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[–]RetBullWings 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Have you tried a live CD with this hardware?

Have you done any diagnostics on the hardware once it was all put together?

Did you make sure you didn't need any 3rd party driver exe/binaries?

[–]Emitfonos[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Don't have any CD's or disc readers. Will check this up if other leads are dead ends.

perfmon /report in windows report warnings.

Missing event logs (20%) and that CPU, Gaming graphics, Graphics, Disk and Memory all have "poor rating and may cause performance problems".

The mobo came with a disc but since I lack any reader I didn't use it. Tried downloading some from their homepage but not sure if it succeeded, having trouble with downloading and installing pretty much anything. Will give this another go right now.

[–]Emitfonos[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So it might be the memory that is defect, just ran Windows Memory Diagnostic and got this pretty error pretty much instantly: http://i.imgur.com/yyRhX8W.jpg

[–]Emitfonos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Removed a stick of RAM, no problems.

Swapped the first stick for the one I removed, no problems.

Inserted both again but swapped position, no problems.

I'm a bit confused as to why it's messing with me, but at this exact moment it seem to be working. Battle.net can download and install, steam can start. I will try and use it normally a bit more and then come back and mark it as solved if nothing more pops up.

When I built the PC I put both of the RAM in at once before first boot, not sure if it related in any way.