 299.99 and me having a bunch of reward points) and switched my old ASUS Z170-A and i5 6600k out. The transition was smooth and I was able to overclock the 6800k to a stable 4.3 GHz. After this, I ran Cinebnech for my feel good points and left my PC on for about 8 hours with a Source engine game running in the background, some 20 tabs of Google Chrome, and World of Tanks at the garage. After 8 hours, I woke up to find that my computer had BSOD'd and restarted. Every single time I attempted to restart I would get a BSOD before even seeing the splash screen. I took out all but one of the DIMMs, thinking it was a RAM issue and made it as far as the automatic repair menu before getting a BSOD again. I tried going back to stock clock settings, updating my BIOS, and am now in the process of running chkdsk off my Win 8.1 CD. Do you guys have any ideas what the issue could be?

 

The BSOD messages I have received thus far:

Driver_Corrupted_Expool

Driver_Overran_Stack_Buffer

Page_Fault_In_Nonpaged_Area

Thread_Exception_Not_Handled

Kernel_Security_Check_Failure

 

I have also received other BSODs but were not able to read the message out before my computer attempted to reboot again. I would prefer not having to completely reinstall Windows as I had left some data on the boot drive that I had not yet backed up.

[Limecat86]

14 minutes ago, ArtoriaPendragon said:

I recently got a hold of an ASUS X99-E motherboard along with an i7 6800k (that I paid 90 dollars for thanks to Amazon selling it for 299.99 and me having a bunch of reward points) and switched my old ASUS Z170-A and i5 6600k out. The transition was smooth and I was able to overclock the 6800k to a stable 4.3 GHz. After this, I ran Cinebnech for my feel good points and left my PC on for about 8 hours with a Source engine game running in the background, some 20 tabs of Google Chrome, and World of Tanks at the garage. After 8 hours, I woke up to find that my computer had BSOD'd and restarted. Every single time I attempted to restart I would get a BSOD before even seeing the splash screen. I took out all but one of the DIMMs, thinking it was a RAM issue and made it as far as the automatic repair menu before getting a BSOD again. I tried going back to stock clock settings, updating my BIOS, and am now in the process of running chkdsk off my Win 8.1 CD. Do you guys have any ideas what the issue could be?

 

The BSOD messages I have received thus far:

Driver_Corrupted_Expool

Driver_Overran_Stack_Buffer

Page_Fault_In_Nonpaged_Area

Thread_Exception_Not_Handled

Kernel_Security_Check_Failure

 

I have also received other BSODs but were not able to read the message out before my computer attempted to reboot again. I would prefer not having to completely reinstall Windows as I had left some data on the boot drive that I had not yet backed up.

Have you tried switching RAM sticks out? And in different DIMM slots? I'm suspecting (assuming on a clean installed Windows) either one or more bad ram sticks or bad DIMM slots...

[ArtoriaPendragon]

1 minute ago, Limecat86 said:

Have you tried switching RAM sticks out? And in different DIMM slots? I'm suspecting (assuming on a clean installed Windows) either one or more bad ram sticks or bad DIMM slots...

Yes I have.

[Limecat86]

16 minutes ago, ArtoriaPendragon said:

Yes I have.

Hmm, though one. It could also be the harddrive or SSD whereever your Windows is installed.

But first thing I would do is a memtest.

[done12many2]

Have you cleared CMOS and set everything back to default?

[ArtoriaPendragon]

1 minute ago, done12many2 said:

Have you cleared CMOS and set everything back to default?

Right after I tried swapping out the DIMMs.

[ArtoriaPendragon]

8 minutes ago, Limecat86 said:

Hmm, though one. It could also be the harddrive or SSD whereever your Windows is installed.

But first thing I would do is a memtest.

I'll give that a go after chkdsk is done running

[done12many2]

Just now, ArtoriaPendragon said:

I'll give that a go after chkdsk is done running

 

I noticed that you have a couple of SSDs.  Can you install a fresh install of Windows onto the other one to test with?

 

I run multiple copies of Windows specifically for this reason.  I have my daily copy of Windows loaded onto one SSD and I never boot into that OS with anything other than stock settings or a proven overclock.  I have Windows on other SSDs for benchmarking and stability testing.  Crashes, especially those related to memory can corrupt Windows files very badly.

 

 

[ArtoriaPendragon]

2 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

 

I noticed that you have a couple of SSDs.  Can you install a fresh install of Windows onto the other one to test with?

 

I run multiple copies of Windows specifically for this reason.  I have my daily copy of Windows loaded onto one SSD and I never boot into that OS with anything other than stock settings or a proven overclock.  I have Windows on other SSDs for benchmarking and stability testing.  Crashes, especially those related to memory can corrupt Windows files very badly.

 

 

The only SSD with any space left is the MP500 so I'll try after chkdsk finishes (50% on stage 4) and memtest.

[TahoeDust]

You did re-install Windows after the hardware change right?

[ArtoriaPendragon]

3 minutes ago, TahoeDust said:

You did re-install Windows after the hardware change right?

 

Yup. I might just try re-installing again but during the time that I had it working, I had saved some .xcf files on the boot drive that I would prefer not to lose.

[ArtoriaPendragon]

So I've run into a problem. I can't even get through Windows installation with a disk without BSODing.

[-rascal-]

41 minutes ago, ArtoriaPendragon said:

So I've run into a problem. I can't even get through Windows installation with a disk without BSODing.

 

This sounds like the disk you are trying to install your OS on is on its last legs.

Do you have all your other drives unplugged while the OS is installing?

 

Just to be sure, did you refer ALL your overclock settings back to stock/default?

That means, CPU, RAM, etc.

 

[ArtoriaPendragon]

19 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

This sounds like the disk you are trying to install your OS on is on its last legs.

Do you have all your other drives unplugged while the OS is installing?

 

Just to be sure, did you refer ALL your overclock settings back to stock/default?

That means, CPU, RAM, etc.

 

The only drive connected during installation is the M.2

 

All settings are back to default. I'm currently getting a Win 8.1 USB ready.

[ArtoriaPendragon]

Seems like the BSOD is always BAD_POOL_HEADER when I try to boot from CD.

[ArtoriaPendragon]

Same deal w/ the USB.

[ArtoriaPendragon]

The DIMMs were working just fine with the Z170-A...

[ArtoriaPendragon]

Bump and new question before RMA.

 

The DIMM slots are detecting the modules but there seems to be a lot of memory-related BSODs. Could there be a possibility that this is on the motherboard's end where DIMMs are detected but there are issues? The DIMMs were pulled from a Z170-A board and was working fine on it. 

[ArtoriaPendragon]

Update: Amazon is sending me a board with same day shipping so I'll be able to check if it was just a defective mobo or not since my DIMMs were working just fine with the Z170.