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Can anyone work out what is going on here:
The players in this story are three X99 motherboards, one 5820K CPU, 16GB Kingston RAM, Windows 8.1 on a DVD, Windows 10 on a flash drive, and a pair of SSDs.
Motherboard A seems to work OK with all of the above components installed into it and either copy of Windows.
Motherboard B crashes when on the 'installing devices' part of Windows installation using either copy of Windows and either SSD.
Motherboard C also crashes at 'installing devices' using either copy of Windows and either SSD.
What is causing this problem? I had thought motherboard B must be faulty, but motherboard C is doing exactly the same thing and it is unlikely they both have the same kind of fault. I then thought maybe the SSD was dying, but a second SSD does exactly the same thing. But it can't really be the CPU or the RAM because those both work fine on motherboard A.
I'm stumped.
The players in this story are three X99 motherboards, one 5820K CPU, 16GB Kingston RAM, Windows 8.1 on a DVD, Windows 10 on a flash drive, and a pair of SSDs.
Motherboard A seems to work OK with all of the above components installed into it and either copy of Windows.
Motherboard B crashes when on the 'installing devices' part of Windows installation using either copy of Windows and either SSD.
Motherboard C also crashes at 'installing devices' using either copy of Windows and either SSD.
What is causing this problem? I had thought motherboard B must be faulty, but motherboard C is doing exactly the same thing and it is unlikely they both have the same kind of fault. I then thought maybe the SSD was dying, but a second SSD does exactly the same thing. But it can't really be the CPU or the RAM because those both work fine on motherboard A.
I'm stumped.