This is a long winded post, but after all this time being at my wit's end and doing a lot of my own troubleshooting, I have no option but hope that someone here can help me.
I've battled with my custom build PC for the last 6 months with constant failures of my hard drives and other hardware failures. It ran great with no hiccups for a little over a year, then I started running into freezing problems and not being able to boot. My asus crosshair 6 has a q code screen on it and it lead me to a CPU failure, so I had to RMA my Ryzen 7 1800x. My problems subsided for a while.
A few weeks later, my pc couldn't boot anymore. I eventually figured out after a lot of troubleshooting that I could get it to boot when the secondary hard drive was disconnected, so I stopped using it. I would have to boot between 2 and 6 times generally to get the pc to successfully boot, as more often than not it would freeze with a black screen with the cursor at the top left corner, or freeze at the logon screen, or right as the pc booted into the desktop. If I used sleep instead of shutting the pc down, it would usually start up the first 2 tries, so it wasn't a huge deal.
Today, I purchased forza horizon 4 for 60 dollars, but the Microsoft store wouldn't let me install it because I had pending updates. A few times a week I would see a blue screen on boot saying "unable to install updates. Undoing changes." I fought with forums and videos trying to get updates to work, and eventually I just tried to reinstall the OS and keep my files. It began freezing 100% of the time before I could get past the logon screen, so I did a full OS installation using a flash drive with W10. It boots to the setup where it asks me what internet connection to use, but the moment I highlight anything it freezes indefinitely. I tried two other hard drives on windows 7, and they also freeze before they fully boot.
I have done mem test86, the cpu is freshly RMAd, I've tried changing ram slots, flashing my bios, reseating my CPU, unplugging extra USB ports, and now I feel that it has to be my motherboard. The q code it reads now is 24, which as far as I'm aware isn't anything significant.
Asus crosshair hero 6
G.skill Trident Z ddr4 ram
Ryzen 7 1800x
I've battled with my custom build PC for the last 6 months with constant failures of my hard drives and other hardware failures. It ran great with no hiccups for a little over a year, then I started running into freezing problems and not being able to boot. My asus crosshair 6 has a q code screen on it and it lead me to a CPU failure, so I had to RMA my Ryzen 7 1800x. My problems subsided for a while.
A few weeks later, my pc couldn't boot anymore. I eventually figured out after a lot of troubleshooting that I could get it to boot when the secondary hard drive was disconnected, so I stopped using it. I would have to boot between 2 and 6 times generally to get the pc to successfully boot, as more often than not it would freeze with a black screen with the cursor at the top left corner, or freeze at the logon screen, or right as the pc booted into the desktop. If I used sleep instead of shutting the pc down, it would usually start up the first 2 tries, so it wasn't a huge deal.
Today, I purchased forza horizon 4 for 60 dollars, but the Microsoft store wouldn't let me install it because I had pending updates. A few times a week I would see a blue screen on boot saying "unable to install updates. Undoing changes." I fought with forums and videos trying to get updates to work, and eventually I just tried to reinstall the OS and keep my files. It began freezing 100% of the time before I could get past the logon screen, so I did a full OS installation using a flash drive with W10. It boots to the setup where it asks me what internet connection to use, but the moment I highlight anything it freezes indefinitely. I tried two other hard drives on windows 7, and they also freeze before they fully boot.
I have done mem test86, the cpu is freshly RMAd, I've tried changing ram slots, flashing my bios, reseating my CPU, unplugging extra USB ports, and now I feel that it has to be my motherboard. The q code it reads now is 24, which as far as I'm aware isn't anything significant.
Asus crosshair hero 6
G.skill Trident Z ddr4 ram
Ryzen 7 1800x