Need help diagnosing what failed in my gaming PC. I was in a throwback mood so I booted up some Fallout 4 and was playing that, a few hours in, my computer randomly blue screened with some weird code. I waited about 5 minutes, it didn't reboot on it's own so I hard reset. It got back into windows and I had a few emails so I was reading them, and a new blue screen. Again random code, didn't reboot on it's own so i hard reset.
Now it's stuck in a cycle where it turns on and off in rapid succession 3 times then goes to the Ameritrend bios screen saying press F1 to enter setup. This takes me to the BIOS, and I can just exit the bios and the PC boots normally. Only to blue screen again some short time later. And the process repeats.
I've tried removing all ram by 1 stick, tried it in all 4 slots, took a good stick out of my girlfriend's computer. I've stripped out my sound card, I've swapped PCI-E ports for my video card... I've ran HW Monitors for voltage and temp increases incase of overheating, nothing.
It's always the same thing. Random blue screen, then a boot loop that eventually leads to the bios, where I boot normally.
The only thing I haven't tried is reinstalling windows, but i'd rather not do that because I have so much backing up to do, and it'll probably bluescreen just doing that.
Specs are in my forum signature (Full specs on my Mods Rig). I just really think this is the motherboard, and before I reach out to Asus to RMA it, just want a 2nd opinion from some of you.
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Figured it could be worth noting that when it's doing it's reboot loop, the post code is 6E...
Which the manual says is "System Agent DXE initialization (System Agent module specific)"
I have no clue what the heck that means and it seems nobody on google does either lol.
post edited by dwoodward - 2021/01/13 10:40:12