Well, my system was working fine except for occasionally freezing when playing certain games. I'd thought this was being caused by out-of-date driver for my motherboard as I had never installed any after clean installing Windows 10, I just kept using whatever was automatically.
Well, after installing the Chipset, LAN, Audio and SATA drivers for my motherboard from Gigabyte's website:
http://www.gigabyte.us/Motherboard/GA-H170M-D3H-rev-10#support-dl
my PC seems to be working fine but the sleep mode is all messed up. It shuts down/boots and restarts all fine. However if I put it to sleep, when I wake it (with keyboard stroke, mouse etc), it has shown a black screen with cursor, or just straight blue (like Windows 10 blue) screen and in both cases, requires a hard reset.
My GPU drivers were all up to date before doing the mobo drivers install and sleep was working fine before the new mobo drivers, but now I have this issue basically making sleep mode un-usable. I am thinking it had something to do with either the Intel INF installation (under chipset) or the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (under SATA). I did not install any of the SATA "preinstall" drivers as the OS was already installed fine. Clearly something is not waking up correctly when the rest of the system is woken from sleep, but is able to fully boot properly from shut-down state.
Has anyone had this problem and found a workaround? Is there any way to roll back the drivers to a previous version (I might not want to do this though if it makes my PC continue to freeze...)
System Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: Kingston FURY 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory
Storage: Corsair Force LE 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive )
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 480 8GB Video Card
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mini Tower Case
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit
Well, after installing the Chipset, LAN, Audio and SATA drivers for my motherboard from Gigabyte's website:
http://www.gigabyte.us/Motherboard/GA-H170M-D3H-rev-10#support-dl
my PC seems to be working fine but the sleep mode is all messed up. It shuts down/boots and restarts all fine. However if I put it to sleep, when I wake it (with keyboard stroke, mouse etc), it has shown a black screen with cursor, or just straight blue (like Windows 10 blue) screen and in both cases, requires a hard reset.
My GPU drivers were all up to date before doing the mobo drivers install and sleep was working fine before the new mobo drivers, but now I have this issue basically making sleep mode un-usable. I am thinking it had something to do with either the Intel INF installation (under chipset) or the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (under SATA). I did not install any of the SATA "preinstall" drivers as the OS was already installed fine. Clearly something is not waking up correctly when the rest of the system is woken from sleep, but is able to fully boot properly from shut-down state.
Has anyone had this problem and found a workaround? Is there any way to roll back the drivers to a previous version (I might not want to do this though if it makes my PC continue to freeze...)
System Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: Kingston FURY 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory
Storage: Corsair Force LE 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive )
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 480 8GB Video Card
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mini Tower Case
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit