This weird, cheap Erying motherboard/CPU from Ali Express kept crashing. Here's how I fixed it.
Channel: Jerry Travis Smith
Date: 2023-03-22

🚨🚨🚨  Major Update! Using this motherboard with only the integrated Intel graphics IS possible! https://youtu.be/zc_-TAtnqSM 🚨🚨🚨

Thanks to @CraftComputing's recommendation, I bought this wild Erying motherboard from Ali Express with a mobile i9 engineering sample CPU soldered the the board. [ https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804825211367.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.10.3d3418025Behlo&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt&_randl_shipto=US ]

I'm going to use it for an upcoming sleeper build built in a Tandy 1000 SL case. I paired it with an Eyring 240Gb nVME drive, 16Gb of Eyring 2600MT/s RAM, and a 500 watt Thermaltake power supply I had laying around.

After the initial Windows install, it would either a) get stuck in a boot loop with no repair options fixing the situation or b) crash or blue screen shortly into the Out of Box Experience (OoBE) setup screens. The blue screen error was KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED.

Since kernel mode exceptions can be caused by many things, I started swapping hardware. After replacing the RAM and the nVME drive with no changes, I finally decided the install a GTX 1060 card I had laying around. After that, everything was fine. Contrary to what the Ali Express listing says, the integrated graphics on neither UEFI Windows nor "Legacy" Windows works correctly. At least in my case, I had to use a discrete graphics card to allow the system to work.

Table of Contents
1:19 The Erying ERYING DIY Gaming PC Motherboard Embed 11th Kit Core I9 11900H I9 11980HK CPU 0000 ES onboard
2:39 Installing the Erying RAM with the white heatsinks
4:12 The perfect amount of thermal paste
5:03 First power on with an old ATX power supply I had
5:59 Installing the nVME drive
7:45 Installing Windows 11
15:32 Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
18:00 The fix for the crashing and boot loop
21:10 The Tandy case for the sleeper build!