6 boots in a row I'm getting this

well if it was windows 10 activation is tied to a hardware ID anyway so yes.

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Huh, I thought it created windows.old when it was preparing to update, rather than on a fresh install.

I know I ran out od drive space before when it got in a loop failing to update, because not enough space for a whole second copy

I thought a fresh install did a ā€œquick formatā€?

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It will then too, and no need to quick format, just select the partition and go.

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My guess likely just a stupid windows update that failed half way,
trough borking the install.
Supposing that you have not updated your bios lately?

I updated my BIOS last time this happened. I sent it to warranty service, they found no issue with the motherboard, so I asked them to update the BIOS and they did. Still the issue persistsā€¦
Iā€™m willing to re-install windows completely from scratch, but Iā€™m not sure what good that will be since the entire system gets unresponsive and I may not be able to even press del to enter bios to choose boot from usbā€¦

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Hmm this is kinda interesting.
Because i was just reading trough this topic.

Maybe not related but still interesting somebody with a different board facing a similar symptom,
after updating the bios of the Gigabyte board.
Not sure if this might have anything to do with the recent ageesa updates maybe? :thinking:

Not sure but @John066 Ā“s issue looks pretty similar,
but only different brand of boards.
Maybe wendell might have an idea?
Because i couldnĀ“t really find any answer yet.

The interesting piece of information that i could gather from the other topic,
is that the backup bios of the Gigabyte board seems to work fine?
So there might be something related to the new Ageesa patches maybe?
Because the backup bios is likely an older version?

I think that this issue might lay a little bit deeper then just re-installing windowsā€¦ :thinking:

I doubt that. The last time this happened was last yearā€¦ They updated the bios again, last year. It kinda fixed itself the last time aroundā€¦

Just to keep the information flowingā€¦
Yesterday my PC just died while watching YouTube videos at one pointā€¦
Today I plugged in an installation USB drive with W10. I ran repair, the drive told me it canā€™t repair my system.

Hmm thats kinda oddā€¦
iĀ“m kinda curious what the core voltage was at the time it occured.
But of course that is now impossible to knowā€¦

A sudden switch off could of course lead to a currupted,
OS install.
IĀ“m also start doubting the state of your psu kinda,
since you had issues like this before.

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Itā€™s possible itā€™s his PSU but to be definitive logging the rail voltages and the load state of the system will give a better indication. If the voltage dips enough the system will pull current to compensate which sometimes is masked by OCP and thinking itā€™s a cpu or oc related issue

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I thought the same damn thingā€¦ Thatā€™s why I bought Seasonic Focus 650W Gold PSU the last timeā€¦ It didnā€™t help.

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okay then its not the psu. :slight_smile:
IĀ“m assuming you also already tried most other possible things,
like setting a fixed voltage and a medium llc level etc.
Slightly upping the soc voltage to like 1.1V ish to start.

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I ā€¦ Wellā€¦ Umā€¦ What?

Well which cpu do you have?

A 6 core Ryzen cpu should work fine on a fixed vcore of like 1.325V ish to 1.34V.
Not sure how your particular motherboard handles its cpu LLC profiles.
But often selecting level 3 is on the safe side with Asrock.
Vsoc something like 1.1V ish to start. (not higher then 1.2V)

But i forgot which particular cpu you have?

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1700Xā€¦

I think those are the files numbersā€¦

A 1700X might need a little bit more Vcore.
But itā€™s worth a try, otherwise something around the 1.36V ish,
then LLC level 2.

I donā€™t know what that is and where to look for itā€¦

Load line calibration.

Iā€™m kinda currious what your cpu would pull at stock stress testing.,
with everything on just auto setting.
I i think it should sit around the 1.42V ish mark normally for a 1700X

@PhaseLockedLoop what do you think for a 1700X on a Asrock board?

But that is something to try out, when Vcore isnā€™t adequate enough,
the system should basically just freeze / crash at stress testing.

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Mmm if heā€™s already at about 1.38 volts he shouldnā€™t push clocks past that. Itā€™s just not going to do so in a stable Manor. That said he can try level 4. I like level 3 because itā€™s flat and does not veer from my voltage settings. This is helpful because you know how far to push it.

Bumping the response to 500 khz is pretty sufficient to avoid stutters and micro droops.

Hereā€™s what he can do. He can manually OC by starting at stock and using the offset. Undervolt as much as possible. When stable undervolt at stock is found. Bump it up 2 ticks. Then start there moving the clock and voltages. This will let him find the minimum. There is no set and forget voltage. Every VRM and CPU combo differs in performance

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