Question I think my CPU is causing my PC to boot loop

Aug 22, 2019
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So I made another thread explains how I thought either my motherboard or CPU was causing boot loops while I was installing Windows. I tried every other part with a different one, such as replacing my PSU with a similar one or swapping my ram with different kinds and getting the same results. I ended up thinking it was the motherboard so I returned it and got a new one. It didn’t reboot where it usually would during the windows installation, but a couple minutes later while windows it getting set up....boom. Reboots. It also flashes the BSOD for a fraction of a second, not enough time to tell what it even says. I’m really hoping it’s not the CPU causing these issues, that’ll be an expensive problem to fix.

Reasons also why I believe it’s the CPU is because I replaced it originally with my older i5-6500 as an upgrade, but started using the intel again for the time being so I can at least have a functioning computer, and it worked with no issues whatsoever.

My specs:
Ryzen 5 3600
MSI B450 tomahawk
One stick 16gb 2400 viper ram
Gtx 1060 6gb
Evga 500w PSU
128 gb SSD
1tb harddrive
 
Is the bios on your b450 flashed to accept the 3600?
I have the same motherboard and it can accept a simple usb flash if you didn't know.
I’m not sure if it’s the latest bios, but the box said it was Ryzen 3000 ready. Also to update, I did manage to get Windows 10 installed and up and running. And it’ll be fine if I don’t do anything on the home screen, but when I start opening programs of do anything like that, it’ll show the BSOD. The most frustrating part is that it won’t give me an error code or anything to go on, it’ll just say something along the lines of “your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’re just collecting some info and you can restart afterwards.” And I also turned off the feature where it’ll automatically reboot, so now it’s gone from rebooting to bluescreening on me
 
Bluescreens are logged in windows in Event Viewer so you can check exactly what happened if your computer will stay on long enough for you to check.
So I went to my event viewer and the two most common warnings I’m getting is event ID 10016 and 1014 and I’ve also gotten event ID 17.
10016 says it’s does not grant local launch permission for the COM server application
1014 says name resolution for the name wpad times out after none of the configured DNS servers responded
17 says a corrected hardware error has occurred with the component being the PCI express endpoint
 
Bluescreens are logged in windows in Event Viewer so you can check exactly what happened if your computer will stay on long enough for you to check.
I also got a critical error with event ID 41, being kernel power
“the system has rebooted without clearly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly”
And I got a regular error for event ID 161 which is called volmgr “dump file creation failed due to error during dump creation”
Also just got a blue screen that stated I had a DPC_watchdog_violation