Computer Freezes navigating BIOS
I have read quite a bit of what you have written - I deal a lot of with hardware and personally, if this is me I would just do the following if in the same situation:
Unplug everything but the bare essentials (cables and hardware). Plug just graphics if no internal, cpu, one stick of known working memory, power, keyboard and video.
Update BIOS
If still problems, send back as faulty / RMA.
Sorry - you wrote a lot, if I missed something, please say.... If you are sure your memory is not the problem, It may be worth just replacing it now.
Lockups while in BIOS makes me lean towards an overheating issue or motherboard issue. Typically ram issues would reset in a reboot more than a lockup.
IMHO:
- Do a factory reset on all settings.
- go into the bios settings and directly to the power monitoring section, move the arrows around until it locks up, is any voltage/temperature look odd?
- Your link for the MB isnt working for me, but if there's more than 2 slots try different slots.
- Try running both sticks of ram in single channel mode instead of dual as Im assuming