Can only boot about a 1 out of 20 tries

[Juggernaught]

I have been struggling for some time with my machine.

 

 

• MSI X99 Godlike Motherboard
• intel 5930k CPU
• Corsair all in one H115i Cooler
• 980ti
• Kingston DDR4 Fury Hyperx 8GB x 4 (32GB)
• Samsung sm951 m.2 Boot 512GB
• Samsung Evo 850 Pro 1 TB Programs
• Windows 10

 

The history to this goes back to August, but BLUF 3 motherboards later, different CPU, and finding that 2 out of the 4 RAM Sticks have gone to crap (which are being RMAed)  Currently when I boot it goes all the way through on the board, but I don't see anything on the screen.  This happens about 29/30 boots.  I had a corrupt m.2 sad and was finally able to get a usb boot to go through and I reformatted it.  The installation of the new windows froze though and my computer restarted and now I have to hit reset about 50 times before I get anything on the screen, but I see that my motherboard is showing the temperature of the cpu.  I have since gotten lucky and tried to install windows from the usb twice, but each time it freezes at different points in the process.  (New iso image and new usb stick).  Is there a hardware problem with my m.2?

[Anghammarad]

I would point, without having had my hands on that machine myself, to ram and or storage device (ssd/hdd). 

 

I guess your are running everything at stock speeds without overclock. Try turning of the XMP profile if it is active to let the ram run slower to rule a faulty XMP out.

 

 

[.Ocean]

Just to clarify, you installed windows from a live USB to a brand new m.2 drive? Not the drive you found out was corrupted?

To troubleshoot further I would recommend you grab a sata drive and try installing that way. If thats the case you can rule out problems with m.2 (whether it be the drive or the mobo)

[paddy-stone]

At this point, you'd be better off ruling stuff out, so use a different SSD or even HDD to install windows on. If it still gives you trouble then the SSD may not be the problem at all.

[Juggernaught]

27 minutes ago, .Ocean said:

Just to clarify, you installed windows from a live USB to a brand new m.2 drive? Not the drive you found out was corrupted?

To troubleshoot further I would recommend you grab a sata drive and try installing that way. If thats the case you can rule out problems with m.2 (whether it be the drive or the mobo)

Negative I reformatted the original m.2 and am trying to install the OS back onto it through the USB, but it keeps freezing on the two times I have made it that far.  I only have one RAM stick in their as I found two of the 4 were bad.  I don't have an extra HDD or SSD laying around to test.  I guess I might take the one that I use for storage and try it on there

[.Ocean]

15 hours ago, Juggernaught said:

Negative I reformatted the original m.2 and am trying to install the OS back onto it through the USB, but it keeps freezing on the two times I have made it that far.  I only have one RAM stick in their as I found two of the 4 were bad.  I don't have an extra HDD or SSD laying around to test.  I guess I might take the one that I use for storage and try it on there

Just because you reformatted the m.2 doesn't mean that it fixed the problem. It is a possibility that there is something wrong with the drives hardware or a large amount of sectors have gone bad etc. Heck there might even be something wrong with the m.2 connection. If you don't have much you care about losing on your storage drive I think that would be the definition of a spare drive. If it does not work on that then we can rule out the m.2 . However the fact that it is freezing on your live boots it kind of concerning as an error with the drive shouldn't cause a total crash but you have seemed to replace aside from the drives so I would have a hard time seeing it be another problem.

[Juggernaught]

For this problem I changed/replaced :   

• SSD/M.2
• RAM
• CPU
• 4 MSI Motherboards RMAed

Nothing Fixed it and I finally got fed up with MSI and their Refurbished RMAs.  I purchased a new ASUS Sabertooth and voila works like a charm. So 4 motherboards were crap that MSI sent to me...I have yet to call them and let them know this.  Trying to figure out how I can get my money back...probably not even possible.