various stability/performance issues, controller failures, driver failures and ID stuttering after new psu/video card install

vanilladelic

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onboard audio controller is broken, onboard video controller is broken, significantly slower startup and program start times, and rampant mouse/keyboard stuttering especially during games or multiple programs running. occasionally i get an error that my video driver "stopped responding and has recovered". more often than that, my screen switches to VGA then back to DVI.

this all started after installing new antec hcg 900w and a pair of evga gtx 970's

im guessing that this has something to do with the psu, but i have no idea where to continue. after installing and reinstalling motherboard drivers, flashing the bios, changing the onboard audio to on instead of auto, reinstalling and rolling back nvidia drivers, shutting off SLI, etc, nothing seems to change.

setup

mobo: gigabyte ga-z77x-ud3h
i7-3770
16gb ram
"lol-slow" HDD
evga 970 2xSLI
HCG-900 psu
 

vanilladelic

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i did indeed, however it doesnt appear to have solved anything... maybe the damage is done? tried old cards and yet i still have device errors. I will wipe asap and will let know if it helps.

still, does anyone have a hunch about what is wrong? is my board blowin chunks or what?