Hi, I'm new to these forums and came here because I'm not sure what else to do right now. Within 5 seconds of it booting my pc either freezes, blue screens or restarts - then freezes on boot.
This has been happening for a while but now its gone completely over the
top. Up till earlier this week, I was still having these issues but
sometimes it would work for hours, even days without it happening; but
now I'm lucky if I even catch a glimpse of my desktop. Meaning of course I cant run any tests on my PC.
To recap, I've replaced my ram, my GPU, reinstalled windows like 7 times
(different versions), bought an SSD to install windows on, formatted my
HDD and updated my BIOS. In the past I had to replace my thermal paste
because my cpu was running up to 90 Celsius (not sure if that could of
killed it off slowly). I'm running out of options. I initially thought
it to be a windows problem since when I ran System file check like 80%
of the files were broken and could not be repaired (yay). But since its
been freezing and crashing on the boot screen and in my bios I think its more likely a hardware issue.
Blue screens include -
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
CACHE_MANAGER (that's a new one)
I attempted to disable the CPU cache to see if that was the issue but
could find the option in the bios, alongside it freezing constantly. So
the way I see it out of the 3 components I haven't replaced - Mobo, PSU
and CPU, one of them is the culprit. I just need help determining which
one since I'm hopeless with PC's (a friend helped my troubleshoot, but
he's stumped too). Please help me hold on to the little sanity I have
left. Thanks.
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-990-FXA UD3 rev.3
PSU- Corsair CX500
CPU - AMD FX6300
GPU - EVGA GTX960
RAM - Kingston hyperX