03-02-2016, 05:52 PM
Well, after many, many weeks I've finally solved this problem. My problems with encoding were just the tip of an iceberg; as it turns out, Amazon had sent me the wrong socket CPU. They sent me a LGA14C socket processor instead of the LGA1151 socket that was advertised, that I bought, and was slapped on the goddamn box about 5 times. I only figured it out because I was looking through Intel's warranty stuff because I thought the processor was just broken, and it listed my CPU as a LGA14C processor when I entered the FPO number. I sent a sternly worded email to Amazon and they're sending me a new one for free, even though I bought well over a month ago. So that's nice.