Possible component corruption

[Ophanim]

So build currently is 

I7-6700k (Currently not overclocked)

DeepCool Captain 240mm AIO Cooler

Asus Z-170A Motherboard (with most recent UEFI BIOS Version)

1x16GB Corsair Vengence 3000Mhz (Underclocked to 2133 for VR reasons.)

EVGA GTX 1080

650w EVGA Platinum Power Supply

120gb PNY boot SSD

525Gb Crucial SSD

Three 1TB HDD

One 600GB 2.5" HDD (pulled from laptop that was being scrapped.)

 

It all started a week ago, 7 days to be exact. I was playing fallout new vegas, I had disabled two of my processor cores to make the game run on two cores for stability reasons, and yes it does help. And I had left my previous overclock of 4.5 Ghz on the two cores.

My temps actually got lower when I dropped the two cores, so I didn't adjust the voltage any, (1.375v, 68c temps)

That night after I dropped the two cores and New Vegas was running great, I turned my pc off normally with windows shutdown, next day comes and I'm ready to play New Vegas again, BAM I load into a black screen. my PC resets itself 5 times and then it finally boots into a screen telling me my windows files have become corrupted.

I do all kinds of things, all my troubleshooting knowledge I put toward fixing my boot drive, Windows doesn't even detect my actual recovery file, in the end and 5 hours of phone calls from ASUS and Microsoft later. I have to wipe the drive and fresh install. Lost everything. However everything was working great until today. Same thing happens again, except instead of booting into a blue screen I boot into a black screen that says (Loading Windows Core Files). It too is telling me that I have some form of corrupted files in windows, However I could now esc out of this screen and boot into windows, but directly into a blue screen that says "Boot Device Failure"

Now with a windows media creation tool, I booted into my pc and did a system reset, and kept my files (it took about 10 times of booting before this option became available), This worked and I am typing this right now on my PC, but I need to know, What do I do now to stop this from happening? All the smart checks I have run on my boot drive have been very fast, and show no errors. Do I move my windows boot drive to my Crucial SSD, which will definitely be a headache, or do I continue with my main drive?

 

Any help will be much appreciated.

-Kyle

 

[Fasauceome]

if you got a boot device failure error, try to see if your drive is protected by warranty. Cloning your windows copy onto a fresh drive may help you out.