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Asus ROG Maximus VIII Hero Alpha - Random Restarts

BillyR23
Level 7
I recently built a new Skylake system with the following specs however I have issues of random reboots during games and just web browsing in Windows.

Here are the Specs - I am using my old 960 as I am waiting for the 1080 or 1070



Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor
Corsair H115i 104.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Asus ROG MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (have also tried Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB (4x8gb) DRR4-3000)
Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card
Corsair 760T White V2 ATX Full Tower Case
Corsair 860W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

I have reformatted my M.2 3 times. Flashed Bios to 1701. Tried all new parts - new memory, motherboard, processor, power supply all giving the same issue

The first processor I had the stock voltage was running at 1.328 Volts - The Second Processor runs at 1.24
Regardless if the XMP profile is on or not the machine will still reboot - I have even put the memory voltage up to 1.38v

Any help would be greatly appreciated
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thomas_yiu wrote:
I saw the A2/A0 code than reboot, which is related to drive. Did you ever replace 950 Pro? remove M.2 and see if reboot is gone?


Actually i ended up picking up a 6800k and the asus x99 strix motherboard. I have had 0 issues with random reboots since I decided to return the skylake processor and motherboard since the return window was starting to close.