Question PC freezes in Bios

Victor_Delta

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I have been getting random freezes with my new pc since the begining and now it started to freeze in the bios as well. Everything is set to factory settings, sent the pc to the repair shop twice and both times they said everything is fine. Any ideas what is causing this?

Edit to update:

Windows 11 (latest updated)
MB (new): Gigabyte z690 Aorus pro F8f
CPU (new): i5 12600kf
RAM (new): G.Skill Trident Z5 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6000, CL36 (F5-6000U3636E16GX2-TZ5K) no xmp (mb says it supports this ram, but gskill site doesn't have the mb on the qvl for this ram?)
GPU (new): Asus ROG Strix 3080 12gb OC
PSU (new): CORSAIR RM1000X (2021) Full Modular 80+Gold 1000W (CP-9020201-EU)
SSD (new): SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus 500GB, M.2 NVMe (OS)
SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus 1TB, M.2 NVMe
WD Blue HDD 2TB


Things I tried:

-update bios (lastest is F8f)
-reset everything to factory setting (load optimized defaults, no xmp, no oc on cpu)
-update drivers (checked with Intel driver support, latest nvidia drivers, latest chipset firmware, intel serial I/O driver,...)
-reinstalled windows
-different (new) mouse and keyboard
-different wall socket
-new power strip
 
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Ralston18

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Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

Include PSU: make, model, wattage, age, condition (original to build, new, refurbished, used)?

Disk drive(s): make, model, capacity, how full?

Power down, unplug, open the case.

Clean out dust and debris.

Verify by sight and feel that all connectors, cards, RAM, and jumpers are fully and firmly in place.

Hopefully something is just creeping loose and once that something is re-seated the pc will become stable again.
 

Victor_Delta

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So I tore down the pc, took out everything except the actual motherboard from the case, even reseated the cpu and checked for bent pins, reassembled it double checking everything is on right and tight. I boot to the bios and I can still replicate the freeze like in the video above. So is my motherboard bad? I could try to downgrade the bios from F8f (latest) to F7 i guess.
 

Victor_Delta

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After disassembling and reassembling, reinstalling windows and updating everything I can think of:

- First day everything runs fine, goes to sleep when idle, wakes up fine, browsing and watching videos, played Doom for like 30 minutes, PC runs perfectly, temps are great.

- Second day... PC freezes shortly after loading into Windows...

I honestly have no idea what is going on.
 

Colif

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Sorry, I didn't look back in here after mentioning video status. didn't look at question.

RAM (new): G.Skill Trident Z5 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6000, CL36 (F5-6000U3636E16GX2-TZ5K) no xmp (mb says it supports this ram, but gskill site doesn't have the mb on the qvl for this ram?)

it should be okay if its been tested by mb maker
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

have you tried reflashing bios over itself to see if that fixes the freeze