- Mar 26, 2024
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I'm not sure if it's Windows related or Hardware related...
I recently upgraded my daughter's computer because it would randomly just freeze. The main components were 7 years old so I did a budget upgrade for her
Intel i5 11600K
Gigabyte Aorus Z590 Elite AX
Leftover/reused parts initially
Corsair DDR4 3000 (8gb x 4)
AMD RX580 GPU
Corsair 650 watt power supply
Upon putting it together I realized the motherboard power she had was only an 8 pin and the new motherboard needed the 8+4. I didn't want to have to buy another power supply so I put in an adapter to make it a 8+8.
Everything was assembled and all plugs are exactly where they need to be. It absolutely would not even boot to the gigabyte screen. After doing a little reading on the exact motherboard, apparently it has some slight issues with using four sticks of memory so I decided to test each stick individually on all four slots and verified that all the sticks of memory did work so I ended up just using two sticks to get everything up and running.
I could get Windows 10 installed and then within five to seven minutes it would freeze and I would get some blue screen error message and it would reboot. This happened multiple times so I started trading the memory sticks and that didn't help. I removed the AMD video card and ran right off the motherboard video and that also did not change the outcome. Eventually, it got to the point where it wouldn't even make it through an entire install of Windows before it would freeze up. And now it gets to the bio screen and I can go through everything and biles without issue including resetting the CMOS and all that but when I try to boot from the USB stick to install Windows it freezes there now and not go past it.
I went and bought another Gigabyte Aorus Z590 Elite AX motherboard and still the same issue.
I replaced the Corsair memory with a new kit of DDR4 3000 (16gb x 2).... same issue
I tried another M.2 drive and same issue. I've tried resetting the CMOS multiple times and booting with only 1 Memory stick..... same issue
I've been building computers for 20+ years and never had this much BS... I've ALWAYS had great luck with Gigabyte motherboards but is that the main issue here? The motherboard not liking my hardware?
Some of the errors.... they come up different each time...
Kmode exception not handled
Kernel security check failure
Driver IRQL not less or equal
Interrupt exception not handled
I recently upgraded my daughter's computer because it would randomly just freeze. The main components were 7 years old so I did a budget upgrade for her
Intel i5 11600K
Gigabyte Aorus Z590 Elite AX
Leftover/reused parts initially
Corsair DDR4 3000 (8gb x 4)
AMD RX580 GPU
Corsair 650 watt power supply
Upon putting it together I realized the motherboard power she had was only an 8 pin and the new motherboard needed the 8+4. I didn't want to have to buy another power supply so I put in an adapter to make it a 8+8.
Everything was assembled and all plugs are exactly where they need to be. It absolutely would not even boot to the gigabyte screen. After doing a little reading on the exact motherboard, apparently it has some slight issues with using four sticks of memory so I decided to test each stick individually on all four slots and verified that all the sticks of memory did work so I ended up just using two sticks to get everything up and running.
I could get Windows 10 installed and then within five to seven minutes it would freeze and I would get some blue screen error message and it would reboot. This happened multiple times so I started trading the memory sticks and that didn't help. I removed the AMD video card and ran right off the motherboard video and that also did not change the outcome. Eventually, it got to the point where it wouldn't even make it through an entire install of Windows before it would freeze up. And now it gets to the bio screen and I can go through everything and biles without issue including resetting the CMOS and all that but when I try to boot from the USB stick to install Windows it freezes there now and not go past it.
I went and bought another Gigabyte Aorus Z590 Elite AX motherboard and still the same issue.
I replaced the Corsair memory with a new kit of DDR4 3000 (16gb x 2).... same issue
I tried another M.2 drive and same issue. I've tried resetting the CMOS multiple times and booting with only 1 Memory stick..... same issue
I've been building computers for 20+ years and never had this much BS... I've ALWAYS had great luck with Gigabyte motherboards but is that the main issue here? The motherboard not liking my hardware?
Some of the errors.... they come up different each time...
Kmode exception not handled
Kernel security check failure
Driver IRQL not less or equal
Interrupt exception not handled