I installed a GTX1080 FTW in my rig a few days ago. WoW was crashing at random, so I did some troubleshooting. CPU and GPU Temps were stable during gaming and during the heaven benchmark. So I re-seated the card, deleted and re-installed drivers, and also updated my motherboard bios. The problem kept happening. I thought it may be my PSU (from reading forums) which was a Corsair cx750m. So I upgraded to a EVGA Supernova 850 platinum. After installing the platinum my system only recognized my SSD, which had my OS on it. It doesn't see the WD Caviar Black 1tb or my optical drive. I swapped out the SATA and power cables to the HDD and also tried different SATA ports. My computer still doesn't recognize the HDD or optical drive but it did see the SSD in the other SATA spot. Any ideas?
Update: Everything seemed to be working okay on the SSD. Windows was operating normally but my computer still couldn't see the drives. Not even in the BIOS. I attempted to do a clean install on windows but it appears that it failed. I ended up saving a windows installation from another computer onto a USB drive and attempting to install windows with that. It would get hung up on 25% and then fail. After some more reading, I took out one of the two of my 8gb RAM sticks. This time the OS installed to my SSD. After this though, everything was running terribly slow. I tried to do a clean install on my GPU drivers and it failed. The screen didn't flash like normal and it wouldn't let me change the resolution. I shut everything down and plugged in the other stick of RAM and now it's giving me the critical error on startup again. I stopped at that point because I needed to get some sleep. Unfortunately I'm at work now, but would like to get back to this when I get home. Does anyone have any idea of what might be going on?
Does it sound like my GPU was just bad to begin with? Or is my motherboard failing? Did I short something out during the installation of my new PSU? I'm about to pull my hair out with this mess.
Thanks,
Austin
Update: Everything seemed to be working okay on the SSD. Windows was operating normally but my computer still couldn't see the drives. Not even in the BIOS. I attempted to do a clean install on windows but it appears that it failed. I ended up saving a windows installation from another computer onto a USB drive and attempting to install windows with that. It would get hung up on 25% and then fail. After some more reading, I took out one of the two of my 8gb RAM sticks. This time the OS installed to my SSD. After this though, everything was running terribly slow. I tried to do a clean install on my GPU drivers and it failed. The screen didn't flash like normal and it wouldn't let me change the resolution. I shut everything down and plugged in the other stick of RAM and now it's giving me the critical error on startup again. I stopped at that point because I needed to get some sleep. Unfortunately I'm at work now, but would like to get back to this when I get home. Does anyone have any idea of what might be going on?
Does it sound like my GPU was just bad to begin with? Or is my motherboard failing? Did I short something out during the installation of my new PSU? I'm about to pull my hair out with this mess.
Thanks,
Austin
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