Mystery I can't solve. Can you?

jsilverthorn

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I've recently upgraded my system with a new gtx 750 ti (worked fine). Everything seems to work fine until i upgraded my cpu from an amd apu (dual core) to Athlon x4 860k and installed 1 extra 4 gb ram. That's when the problems started.
First had to reinstall drivers, completely erased my ethernet drivers along with gtx 750 ti drivers, reinstalled and reboot.
After reboot it got stuck on mobo splash with green dots/dashes across top part of screen (1 inch worth of top of screen). took out a stick of ram and reboot.
Next booted fine went into windows fired up a game, after about 5 mins pc completely froze and had to hard restart.
After thsi restart kept getting video post beep (1 long 2 short) kept restarting bout 10 times.
Next got back into windows ran fine until i updated java and ran can u run it auto detection, froze pc again.
Restart # watever now got stuck on select os to boot (found it was a lose sata cable (FIXED))
Changed cpu back to apu and took out gtx 750 ti. Now typing this here. Any advice as to what may have caused all that (Nothing is faulty everything works fine)

Forgot to mention during all this my USB ports all stopped but when i reverted back to apu w/out gpu they worked fine.

The hardware i'm not changing is:
motherboard- MSI a58m-e33
Hard drive- SSD with windows 7, 1 Tb hdd for storage
PSU- 450 Watt rosewell
 
Solution
Everything seems to work fine until i upgraded my cpu from an amd apu (dual core) to Athlon x4 860k and installed 1 extra 4 gb ram.
I recommend to check the BIOS version first, I guess you may own the pc over year ago, because the MB need the BIOS 32.5 version at least. If your MB doesn't have it you need update the BIOS first, then switch the cpu to the 860k.
CPU support list http://www.msi.com/support/mb/A58ME33.html#support-cpu

If you have the newer version BIOS, try take out the newer 4gb ram, clear the CMOS by the jumper, and reboot the PC.
Everything seems to work fine until i upgraded my cpu from an amd apu (dual core) to Athlon x4 860k and installed 1 extra 4 gb ram.
I recommend to check the BIOS version first, I guess you may own the pc over year ago, because the MB need the BIOS 32.5 version at least. If your MB doesn't have it you need update the BIOS first, then switch the cpu to the 860k.
CPU support list http://www.msi.com/support/mb/A58ME33.html#support-cpu

If you have the newer version BIOS, try take out the newer 4gb ram, clear the CMOS by the jumper, and reboot the PC.
 
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