$250 and a day later, new board in, exact same behavior. Crashes at the exact same spot.
I have the corsair h100, is that the one damaging pins? Seems really unlikely that i would trash the pins the exact same way 2x...but I am lucky like that I guess.
Was really hoping the new board would do the trick.
Downclocklng the memory led to the same result. (this time system thread exception not handled.)
I tried each one of the 4 dimms one at a time and got the exact same results each time.
At this point, I feel like I either damaged the pins again, or its the processor.
I really feel like I am missing something simple...Not sure I want to spend another 350 troubleshooting this, but at this point I feel like I have no other options.