
The chip is not overclocked and the motherboard, Gigabyte Z77-DS3H has no facility for changing processor Vcore manually (This is not fixable with a BIOS update). With this issue people normally suggest upping your core voltage or reducing your overclock. Reset the BIOS and pulled the CMOS but nada.

ran a memtest on the sticks and they're both fine. I tried running with 1 stick of ram, tried reseating both sticks, fiddled all the power connections to the mobo, booted without GPU (GTX 660) etc.

Another on Windows 10 and one of Linux, both freeze. It's only made it to a blue screen once and the error was CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT.įirst thing I did was try two completely different boot drives. Only problem is it probably only lasts 5 minutes max before it completely freezes. Turned on okay, restarted a few times and managed to log in. Dusted off a friends PC from 2012 yesterday to see if it still worked.
