i9 14900KF weird core behaviour and program crashes.

[xDontStarve]

Hello, I've purchased a 14900KF back in december, it was working well up to a few weeks ago, it started with Riot's Vanguard drivers causing BSOD, then I went and installed Win11 fresh from 0 to my drive and stopped playing Riot games, it went well for a bit and a few months later my PC is acting up again.

Problems I'm having:

* First I noticed that for whatever reason windows will not let me execute SFC / SCANNOW in normal mode, it will only execute in safe mode. The error message is "Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation."

* Sometimes, when creating windows live media with microsoft's tool, i get the error code "windows installation ran into an unexpected error 0x80070057 - 0x40031"

* When I run multicore tests in Cinebench R23, it doesn't crash, but when I run Single core, it crashes in less than a minute, weirdly enough, I observed that my P-core 4 and 5 goes up to 60.0x performance ratio, while the rest only goes up to 57x. I cannot modify these values as I am using a B board

* Then I tried reinstalling windows again from a live USB, but the process will crash and cause a restart when I go past the Accept terms page (where I should be seeing drives, SSDs, etc). This is not SSD issue, because I tried going to install with no SSD / Drives attached and it still would crash at that stage of the process. This does not happen using the Windows live USB in another PC, the process would go through smoothly.

* Another issue I've been seeing is web browser TAB crashes (mozilla and chrome, both) randomly during Idle sessions, one tab at a time

* Weirdly enough, when I try to install NVIDIA drivers, the installation .exe will crash with a "7-Zip: CRC Error" or "7-Zip: Data Error" randomly, I've managed to get it past the loading part but then it will crash during installation. I've only had success using windows update to install my NVIDIA drivers. Note: I do have 7-zip installed in my PC, and reinstalling it does not help. I've tried using DDU as well, to no avail.

* When I first installed windows 11, office installer would give a disk space error, even though I have plenty

* Sometimes, when I boot up my PC, it would cause a BSOD right before logging in, I've collected a few BSOD messages:

- kmode_exception_not_handled (most often BSOD i've been getting)

- KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE , DRIVER_OVERRAN_STACK_BUFFER (this one only appeared once, due to NVIDIA drivers I believe, now it isnt appearing anymore)I suspect that this is a certain instruction set that is causing my CPU to crash (something  that windows installation, SFC, Nvidia app installer and browsers use), because my PC is otherwise stable in gaming sessions.

- SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION, When I run Cinebench in single core, this BSOD appears (sometimes Cinebench crashes, sometimes this BSOD appears).

I've tested using a different RAM Kit (was using Patriot Venom and now Kingston Fury Beast) and tested different SSD's (even tested booting to the live USB with NO storage attached to my PC, it still crashed!), and of course I also tried creating different windows live USB from different ISO Images and from Microsoft's media creation helper, also using different USB drives, ports, etc.

The only other components I haven't swapped to test are the GPU, CPU, Motherboard and PSU.

Does anyone face the same issues? Can anyone provide extra steps to debug this?

System specs:
14900KF Using Latest BIOS from asus and PL1 125W PL2 253W & 307A (intel defaults applies in bios)

Asus B760-i Wifi -> Using BIOS 1805 with microcode 0x1b and using all intel defaults from this image:

32GB (2 x 16GB) Patriot Viper Venom (tried with XMP I On and off from Asus Ez mode), now running 4800MT/s

Samsung 990 PRO 2TB, Crucial P5 Plus 1TB, Sandisk SSD Plus SATA 2"5 1TB

NZXT Kraken 280mm AIO

NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super (Gigabyte Windforce OC)

Corsair SF750 SFX power supply

*Note: I've ran intel's processor diagnostic tool, reporting no errors, ran Cibenebench for hours with no error (score is about 36k in CB R23), ran mem86 test from live USB 5h+ with no errors, ran OOCT CPU + MEM test with no errors for 5h+

Today I'm getting a new pair of RAM to test again, maybe both of my previous sets are bad.

[jbruceyu]

The "Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation" error typically happens due to file corruption or system issues. Since you mentioned it only works in Safe Mode, it’s a good sign that your system may have some underlying issues that Safe Mode can bypass. 

Try these steps:

Run DISM Commands:

• Open Command Prompt as Administrator.
• Type: DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
• Once complete, run: sfc /scannow

Since the installation crashes during the Accept Terms stage, it might be a deeper system-level issue, possibly linked to hardware like the motherboard. 

1. Update BIOS and drivers for the motherboard, GPU, and chipset.
2. Run DISM and SFC to fix any Windows system file corruption.
3. Test RAM and CPU for errors.
4. Check system logs in Event Viewer to identify specific driver-related crashes.

if persists, proceed create ticket number to Intel Support

[AlHill]

@jbruceyu   "if persists, proceed create ticket number to Intel Support"

Is that not why the Op posted here in the first place?  I am sure he can ask chatgpt the same as you.

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[W10 is this generation's XP]

[xDontStarve]

Hello, I've come to a "fix" that requires setting performance core ratios to sync all cores and set to 55.0x.

However, this causes a performance drop, so I issued a RMA, the processor passes all intel processor diagnostic tests, I hope they take it anyways because it fails during idle jobs, not gaming / testing / benchmarking.