Hey guys I hope this is being posted in the correct section but let me know if I need to move it.
I recently upgraded from my MSI 970a SLI krait edition to a gigabyte g1 gaming ga-990fxa.
After installing I've had some really weird issues, after installing the gigabyte utilities a couple of them would say "this driver can't release to failure" then they would come up. Specifically this happened with their led controller and their bios update utility. After the error when they opened if I tried to use them they would freeze the computer. Not a blue screen, just no control and I'd have to force restart it with the power button.
I repaired windows with the tool that reinstalls Windows but leaves your files in place then deleted basically everything on my drives except my movies or music and I have a seperate drive for my OS which I didn't touch. I no longer get the error message but the bios utility will still freeze and I haven't even attempted to install the led tool.
Also I will randomly get applications that stop working, sometimes they don't even bring up the end process option they just freeze the computer then go away. It's happened with chrome, steam, origin, and most alarming Windows file explorer.
Does anyone have any ideas of where to start trouble shooting? I have been messing around with overclocking, it's why I got the better mobo, but I've been doing overclocking for a while and I have all the safeguards in place that I don't think I could have damaged the cpu.
My next idea was to entirely wipe the pc and reinstall Windows, then if need be put my old mobo back in and test it, but I wanted to get some advice before I did this
My biggest concern is that the cpu is broken and needs replacing
Thank you for any guidance!
MY RIG:
Windows 10 64bit
AMD fx8350
Gigabyte g1 gaming ga-990fxa
2x EVGA gtx 960 in SLI
EVGA gold 750 psu
120gb sandisk ssd for the OS
260gb sandisk ssd and 1tb seagate hybrid drive for games and other
16gb balistix 1600mhz RAM (4x4gb)
I recently upgraded from my MSI 970a SLI krait edition to a gigabyte g1 gaming ga-990fxa.
After installing I've had some really weird issues, after installing the gigabyte utilities a couple of them would say "this driver can't release to failure" then they would come up. Specifically this happened with their led controller and their bios update utility. After the error when they opened if I tried to use them they would freeze the computer. Not a blue screen, just no control and I'd have to force restart it with the power button.
I repaired windows with the tool that reinstalls Windows but leaves your files in place then deleted basically everything on my drives except my movies or music and I have a seperate drive for my OS which I didn't touch. I no longer get the error message but the bios utility will still freeze and I haven't even attempted to install the led tool.
Also I will randomly get applications that stop working, sometimes they don't even bring up the end process option they just freeze the computer then go away. It's happened with chrome, steam, origin, and most alarming Windows file explorer.
Does anyone have any ideas of where to start trouble shooting? I have been messing around with overclocking, it's why I got the better mobo, but I've been doing overclocking for a while and I have all the safeguards in place that I don't think I could have damaged the cpu.
My next idea was to entirely wipe the pc and reinstall Windows, then if need be put my old mobo back in and test it, but I wanted to get some advice before I did this
My biggest concern is that the cpu is broken and needs replacing
Thank you for any guidance!
MY RIG:
Windows 10 64bit
AMD fx8350
Gigabyte g1 gaming ga-990fxa
2x EVGA gtx 960 in SLI
EVGA gold 750 psu
120gb sandisk ssd for the OS
260gb sandisk ssd and 1tb seagate hybrid drive for games and other
16gb balistix 1600mhz RAM (4x4gb)
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