So I've been trying to track down an issue with my pc.
I5 6600K
Z170 Pro Gaming mobo
16gb ddr4 2666mhz
5600xt
Evga supernova 550w gold
1x 500gb hdd 1x 240gb ssd 1x 500gb m.2
Seinhesier headset
Roccat kone xtd
Generic keyboard
Windows 10 pro (not activated)
Started off with an odd issue with hibernating the pc and in the morning it wouldn't wake up into the OS it would start from POST then fail to load hibernation. Restart was required. Failed to boot multiple times, unplugged ssd and replugged in after numerous hard resets, removing sticks of ram etc. Eventually got it to boot after doing a number of things and worked great for 2 days.
Left it on overnight to download a couple steam games and woke up to PC asleep. Turned on and failed to boot after atleast 50 tries. Always hanging when it comes to windows logo and loading screen, circles would stop moving, restart button wont work and caps lock num lock etc not working. Wouldn't boot in safe mode, hang at the same place. Again after doing all sorts of things it eventually booted and worked great for another 2 days, played rust all day on huge maps and everything worked flawlessly.
Then it hapopend AGAIN and I resorted to reinstalling windows as I thought maybe windows.old was playing games with the boot sequence somehow. Then it started giving me watchdog timeout error and machine check exception errors. I removed a stick of ram and it worked FLAWLESSLY. Restarts worked, sleeping the pc worked and hibernation worked. I thought that was it, ordered another stick of ram and thought I had defeated the problem.
Wake up in morning, same thing again.
Is this pointing towards a degraded cpu? Or possibly motherboard? The machine check exception makes me believe its a hardware fault? Really at wits end now
I5 6600K
Z170 Pro Gaming mobo
16gb ddr4 2666mhz
5600xt
Evga supernova 550w gold
1x 500gb hdd 1x 240gb ssd 1x 500gb m.2
Seinhesier headset
Roccat kone xtd
Generic keyboard
Windows 10 pro (not activated)
Started off with an odd issue with hibernating the pc and in the morning it wouldn't wake up into the OS it would start from POST then fail to load hibernation. Restart was required. Failed to boot multiple times, unplugged ssd and replugged in after numerous hard resets, removing sticks of ram etc. Eventually got it to boot after doing a number of things and worked great for 2 days.
Left it on overnight to download a couple steam games and woke up to PC asleep. Turned on and failed to boot after atleast 50 tries. Always hanging when it comes to windows logo and loading screen, circles would stop moving, restart button wont work and caps lock num lock etc not working. Wouldn't boot in safe mode, hang at the same place. Again after doing all sorts of things it eventually booted and worked great for another 2 days, played rust all day on huge maps and everything worked flawlessly.
Then it hapopend AGAIN and I resorted to reinstalling windows as I thought maybe windows.old was playing games with the boot sequence somehow. Then it started giving me watchdog timeout error and machine check exception errors. I removed a stick of ram and it worked FLAWLESSLY. Restarts worked, sleeping the pc worked and hibernation worked. I thought that was it, ordered another stick of ram and thought I had defeated the problem.
Wake up in morning, same thing again.
Is this pointing towards a degraded cpu? Or possibly motherboard? The machine check exception makes me believe its a hardware fault? Really at wits end now