My old motherboard, a very old MSI one, stopped working so a few weeks ago I bought a new one, the Asrock 970 Fatal1ty. However, things haven't really been going smooth. At all.

I've reinstalled windows, made sure every driver is updated, ran /sfc, windows memory diagnostic, chkdsk and have done countless other things I can't even remember, I'm sure it's hardware related at this point. I have reseated the RAM, made sure it's properly connected, even changed configuration to A1/A2 and back to A1/B1 (dual channel). Problems persist.

I've been getting frequent bluescreens ever since installing the motherboard (which beats not working at all but still, ;c). They most frequently occur while gaming, no matter what game it is, but they also strike at complete random. And sometimes just straight up freezes, no bluescreen, nothing. Freeze until I force a restart leaving no crash dump behind. The crashes I've been getting:

DRIVER_IRQL_LESS_OR_EQUAL (most frequent)

KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (second most frequent)

SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION (rare-ish)

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (only recently)

All crashes only really occur in the windows kernel, pointing to no specific driver at all.

I've installed every possible driver from Asrock's page on my motherboard, updated windows, done everything software related possible. My error is extremely similar to http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1656&PN=4&title=ar-fatal1ty-970-performance-ram-compatibility which led me to posting and registering on this forum. Almost scarily similar. Same processor, same motherboard... Only difference being that I use Corsair cm3x4ga1333c9n2 RAM - 1333MHz, 4GB while he uses the 1600MHz variant. I am not sure what fixed it on his end in the end...

I can provide some minidumps of the crash logs if needed but I doubt they would be of any use since I highly doubt that it is software related, since they occured when I cleanly installed this windows 10 already.

https://imgur.com/a/i1MAg CPU-Z screenshots

https://imgur.com/a/E9hHa BIOS screenshots (main is old, I've reseated to A1/B1 dual channel)

Help would be really appreciated, I've been trying to fix this for weeks, from microsoft support to tomshardware when I thought it was still driver/software related :(

The topic I found was just far, far too similar to be a coincidence, and you guys managed to fix his problems, so I have hope that I can find help here as well...

sooooooo

lets retrace and see whats the matter with the ram

have you tried installing thiaphoon burner free edition ?

this will give a very detailed report of the ram and its preferred settings

print this off and then go into the bios and check to see if the bios is auto  setting the correct values 

BOTH  at stock non xmp speeds and at xmp setting then run a test on both in windows

(my am3 system simply will not run stable with hyperX ram at the auto/stock setting. i actually have to manually adjust the timings and volts to make it stable)

i think this is where your problem is trace back to

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It's the bottom card, I have 2 of those in my system. They have no default XMP configuration in bios though.

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It seems to all be in line with what is optimal...

Thanks anyway though!

EDIT: Not fixed :(

I assume at this point that the motherboard is faulty?

Is anything off with this? What could/should I change and how?

I could not click the errors away fast enough. http://hcidesign.com/memtest/decayError.html/ver:6.0%20flag:6%20xz:0" rel="nofollow - http://hcidesign.com/memtest/decayError.html/ver:6.0%20flag:6%20xz:0

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This test was at 1333 with the 1600 rated sticks. I'm going to run some more tests...