Brand New Custom Made Computer - OS Random BSoDs and File Corruption

njpanella

Commendable
Jan 19, 2017
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Parts
Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon NITRO R9 Fury
RAM: Crucial 8 GB DDR4 CT8G4DFD8213
PSU: CORSAIR CXM series CX750M 750W
CPU: Intel i5 65000 3.2ghz
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 1TB
Motherboard: Asrock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming k6

MSConfig as of 1/19/17

Stopcodes Experienced
Critical Structure Corruption
Memory Management
System Service Exception
Bad Pool Header
Page Fault in Nonpaged Area

Description
This is my first custom computer and building it was fun but the getting the Operating System (windows 10) to work without crashing is a pain in my you know what... I have installed all the software for the motherboard and gpu including drivers and made sure that windows was up to date along with all the possible drivers. I have done a wipe and reinstall a bunch of times and even just factory resets of windows 10. I have tried sfc /scannow in the cmd and it gets to 90% it says it can't complete the operation. I have google chrome downloaded and installed but I can't use it because every tab cashes with "Aw Snap" pages (I have never had this happen to me before in this sort of persistent fashion). I have even tried relocating the two ram card to the other two slots (they are in the same colored slots, two sets of red slots, two sets of black slots).
 


Originally I got it from the Microsoft Partner Site, but after it wasn't working the first couple of times I contacted Windows Support and they gave me a "fresh copy" from their "in-house engineers"
 


So if it's not the OS then my first thought would probably point to the SSD. Do you have an extra hard drive or SSD lying around that you could plug into this system and install the OS on that?
 


Unfortunately I tried that as well. I had a Hitachi HDS721050CLA362 500gb HHD laying around from a old computer tower. I have it installed into my build just as extra storage, but when the SSD was failing I tried that one. Had the same exact issues and same BSoDs.

 


So it's not the OS and not the hard drive. I think the next step would be to test the RAM modules one by one. It's a painstaking process but right now it sounds like it could be a dead memory module.
 


So like you suggested, I ran the memtest86+ overnight and it has become clear that one or both of my cards are faulty.
It is interesting to see that the Crucial CT8G4DFD8213 that I had ordered for the z170 mobo is not listed as compatible on crucial's website but it IS listed on the Asrock Website.

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