Asus Z170 Deluxe Freeze

Snaru88 · Sep 4, 2015

when i try install intel gigabit lan driver or some drivers, desktop freeze.

bios up-to-date
intel chipset driver up-to-date
AsMedia USB 3.1 driver up-to-date

Asus Z170 Deluxe
Intel i7 6700k Skylake
G.Skill Ripjaws V 16gb 3200mhz F4-3200C16-8GVK
Asus Nvidia Gtx 980 Strix
Samsung EVO 850 500 GB

Sorry for my bad english

cin19 · Sep 5, 2015

Which OS do you use? If you have the win10 that upgrading from win7/win8, may try to reinstall it.

i_pk_pjers_i · Sep 19, 2015

It's not his install of Windows that is bad, or his hardware, or anything like that. I get this issue too on a clean install of Windows 10. It's one of the drivers that has gone bad and causes freezing, particularly when the GPU is being used, like when playing a game (whole computer freezes) or when watching flash video the tab will freeze and eventually the whole browser will freeze, even with Hardware Acceleration off.

My suggestion is to just use all default drivers except for the latest Intel chipset driver, and wait for newer drivers that won't cause freezing.

I may go through and manually check every driver and see which one is the culprit. My money is on Intel RST, I've had freezing happen before because of it.

Edit: I downloaded the latest ethernet drive from here: http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-006120.htm and latest RST from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver and both seem stable so far.

Edit2: I installed ASMedia USB and AHCI drivers, everything is still fine.

Edit3: It wasn't RST or the Ethernet driver, it was the Wireless/Wi-Fi driver. No wonder why they call it a beta. Install any driver you want, just don't install the Wireless/Wi-Fi driver.

Edit4: It's still happening, it has to be one of the other drives. For now, only the Intel chipset driver is safe.

Edit5: After more testing, I have confirmed once and for all that it is the ASMedia USB drivers that cause the freezing. Everything else is okay.

ShockSA · Oct 26, 2015

i_pk_pjers_i :

It's not his install of Windows that is bad, or his hardware, or anything like that. I get this issue too on a clean install of Windows 10. It's one of the drivers that has gone bad and causes freezing, particularly when the GPU is being used, like when playing a game (whole computer freezes) or when watching flash video the tab will freeze and eventually the whole browser will freeze, even with Hardware Acceleration off.

My suggestion is to just use all default drivers except for the latest Intel chipset driver, and wait for newer drivers that won't cause freezing.

I may go through and manually check every driver and see which one is the culprit. My money is on Intel RST, I've had freezing happen before because of it.

Edit: I downloaded the latest ethernet drive from here: http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-006120.htm and latest RST from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver and both seem stable so far.

Edit2: I installed ASMedia USB and AHCI drivers, everything is still fine.

Edit3: It wasn't RST or the Ethernet driver, it was the Wireless/Wi-Fi driver. No wonder why they call it a beta. Install any driver you want, just don't install the Wireless/Wi-Fi driver.

Edit4: It's still happening, it has to be one of the other drives. For now, only the Intel chipset driver is safe.

Edit5: After more testing, I have confirmed once and for all that it is the ASMedia USB drivers that cause the freezing. Everything else is okay.

How did u manage to fix it? ASMedia is also my problem but i can't get rid of it on Windows 10 , is there any workaround?

i_pk_pjers_i · Nov 8, 2015

ShockSA :

i_pk_pjers_i :

How did u manage to fix it? ASMedia is also my problem but i can't get rid of it on Windows 10 , is there any workaround?

The fix is don't install the ASMedia USB driver's that ASUS provide. If you use the default Windows ones, they work fine.

Tortillaboi · Nov 26, 2015

Uninstalled the Asmedia USB driver, but it was re-installed by itself the day after. How do I rid of this shit completely?

lio25855 · Mar 1, 2016

Hey,

i have the same probleme on my Asus z170 deluxe and i can't instal the lan driver
on windows 8.1 and 10 and I FOUND the solution in don't use the automatic setup i use windows to instal this so how to :

go to manage and click on the contrôleur internet right click and select automatic update after dat you going select choose on my computer and choose the folder which the driver for me is work.

pc spec:

cpu : intel i7 6700k
mobo : asus z170 deluxe last bios update 1602.
ram : corsair 32 go ddr4 2400 mhz
gpu : evga 980 ti in sli
psu : corsair rm1000i
aio : corsair gtx h110i

astronomas · Jul 12, 2017

I had a simmilar problem when my PC would sometimes freese on startup and during installation of some programs or drivers (including the Ethernet driver). I tried updating BIOS and everything that came to mind, but I finally fixed it by disabling Asmedia SATA controller through BIOS. Just letting to know if someone is still googling for answer to this problem.

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