I have been tearing my hair out for 24 hours now and Im ready to cry.
I will try to give you as much info as possible.
I purchased a brand new ASUS Maximus V Formula Motherboard, as well as a brand new i7 3770k Processor and Corsair Vengeance 32 GB package ( 4 x 8 ) 1866mhz Ram
I put this system together with an OCZ Agility III 120 GB SSD, OCZ 1000W 80+ Gold PSU, Corsair H60 Liquid Cooler, Galaxy Gtx 580, in a HAF Advanced Full tower.
Right from setup in the bios I tried setting XMP for my XMP compatible memory, so I could run at 1866mhz. The pc instantly rebooted giving me a message saying that the overclock failed, please press F1 yadda yadda. I kept CPU on stock clock, and I ended up having to use stock settings for my ram, which meant I could run all 4 sticks, but at 1333mhz. Not a big deal to me.
I fresh installed windows 7, got all of my drivers/utilities installed, and started gaming hard for about 4 or 5 hours.
All of a sudden, in the middle of playing a game, I got a BSOD.
I attempted to reboot the PC and continue windows normally. As soon as the windows loading screen appeared, I blue screen again. When I attempted to boot in Safe mode, blue screen in the same spot. WHen I try to boot my windows 7 recovery disk, I BSOD as soon as the files load.
Every ONCE in a while, if I boot in safe mode, I actually make it fully into windows, where it tells me how windows has recovered from an error, it also provides two log file locations, however I can never even locate them before my PC BSOD again.
ONCE in a while, if I boot windows normally, It will make it as far as the logon screen where I type my password, but BSOD as soon as I do.
If I try to run Memtest 86, My pc reboots immediately as the test starts.
I have tried everything I could find on google.
I have tried 1 stick of ram, 2 sticks of ram, in this slot, that slot. I have tried a different PCI video card, I have tried my GTX in a different PCI slot, I have tried 4 sticks of the Corsair Vengeance 1333mhz ( 4 x 4 ) 16gb (A completely different set of ram that worked just fine before). I have tried changing the sata port connecting my SSD to the mobo.
I have updated my BIOS to the latest version 0804.
I have tried using XMP with the 32GB ram set, profile 1.
I have tried manually changing DRAM voltage to 1.6, I have tried optimized defaults (F5)
I have tried changing my Sata from ACHI TO RAID AND IDE
Most common BSOD error I get is 0x000000124
Theres no way my memory can be bad, I know its not my Video card, and I know its not my PSU.
And like I said, every once in a while this thing will boot into windows safe mode, I see all my files there, obviously my graphics card is working cuz Im still getting a display.
I dont know what else to do from here. I have even tried cleaning my processor and watercooler heatsink and replacing the thermal heatsink paste. Please help 😞