Good job getting memtest86 to work! yes, it does take a while to run. The benefit though, is that it can run outside of Windows and any other instability issues and give you good data on your memory to isolate that from contention.
I would generally be inclined to believe that if you ran the full suite of memtest86 (compared to our quick runs with memtest64 previously) that your memory is indeed fine.
RAVENEVGA
As a side note, when I exited MemTest86 and the computer booted to Windows,.....the keyboard was [once again] not working. I wonder if I got a faulty replacement board from EVGA.
Question for you: When you say faulty board, are you talking about the replacement motherboard? I still think your keyboard issues are possibly due to the keyboard itself, but I have this foggy recollection that you've tested another keyboard and had the same problem?
So, let's try to recap and make sure we're on the same page (let me know if any of this is incorrect and feel free to add details):
You've tried alternate:
-Motherboard
-Power supply
-CPU
-Memory, as well as running a full memtest86 run on your memory confirming no errors.
You continue to have freezing and rebooting with no BSOD, and you have multiple keyboards and now a headset that doesn't show up in windows sometimes.
Please confirm the following questions:
1. Did you update the BIOS on the new motherboard?
2. Did you re-install all the chipset drivers once you put in the new motherboard? This could be helpful, so I would just go through the list from the support download page and reinstall all the drivers there.
3. About the CPU socket pins. What do you mean?
After all that...I'm inclined to believe that there's something corrupt in your Windows installation, which brings us right back to Bee's suggestion that we tried to avoid, which is to reinstall Windows. The reason for this is that you've tested all the hardware other than the GPU. We followed every clue to what it pointed at, and none of them have panned out. So even though I don't have any evidence to say your Windows installation is corrupt, I don't currently have anything else to point at. I would start with a repair, which does a fresh install of Windows' files, but keeps your files and apps. You can find a tutorial of how to do that
here. The link they have for downloading the latest ISO of Windows 11 isn't quite right, so you can just go to the
main download page and scroll down to the ISO option. You may have to reinstall drivers after this.
As usual, I want to put in a note that I may not have thought of everything here, so if anybody else has more ideas for Raven to try, I don't want to limit them to only my suggestions. The only other piece of hardware we haven't touched is the GPU. The crashing isn't at load or any specific situation, it happens at random times and wouldn't explain all the USB connectivity issues. So I have no idea how that would cause this situation.