Freezing and BSOD Skylake on new z270 mobo

Ok here is my update after a week or so since my last post.

After the Beta bios update my pc did stop the random crashes and freezing when just browsing but then the nvidia 376.33 display driver kept crashing and recovering. I resolved this by reverting back to stable driver 353.38 and everything finally stopped crashing.

Satisfied with this I have gamed for several hours every other day without issues at stock speeds. Then I overclocked the cpu to 4.5gHz at 1.30v and enabled the XMP profile on the ram and again everything has remained stable and without issue.

I still have the keyboard problem of not getting into the bios screen which I dont understand as to why a wired usb £60 mechanical keyboard, which worked fine with my old rig, wont work but my cheap £5 wired usb keyboard works just fine.

Thanks again for all the help and advice given and hope this has helped others on the forum.

boabject78 wrote: I'll get back to my usual pc routine for a few days and report back here regardless of the results.

Please, do.

Both your HAL errors are mostly caused by hardware or drivers. As I'm sure you Googled and discovered.

My guess, an unstable OC. Hence my needing to know if the errors cease when they are run at stock. The CX600 offers 46a on a single rail, good, so that shouldn't be at issue.

I'd still like you to place an aux fan blowing over the VRM section. It is a requirement when using a watercooler. When you place a pump over the CPU vs a HS/F there is now very little direct air flow to cool the components surrounding the CPU socket. VRMs mostly.  They heat up and all h*ell in many forms can wreak havoc.

My sig is what it is because of a limit of 200 characters, otherwise I'd have three more listed there.


Concerning any possible BIOS "bug' , rest assured that once a "fix' is included in a prior BIOS it is carried forward in the revisions following it. Not doing so would be a tremendously huge error on any company's oversight.

I'll now PM you for some info I need to share a BETA BIOS with you for the Z270 Gaming K6. That is if being BETA doesn't scare you away.







Edited by wardog - 31 Jan 2017 at 1:59am

boabject78 wrote: I take it nobody else here is using Skylake on the z270 platform?

I do, in fact. An i7-6700K/Z270 Gaming K6. Yet I'll back out of the thread. My apologizes.

Concerning the hal.dll.errors you're getting.

Return the CPU and memory back to stock and reply back that they have ceased appearing


But first. Seeings you water cool(H80i) I'd like for you to put an aux fan that blows over the motherboard mounted components surrounding the CPU socket. With more flow directed onto the VRMs to the left and above the socket itself.


After both, please reply back.