It's rare, but I had a bad AMD CPU last year. I swapped out everything including the MB and still had problems similar to yours. I got a new CPU with all the original components, and it's worked fine since.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 9:00 PM _ Winterlight <winterli...@outlook.com> wrote: > My Asus P9 X79WS with I7 has been giving me headaches for months. It > runs at default there is no overclock. It uses Crucial DDR3 Ballistic Sport > Ram and a EVGA 1070 video card. > It runs for a while and then with a reboot it hangs and won’t post. > Eventually it started shutting down on it’s own and, after I replaced the > CPU cooler it seemed to behave. It has been running good for the last > couple of weeks until yesterday’s MS windows 10 update. It does the update, > then reboots and stops at the ASUS logo and won’t go on and won’t go to > BIOS. > I have pulled everything but the 1070 video card out in an attempt to > discover the problem. RAM that checks out with Memtest… I have even swapped > the RAM out trying to see if was RAM but the RAM is good. I removed all > drives but no change. > I tried clearing the BIOS, and then a re-flash of the current BIOS. > Nothing helped. > Anybody go through anything like this or have any ideas or has this board > just gone bad. > > -- Michael Decker 202 603 5663 (mobile)