Hey guys so I just bought a new CPU, Motherboard and RAM to replace my old setup. After installing the new parts I booted up windows and logged in fine but after a couple of minutes my PC would hard freeze and had to be shut down with the power button. At first I figured I could just boot up into my current windows and be good to go but then decided to do a reset since thats what most recommend to do, during the reset the PC froze again at around 80% after waiting a couple of hours for it all to reset. After rebooting back up my windows was reset but freezing still persisted with my new CPU setup. I swapped back to my old system to see if there was any problems and it has been working fine. I decided then to do a complete fresh install of windows so I disconnected my drive that has windows on it and attempted to install windows onto my other SSD which is now clean/empty, using a USB stick to install windows gets to some random % on the preallocating files after setting the partitions up and freezes again. Ive tried using each of my RAM sticks on their own and then back to 2 but to no avail, Ive also set the bios back to default settings just to be sure but this still hasnt solved it. I have gotten 2 BSOD's when installing windows after the PC has frozen which is the DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION, this happened twice out of several attempts to fresh install windows, the BSOD would also hard freeze once the error came up.
I feel like this is either a BIOS issue or I may have a defective part not 100% sure and would like some input or advice if anyone has any other solutions, my next step is to try do a bios update by flashing the bios but from further reading some say this can brick the mobo, if anyone has advice about this or if i should try it anything helps atm since I feel like my solutions are now limited.
Old system
CPU: i5 4670k
Mobo: Asus Z87-K
RAM: 8GB Gskill
GPU: MSI GTX 1070
PSU: Corsair RM 650
Storage: 1xWD Black 1TB, 2 Samsung 850 EVO 500GB
New system was only upgrading CPU, Mobo and RAM
CPU: i7 9700k
Motherboard: MSI MPG Z390 Pro Carbon
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB
I feel like this is either a BIOS issue or I may have a defective part not 100% sure and would like some input or advice if anyone has any other solutions, my next step is to try do a bios update by flashing the bios but from further reading some say this can brick the mobo, if anyone has advice about this or if i should try it anything helps atm since I feel like my solutions are now limited.
Old system
CPU: i5 4670k
Mobo: Asus Z87-K
RAM: 8GB Gskill
GPU: MSI GTX 1070
PSU: Corsair RM 650
Storage: 1xWD Black 1TB, 2 Samsung 850 EVO 500GB
New system was only upgrading CPU, Mobo and RAM
CPU: i7 9700k
Motherboard: MSI MPG Z390 Pro Carbon
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB