phaZed
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- Location
- Richmond, VA
Gigabyte x570 Aorus Pro Wifi
AMD 5950x
64GB DDR4 3600
RTX 3090 FE
Sys drive: Samsung 980 Pro Gen4 1TB M.2 NVME
Looks like my Mobo (or CPU) died from one day to the next. It's been a perfect system with literally zero issues or bluescreens. Now, it boots and posts and tries to load windows and is succeeding every 3rd or 4th attempt.
I have reseated everything.. the CPU received a contact cleaner spray and two reseats (I have seen bad contact cause the fTPM/NewCPU error before). I have tried all 4 sticks of memory and 2 sticks of new memory - all channels, each by themselves. All speeds... including all the way down to 2400MHz - to 3600MHz. 1.2v an 1.35... makes no difference in operation.
I have removed all USB devices, hubs, USB headers from the board, RGB, etc. Same outcomes.
All extra drives removed (3 others) - and the SSD was checked on another system and reports good.
Symptom 1:
System will lock up or fail to boot to Windows every 3-4 boots. Each time it fails - it fails in a slightly different way (Full lock with spinning dots stopping - power button off)(Bluescreen complaining of watchdog timeout)(Bluescreen complaining of driver power state failure)
Sometimes, at POST I get the "New CPU installed, fTPM reset Yes or No - which is the 4th failure - when this happens, windows's next boot is guaranteed to fail.
Each of the failures are in the same order every time with the fTPM message sprinkled in every so often. Very repeatable.
Symptom 2:
The system is really unstable when the SSD is going idle! When Windows loads, if I immediately give the system a large copy task (100's of gigs) and copy those out to a "slow" 8TB spinner on SATA bus, the system will stay up with no issues, indefinitely! - full performance and everything. Weird. So I looked to turn off link power management - but it is already turned off - always has been. I tried new AMD drivers, old AMD drivers - BIOS update (Was only 2 months behind),etc... but I haven't changed anything that coincided with this problem.
So, if I boot and just let it sit there or doodle around with chrome - it locks up within 15-20 seconds after all background tasks have loaded.
If I boot it and immediately start a copy - I've had it up for 3 hours and successfully copied everything. It locks up exactly at the point of finishing (or if win throws up a prompt to overwrite, copy sys file, etc.)
Symptom 3:
I installed a completely new and different SSD - I can't install Windows - it locks up before it can even get to the first prompt.
System repair/Automatic repair will lock up if you're not fast enough to click through - again, while the bus is busy transferring data, it's happy. Once it stops for what feels like 200ms.. it's done.
So, got a new x570 Mobo on order. Hoping it's not the CPU.
AMD 5950x
64GB DDR4 3600
RTX 3090 FE
Sys drive: Samsung 980 Pro Gen4 1TB M.2 NVME
Looks like my Mobo (or CPU) died from one day to the next. It's been a perfect system with literally zero issues or bluescreens. Now, it boots and posts and tries to load windows and is succeeding every 3rd or 4th attempt.
I have reseated everything.. the CPU received a contact cleaner spray and two reseats (I have seen bad contact cause the fTPM/NewCPU error before). I have tried all 4 sticks of memory and 2 sticks of new memory - all channels, each by themselves. All speeds... including all the way down to 2400MHz - to 3600MHz. 1.2v an 1.35... makes no difference in operation.
I have removed all USB devices, hubs, USB headers from the board, RGB, etc. Same outcomes.
All extra drives removed (3 others) - and the SSD was checked on another system and reports good.
Symptom 1:
System will lock up or fail to boot to Windows every 3-4 boots. Each time it fails - it fails in a slightly different way (Full lock with spinning dots stopping - power button off)(Bluescreen complaining of watchdog timeout)(Bluescreen complaining of driver power state failure)
Sometimes, at POST I get the "New CPU installed, fTPM reset Yes or No - which is the 4th failure - when this happens, windows's next boot is guaranteed to fail.
Each of the failures are in the same order every time with the fTPM message sprinkled in every so often. Very repeatable.
Symptom 2:
The system is really unstable when the SSD is going idle! When Windows loads, if I immediately give the system a large copy task (100's of gigs) and copy those out to a "slow" 8TB spinner on SATA bus, the system will stay up with no issues, indefinitely! - full performance and everything. Weird. So I looked to turn off link power management - but it is already turned off - always has been. I tried new AMD drivers, old AMD drivers - BIOS update (Was only 2 months behind),etc... but I haven't changed anything that coincided with this problem.
So, if I boot and just let it sit there or doodle around with chrome - it locks up within 15-20 seconds after all background tasks have loaded.
If I boot it and immediately start a copy - I've had it up for 3 hours and successfully copied everything. It locks up exactly at the point of finishing (or if win throws up a prompt to overwrite, copy sys file, etc.)
Symptom 3:
I installed a completely new and different SSD - I can't install Windows - it locks up before it can even get to the first prompt.
System repair/Automatic repair will lock up if you're not fast enough to click through - again, while the bus is busy transferring data, it's happy. Once it stops for what feels like 200ms.. it's done.
So, got a new x570 Mobo on order. Hoping it's not the CPU.
