So yeah, this morning I performed a BIOS Update on my GA-Z68AP-D3 (rev. 2.0) Motherboard from Version: (FD to UA9(UEFI BIOS) before I clean install windows 10 on my new ssd. Everything seemed okay as it booted into windows but then It installed a bunch of drivers to start of with which I thought was a bit odd? Then my PC just froze about 10 minutes later, still powering and still got a desktop screen just couldn't move my mouse and keyboard.
I've tried to reinstall my graphics card and drivers, also went into the bios and set everything back to "optimized default" but it's still freezing randomly. The only thing that looked odd to me in to bios is the "Sata mode" I'm not sure if it was on IDE mode before and have a feeling it might of been on "RAID" as I did check it recently about changing it to AHCI before installing windows 10 on the ssd.
The one thing I'm afraid of is resetting the bios back to factory settings because this motherboard doesn't support "intel Support Intel 3rd generation" without an actual bios update. I have a i7 3700k and back in 2012/13 when I built this pc I ended up having to take it to a pc repair shop to "resolve this issue" and it ended up being that my bios needed updated. I do have a bootable usb stick but I'm not wanting to get stuck on a black screen like what happened a few years ago not being able to do anything.
Would really appreciate the urgent response and what to do, my motherboard can be found here (rev 2.0) http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4015#bios
Regards
Jake
I've tried to reinstall my graphics card and drivers, also went into the bios and set everything back to "optimized default" but it's still freezing randomly. The only thing that looked odd to me in to bios is the "Sata mode" I'm not sure if it was on IDE mode before and have a feeling it might of been on "RAID" as I did check it recently about changing it to AHCI before installing windows 10 on the ssd.
The one thing I'm afraid of is resetting the bios back to factory settings because this motherboard doesn't support "intel Support Intel 3rd generation" without an actual bios update. I have a i7 3700k and back in 2012/13 when I built this pc I ended up having to take it to a pc repair shop to "resolve this issue" and it ended up being that my bios needed updated. I do have a bootable usb stick but I'm not wanting to get stuck on a black screen like what happened a few years ago not being able to do anything.
Would really appreciate the urgent response and what to do, my motherboard can be found here (rev 2.0) http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4015#bios
Regards
Jake