System issue please help

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I have the below system I built a few years ago which was working fine until Friday when it would not post just kept restarting after 20 seconds or so with no error beeps.

I have so far reset the CMOS by bridging the pins and by removing the battery for 10 mins. Have also replaced the battery.

I have tried each ram stick separately 1 by 1 with no post.

Reseated all PSU cables, GPU, CPU, SSD and HDD.

I have got hold of a stick of Crucial CT4G4DFS824A 4 GB (DDR4, 2400 MT/s, PC4-19200, SR x8, DIMM, 288-Pin) Memory to test with.

With this ram module the system posts but crashes on the windows loading screen.
I have tried to boot a windows 10 USB I created with the windows media creation tool it gets to a purple/blue screen and crashes.
I have also tried to boot a windows 10 repair disc and again this just crashes.

Am I right to assume that the corsair ram has died ?
should I suspect any other components ?

I am at a loss as to what to try next anyone have any ideas ?


Zotac GeForce GTX 980Ti AMP Extreme Edition 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-90505-10P)
GX-091-ZT

Intel i7-5930K 3.50GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75930K)
CP-548-IN

Samsung XP941 512GB M.2 PCI-e Gen2 SSD NAND based Solid State Drive (MZHPU512HCGL-00000)
HD-205-SA

Gigabyte X99-Gaming 5P Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
MB-515-GI

Phanteks Enthoo Primo Full Tower - BlackRed
CA-019-PT

SuperFlower Leadex Titanium 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Titanium" Power Supply - Black
CA-026-SF

Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M4B3200C16)
MY-432-CS

Pioneer BDR-209EBK 16x BDRW Multilayer 128GB retail
CD-086-PO

Seagate 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gbs 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST2000DM001)
HD-255-SE

Windows 10 pro 64bit
 
Could be the PSU. Try it with no SSD or HDD or DVD RW plugged in and see if you can get into the BIOS to check nothing has gone awry. Then still with no SSD or HDD/DVD RW boot to the USB and see how far you go. Only way to surefire test everything is to try them in another PC. Process of elimination is required. If you cant do that then you have to go down the expensive route of replacing each item.
 
The fact that when you use different RAM you got a different result is interesting.

Although, it would be very unlikely that all 3 ram modules are faulty. Bad ram can have that affect, I had very similar with my pc, turned out I had not firmly enough seated the ram.

My only advice would be to try and make sure (without breaking anything) that the ram is firmly in place, make sure the connections are free of dust.

Failing that, could be a fault with the PSU - but that fact you had a different result with different RAM could possibly suggest against that.

May be a motherboard issue, I think, that is what I would be leaning towards if all else fails.

Be good if you could get hold of another PSU though from someone just to test, doesn't have to be anything special just to boot the mobo/cpu/ram - would eliminate that at least.
 
I have just tried another PSU same issue none of my 4 sticks of ram will post in any slot but new stick will post. I am also still unable to boot the windows installer from DVD or USB.
I have however been able to hit the recovery screen after the pc reboots twice and from here boot into windows 10 in safe mode using either PSU.

I am given the error "A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed" Error code 0xc000000f

This relates to the windows boot manager and to fix it I need to be able to boot the installation media
 
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It's still wierd how the pc won't post at all with the old ram, it might be worth trying to boot the pc without any of the hard drives connected. If it still doesn't post, then could suggest that there is another issue and the BSOD code is a side affect of something else.
 
ok I have tried to boot the windows 10 installer on 3 different USB sticks they all work on my other systems but on this i hit a purple screen and just hang have also tried with 3 different HDD 1 SATA 3 mechanical, 840 evo SSD and the Samsung xp941 M.2 SSD.

I don't have another x99 motherboard or compatible CPU to try but I am guessing 1 of those to be the culprit >.<
 
Pedaars said:
ok I have tried to boot the windows 10 installer on 3 different USB sticks they all work on my other systems but on this i hit a purple screen and just hang have also tried with 3 different HDD 1 SATA 3 mechanical, 840 evo SSD and the Samsung xp941 M.2 SSD.

I don't have another x99 motherboard or compatible CPU to try but I am guessing 1 of those to be the culprit >.<
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Board under warranty ?
 
Quartz said:
Have you tried booting without the M2 drive installed?
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Yes I have tried it with 3 different HDD one by one a 1tb mechanical, 840 evo SSD and the Samsung xp941 M.2 SSD I have the same issues with not being able to load the windows 10 installer
 
Hmmmmm could be the motherboard then, kinda what I was thinking earlier. Could be CPU but very unlikely and they tend to BSOD a lot with plenty of warning, plus a CPU to just randomly fail without some serious abuse first is in my experience very unlikely.

Motherboards however are far less reliable. The fact you get a different result with different RAM was telling, suggests something on the motherboard was weak, some component capacitor or whatever on the bus somewhere. The problem you have is almost exactly what I had when my RAM wasn't 100% firmly seated. But provided it is, then it suggests that some connection or component on your board near you ram could be causing the same.
 
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