So....I just bought a new cpu and gpu. The gpu arrived first so I installed the new card (Sapphire Nitro RX 480 8GB). No problems during installation. Compter started normally. I downloaded the new drivers from AMD website and ran installation. During installation of drivers the screen went black several times and when finished the system rebooted.
Upon booting the usual gigabyte splash screen was garbled (Artifacts?) with some barely legible letters at the bottom left wich hinted at "gigabyte." Other then that windows booted normally. I tested it out by playing a game for 30-45 minutes and everything was apperently fine.
CPU arrived during this time (nice timing USPS). Power down, unplug power supply, disconnect motherboard power connector and cpu fan, remove old cpu (I3 2120), cleaned paste off from heatsink, placed new cpu in (I5 3570) applied new thermal compound (arctic silver) put cpu fan back on (stock fan that came with the I3 2120 my new cpu did not inclute heatsink& fan)...reconnect motherboard and fan power connectors. Cross fingers and push the power button...everything is normal, ALL fans working properly get the weird gygabyte splash screen and after 5-10 seconds shuts down for a few seconds then restars itself. It does this on off loop 2-3 times then i kill the power thinking "uh oh."
Google time:
I reset the CMOS. That got me to a screen where i could choose between "last know working settings" "default" etc. I choose default and got windows to load this time before eventually (3-4 minutes?) freezing in a specific way (the mouse cursor insta-centered itself, also the screen went black maybe twice for a few seconds during this time).
My memory is a lttle iffy from here but I tried restarting a few more times with similar results, sometimes making it into windows and eventually freezing and also sometimes doing the boot loop thing it was doing before i reset the CMOS.
I did manage to get into safe mode and it seemed the issue was no longer there but when I tried using selective startup with only microsoft services it kept booting back up with most services off as if in safe mode still. After rebooting in normal startup the problems returned.
I ran out of time to mess with it and plan on putting the old components back in in reverse order, one at a time to see if I can pinpoint if its the new cpu or gpu when I get time.
Between now and then any suggestions are appreciated.
I bought all the components and put together about 5 years ago, never had any issues- no overclocking, bios tinkering etc. pieced it together and hit the GO button (my first build)
Mobo: gigabyte z68ma-d2h-b3
Old cpu: i3 2120
New cpu: i5 3570 (non K)
old gpu: Sapphire Radeon HD 6850
new gpu: Sapphire RX 480 8GB
HEC Xpower Pro 650W PSU
8GB (2x4gb) Kingston HyperX 1600
Windows 10 64
Upon booting the usual gigabyte splash screen was garbled (Artifacts?) with some barely legible letters at the bottom left wich hinted at "gigabyte." Other then that windows booted normally. I tested it out by playing a game for 30-45 minutes and everything was apperently fine.
CPU arrived during this time (nice timing USPS). Power down, unplug power supply, disconnect motherboard power connector and cpu fan, remove old cpu (I3 2120), cleaned paste off from heatsink, placed new cpu in (I5 3570) applied new thermal compound (arctic silver) put cpu fan back on (stock fan that came with the I3 2120 my new cpu did not inclute heatsink& fan)...reconnect motherboard and fan power connectors. Cross fingers and push the power button...everything is normal, ALL fans working properly get the weird gygabyte splash screen and after 5-10 seconds shuts down for a few seconds then restars itself. It does this on off loop 2-3 times then i kill the power thinking "uh oh."
Google time:
I reset the CMOS. That got me to a screen where i could choose between "last know working settings" "default" etc. I choose default and got windows to load this time before eventually (3-4 minutes?) freezing in a specific way (the mouse cursor insta-centered itself, also the screen went black maybe twice for a few seconds during this time).
My memory is a lttle iffy from here but I tried restarting a few more times with similar results, sometimes making it into windows and eventually freezing and also sometimes doing the boot loop thing it was doing before i reset the CMOS.
I did manage to get into safe mode and it seemed the issue was no longer there but when I tried using selective startup with only microsoft services it kept booting back up with most services off as if in safe mode still. After rebooting in normal startup the problems returned.
I ran out of time to mess with it and plan on putting the old components back in in reverse order, one at a time to see if I can pinpoint if its the new cpu or gpu when I get time.
Between now and then any suggestions are appreciated.
I bought all the components and put together about 5 years ago, never had any issues- no overclocking, bios tinkering etc. pieced it together and hit the GO button (my first build)
Mobo: gigabyte z68ma-d2h-b3
Old cpu: i3 2120
New cpu: i5 3570 (non K)
old gpu: Sapphire Radeon HD 6850
new gpu: Sapphire RX 480 8GB
HEC Xpower Pro 650W PSU
8GB (2x4gb) Kingston HyperX 1600
Windows 10 64
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