[SOLVED] BSoD while trying to install Windows 10

Jun 23, 2020
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So, a while back I built a system for a friend. Everything was fine for a while, but one day she started getting BSoDs every few minutes (various stopcodes, mostly relating to driver or memory errors). I had her try driver updates, rolling back to older drivers, re-seating the memory and graphics card, and several clean installs of Windows. Finally, I gave up and figured it was something wrong with the drive Windows was installed on (I've had a similar thing happen to me where windows just refused to work on one of my drives after an update). I sent her a new SSD and went through yet another fresh Windows install, only to have it BSoD twice during the installation process. I'm at a loss for what to do from here. Any help would be much appreciated.

System specs are as follows:
Ryzen 5 1600
Asrock B450m Pro4
Patriot Viper Blackout Memory @ 3000 MHz
EVGA GTX 1060 6GB SSC
EVGA 500W 80+ PSU
Inland Professional 120GB SSD - New Drive
Inland Professional 256GB SSD - Old Drive
 
Solution
1st thought if you bsod during install is check ram

Try running memtest86 on each of your ram sticks, one stick at a time, up to 4 passes. Only error count you want is 0, any higher could be cause of the BSOD. Remove/replace ram sticks with errors. Memtest is created as a bootable USB so that you don’t need windows to run it
1st thought if you bsod during install is check ram

Try running memtest86 on each of your ram sticks, one stick at a time, up to 4 passes. Only error count you want is 0, any higher could be cause of the BSOD. Remove/replace ram sticks with errors. Memtest is created as a bootable USB so that you don’t need windows to run it
 
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