Boot looping and more issues on Windows 10, new rig.

darkslayer062 · 18 Dec 2017 at 21:39

Recently my dad and I built a new computer, which has been working perfectly fine for months, until today when it crashed to a BSOD while I was playing Black Ops III.
Upon restarting, my computer became stuck in a boot loop, giving the following different errors when rebooting each time (and one or two more I may have forgotten);
UNEXPECTED KERNEL MODE TRAP
SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED
MEMORY MANAGEMENT
IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL
KERNEL SECURITY CHECK FAILURE
KMODE EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED

I tried using my dad's PC to create a USB boot drive to repair windows, but upon switching the USB to the primary boot drive, the boot loop still occurs. What's weirder, is that the boot loop still occurs even when the HDD is unplugged from the computer leaving just my boot drive - which confused me because surely there can be no problem with windows if I'm only using a freshly installed windows media tool with no HDD plugged in?
We tried checking all connections on the computer, finding no connection issues, and when we looked on the internet all the fixes that we found either required you to be able to start windows in the first place or use a media tool, which we cannot seem to be able to use because it still blue screens.

Any help would be extremely appreciated, as my friend, my dad and me are all lost for ideas because we don't understand how the errors are occurring even without a windows installation.

Here's my spec and my external hardware in case it helps;
MSI Z270 SLI PLUS
i5 7600k
GTX 1060 6GB
16GB 3000MHz DDR4 RAM
1TB SATA HDD
2TB Seagate Barracuda External HDD
Razer Blackwidow Chroma
Logitech G502
Acer Predator GN246HLBBID 24"

Thanks in advance.

darkslayer062 · 18 Dec 2017 at 22:24

Thanks for the replies so quickly.
I've already tried running with all USBs disconnected (sorry I didn't mention it) and the PC still failed to load. As for overclocks, I tried turning them off and that also had no effect .
The cooling is working as it should, the CPU is at about 50-55 degrees average. I don't have a different PSU to test with as this is the only tower in my house.
I'll test to see if it's a RAM issue and then I'll get back to you.

darkslayer062 · 18 Dec 2017 at 22:34

The RAM switching didn't work, still BSODs. I tried every slot (except 1 because my cooler blocks it). I did get a different BSOD error though which mentioned pagefile (I didn't catch the whole thing).

darkslayer062 · 18 Dec 2017 at 22:34

I'll try removing my GPU.

darkslayer062 · 18 Dec 2017 at 22:46

I don't feel good about removing my GPU without my dad after trying, and he's asleep now so I'll have to give that a try tomorrow. ED209 that was the error I got when I switched the RAM around, yes. Unfortunately I don't have any DDR4 RAM spare to try.

darkslayer062 · 18 Dec 2017 at 22:57

Thanks for all your responses so far - I'm going to head to bed and try and calm myself a bit (I'm very anxious about this because that PC was expensive and there is sensitive stuff on that HDD). I'll pop back tomorrow after school as I'll be putting all my effort into fixing this tomorrow.

darkslayer062 · 19 Dec 2017 at 15:30

I just took out the GPU, and plugged my DVI into the motherboard, and I had no other devices plugged in. No success, it still crashed.

darkslayer062 · 19 Dec 2017 at 20:06

For some reason, my computer has started turning on and it isn't turning off on its own so I assume there's no BSOD, however none of the inputs/outputs work so I can't actually see or interact with anything.

darkslayer062 · 19 Dec 2017 at 21:01

My keyboard doesn't get any power so I can't do anything.

darkslayer062 · 24 Dec 2017 at 16:49

Thanks for all the help, we've managed to narrow it down to a faulty board or a faulty CPU (my dad's friend came round to look at it because he's good with computers). We're going to return the board and get a replacement and hope that works, since a CPU failure is much less likely.