Problems with new PC build

Martin_54

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Apr 12, 2016
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Hi everyone,

I am having severe problems with my newly built PC.

Here are my system specs first:
AMD FX-8300 3.3 GHz
MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti OC 2GB DDR5
AsRock 980DE3/US3S R2.0
2 x Crucial 4GB DDR3 1600MHz CL11
Thermaltake Smart SE 530W
1 WD hard drive with 120 GB and 1 Seagate hard drive with 180 GB
Running Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit

I built this PC myself, installed Windows 7, upgraded to 10 but then had to go back to 7 due to some network issues.

Since then, my PC has gone mad. It freezes up, programs crash, I get blue screens and so on.

Recently I couldn't even boot anymore as my hard drive (Western Digital) wasn't being detected anymore, it wouldn't even show up in BIOS. I was assuming all of these problems stem from the hard drive so I reinstalled the OS on my Seagate.

Now, everything keeps crashing, browsers, Windows Explorer, everything. And I still get the blue screen

Sometimes the screen will go dark, the PC restarts but it doesn't boot into Windows, unless I restart several more times.

I've tried a ton of solution that I found on various forums to no avail.

I checked the RAM with Windows Memory Diagnostics and got no error. I checked all the cables in my PC, all seem fine.

All components are brand new, except for the 2 hard drives which were working fine until I had to switch back from Win 10 to 7.

Here are the blue screen errors I got before reinstalling Windows 7:

STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x0000000000000003, 0xFFFFFA80058D25F0,0xFFFFFA80058D28D0, 0xFFFFF80002DDD130).

My Western Digital hard drive still doesn't show up in BIOS or after reinstalling the OS but it is still plugged in to the motherboard and power supply (could it still be interfering with the PC???).

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am getting desperate.
 

Martin_54

Commendable
Apr 12, 2016
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1,510


So are you saying Thermaltake is the issue or my old hard drives?
I know it's not good to use these old hard drives but I didn't have the money yet to get new ones. I will, but I want to make sure it's the hard drives and not the RAM or some other component.