New apu causing issues?

isaacmendez77

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Dec 31, 2016
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Hello everyone, i recently upgraded from an a6-5400k up to an a10-7860k. When i first put it in, my computer seemed about the same as when I had the old apu. There were also various graphics driver issues and random BSOD. I thought this was an issue due to a lack of RAM since i only had 4GB at the time. I then put in another 4GB and my performance improved drastically and I thought I had solved the issue, for the first hour or so everything was working flawlessly, all the games that had been crashing before were now running perfectly fine; however, after this hour, all the old problems began once again. I was unable to Launch BF4 due to driver issues, and various other games would have a number of other issues such as the graphics driver seeming to crash altogether forcing me to restart with my computer screen showing up red. I've tested the RAM and there seems to be no issues, and there also doesn't seem to be any issues with the hard drive. At this point I have no idea what the issue could be. Is it possible that the apu that I got was bad (since it was previously used)? If not then I have no idea what it could be.
My current computer:
Apu: A10 7860k with R7 graphics
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-F2A68HM-HD2 FM2+ AMD A68H SATA 6Gb/s
Powersupply: Im not sure anymore, can't find the order history on this one, but it was cheap and around 600 watts
8 GB 1600 DDR3 RAM
any help would be greatly appreciated thank you
 
Solution
Depending on the revision of that motherboard, the Rev 1.0 version of it requires BIOS version F2c.

I would suggest downloading AMD Overdrive to check the thermal margin of the APU though. Ideally it should be above 20 deg C on a full load; the lower the thermal margin is, the closer to overheating the APU is.

Insofar you mention a red screen I'm assuming you're using Windows 10. If so, have a look at this and see if there's any help there.
Depending on the revision of that motherboard, the Rev 1.0 version of it requires BIOS version F2c.

I would suggest downloading AMD Overdrive to check the thermal margin of the APU though. Ideally it should be above 20 deg C on a full load; the lower the thermal margin is, the closer to overheating the APU is.

Insofar you mention a red screen I'm assuming you're using Windows 10. If so, have a look at this and see if there's any help there.
 
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