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

darkslayer062

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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.
 
Do you currently have any overclocks on the CPU\Ram at all? If so remove everything and put it back to defaults and see if the PC will boot.

try and run memtest and see if you check the ram for any issues, if one of the sticks is faulty remove and try and boot without it

If you don't want to run memtest, remove one stick of ram and see if it boots, if it fails change over the sticks and try again as this maybe a quicker test to try or maybe even re seating the memory may help if there is any contact issues

disconnect any external usb devices except keyboard and mouse as well.

seems to be a awful lot of different BSOD's.
 
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Sounds like some other problem (not software).

Tried going back to basics (single stick of ram, test them both individually in different slots!)
Different/low power gpu/integrated gfx
Checked cooling?
Unplugged any unnecessary hardware? (hell I've seen many usb devices causing issues like random BSOD's, try booting without any usb devices, even no kb/mouse)
Tried OS on a stick ( Linux or Hirens boot CD?)
Different psu?

Don't reinstall your hdd just yet, it's most probably not that (EDIT: definitely not that if it bsod's in setup without the hdd plugged in) !
 
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.
 
another thing you could try is to remove the 1060 and use the on board GPU (if it has one) as this should take a bit of the strain off the PSU if its that causing the problems
 
have you looked for any motherboard bios diagnostics ; or removed the gtx (as already suggested) just using internal gfx
 
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).
 
I would remove the cmos battery and the mains power cable and then hold down the power button for 30 seconds to clear any electric in the components. once done leave it unplugged from the mains for 30 mins or so to clear the bios and then put back in the cmos battery and mains cable and power it back up.

for the time being leave just keyboard and mouse connected, leave the 1060 out.

is the BSOD PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

Do you have any other DDR 4 ram you could try from another PC?
 
Or clear the CMOS normally with the jumper or,if the board has it, the button, and be done in less than half the time :p?

And DONT plug in the mouse and KB, try a completely bare PC... You can always do a neat shutdown with the acpi power button if it does boot normally. Or plug in mouse/kb in OS, no problem since USB... Only in ps2 times you really needed a reboot.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Hook the hdd to a different pc and backup your sensitive stuff first then.
Priorities :p, you have all newish hardware so probably all under warranty, simply diagnose by elimination and find the culprit and don't panic :p.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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