Hello everyone.
Just last night I finally got the last piece needed to upgrade my Pc. I changed the motherboard (to an MSI H110M Gaming), CPU (to an Intel i5 6500) and RAM (to 2X4GB DDR4 2133Mhz G-Skills). For Christmas, I got a GeForce GTX 1060 which is what I built these components around. The graphics card worked perfectly fine, so I don't believe it is the problem. But after taking my PC apart, switching the parts, reinstalling the OS, and activating it it began crashing. These were typically blue screens. I attributed it to the drivers not being updated so I quickly did those. Once that was done, it still crashed but it was further in between. After leaving it for the night, I came back and it seemed fine. I also checked and the PC does in fact recognize all the new parts and says they're working fine. But after playing games for about 15 to 20 minutes it again stopped working, but these few times it was either freezing or just rebooting without the blue screen. I then double checked to make sure if I had enough watts in my PSU, and I did (as apparently a 500 watt PSU is alright for what I have). I've made sure windows (10 home edition if that helps) and my drivers were all up to date, and that there were no loose cables, so now I'm dumbfounded. Does anyone know what the issue might be and any potential fixes? Thank you very much.
Just last night I finally got the last piece needed to upgrade my Pc. I changed the motherboard (to an MSI H110M Gaming), CPU (to an Intel i5 6500) and RAM (to 2X4GB DDR4 2133Mhz G-Skills). For Christmas, I got a GeForce GTX 1060 which is what I built these components around. The graphics card worked perfectly fine, so I don't believe it is the problem. But after taking my PC apart, switching the parts, reinstalling the OS, and activating it it began crashing. These were typically blue screens. I attributed it to the drivers not being updated so I quickly did those. Once that was done, it still crashed but it was further in between. After leaving it for the night, I came back and it seemed fine. I also checked and the PC does in fact recognize all the new parts and says they're working fine. But after playing games for about 15 to 20 minutes it again stopped working, but these few times it was either freezing or just rebooting without the blue screen. I then double checked to make sure if I had enough watts in my PSU, and I did (as apparently a 500 watt PSU is alright for what I have). I've made sure windows (10 home edition if that helps) and my drivers were all up to date, and that there were no loose cables, so now I'm dumbfounded. Does anyone know what the issue might be and any potential fixes? Thank you very much.