cpu appears to have been the issue. i swapped it and it worked perfectly immediately on all the old hardware. so i think we're good here. thanks for the help!

motherboard swap didn't make a difference. i'm going to buy a new cpu and a small stick of DDR4, pair it with a known good psu, and see what happens when comparing boot cycles of each cpu/ram/gpu...

it won't even boot now. my wife was the one that took the memtest screen, and she said when she exited memtest it hung on the boot screen when it tried to restart. i tried it out when i came home and...

windows wasn't picking up a headset. however, since then, i reinstalled windows (after formatting the drive), reinstalled some games, and ran it with driver verifier on, and still got errors (see my...

ran for a while. got 10 passes total without error. what's next?

sorry, i was posting via mobile and couldn't figure out how to upload it. i'll do it from the desktop next time.

i'll set up memtest tonight and get results to you asap.

when i went to bed last night it had been running pubg for 8hrs without issue, but i woke up to a frozen bsod screen at 95% log generation (i disabled auto-restart after error). i restarted it a few...

build is as follows:
cpu: i5-7600k
gpu: msi 1070 quicksilver 8gb
mobo: z270 killer sli/ac
ram: GEiL evo x 2x8gb ddr4 3000
psu: evga g3 750w
ssd: samsung 960 m.2
hdd: toshiba p300
others:...

Windows was inactivated retail, so I am guessing it was for Office or something. I asked him but he supposedly didn't know.

I updated the BIOS and drivers but it was still happening, so I...

i built a computer for a friend about a year ago. he's not a power user - uses it to play pubg and use photoshop, and that's about it. he recently started getting machine check exception BSODs, so i...