Bsod issue, I'm at a loss
Yesterday I got a ryzen 2600x, asrock b450 steel legend, and 16 GB of corsair veangence lpx 3200mhz ram. I replaced all of the parts and everything went well and windows installed and started but it blue screened whenever I tried to load into windows. So I reinstalled windows successfully after about 10 tries and it seemed to work until I started getting a different Bsod message of: clock_watchdog_timeout. I'm not applying any overclock to my cpu and am using default bios settings.
I saw some people say to update to the newest version of windows however I can't finish the download before my pc crashes again. Does anyone have experience with this issue or might now how to fix it?
Posted Jul 11, 2019, 7:32 AM UTC
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If you have XMP on the motherboard enabled, try disabling it. That being said, if you have issues with installing Windows, it's either bad install media (the files or the device they are on) or bad hardware in your computer (most likely hard drive, but could be anything.)
I haven't had an issue with windows as much as my computer just kept crashing while trying to Install WIndows. And I tried enabling and disabling xmp and using different speeds and trying ram sticks one by one in each slot. I startup my pc and after a few minutes it blue screens with the same message and it's always a different amount of time it takes to crash. I'm thinking it's a bad cpu but I'm trying to get everything updated first to try to avoid that but my pc crashes before I can can install much. I did get it to hold on to install the driver disk that came with the motherboard though and left it to install windows updates before I left for work but I'm sure it'll crash before it finishes
sounds like memory issues or incompatibility - try updated the BIOS on the motherboard, sometimes memory compatibility improves with a BIOS update.
I'm definitely going to update the bios because it's on an old version(kinda glad I didn't buy a 3600 because it wouldn't have worked). I'll give an update later today when I do that. My ideas are either the ram is unstable on the old bios or a problem with the cpu. Because in the bios, so idle, the cpu temp reads 51 celcius which seems high for idle and on an h60