Hi All,
I have a weird problem with my system:
A few days ago I assembled my new mobo and cpu (Strix Z370-F and Intel Core i5-8600K) in my pc, after uninstalling some drivers and softwares for the Strix Z270-F and i7-7700K system I had before. The pc booted up normally, so I installed new softwares and drivers for these new components. At that point, everything worked properly.
After that, I decided to try overclocking the cpu: I tested it @5 GHz and it was stable with the core voltage at 1.3V, then I started pushing up the cpu to 5.2GHz at 1.39V but the system was unstable. So I slowed it down to 5.1GHz at 1.375V but it was unstable too.
After this last crash, the pc started crashing in loop on boot with a blue screen (everytime the error was different), so I loaded the default settings in the bios, but nothing changed.
I tried changing some settings in the bios like speedstep, multicore enhancement, turbo mode etc., and the only thing I noticed was that, with all of these settings disabled, windows managed to boot and work for some seconds, but it was unusable.
Then I changed the number of active cores, and discovered that the system is perfectly stable with only 2 active cores (I managed to overclock them @5.2GHz with the cache @4.5GHz at 1.33V, and it doesn't crash), but from 3 to 6 active cores windows crashes in loop on boot. I also tried make it boot in safe mode with default settings in the bios, but the system was unstable too.
I tried disassembling and rebuilding the whole pc, changed the ram and verified that all the cables were well-linked, but nothing changed.
Now I don't know what to do, and I hope you can help me.
Thanks in advance.