Permanent freezes after a few minutes of running, following a motherboard upgrade.

jonathonveitch83 · Mar 9, 2018

I recently upgraded my Asrock 970 Extreme4 to a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P, and now it freezes permanently after a few minutes of running, it also seems to restart sometimes mid-boot, and it sometimes freezes when loading windows 10 as well.

I swapped my Asrock back into my PC and everything works normally again, any ideas?

Edit: I just remembered, every so often, before the upgrade, my computer would also freeze a few minutes after boot, but it was quite rare.

Specs:
FX 8350
GTX 1060 3gb
Asrock 970 Extreme4 / Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P
Windows 10
4 x Crucial Ballistix ddr3 4bg
Corsair CX750M

Dunlop0078 · Mar 9, 2018

Probably driver issues. You should reinstall the OS when switching motherboards.

RARRAF · Mar 9, 2018

well you need a fresh install of the OS even windows 10

COLGeek · Mar 9, 2018

With the Asrock motherboard installed, what SATA mode (check in the BIOS) are you running (IDE, AHCI, or RAID)?

Also, why the "upgrade"? Seems more of a "sidegrade". Is there something the Asrock lacks?

jonathonveitch83 · Mar 9, 2018

COLGeek :

The asrock suffers from pretty bad VRM overheating

Dunlop0078 · Mar 9, 2018

COLGeek :

They were known to have pretty weak VRMs, the asrock board has a 4+1 phase VRM. That gigabyte board is 8+2. I guess it's an upgrade if the OP plans on overclocking.

COLGeek · Mar 9, 2018

Dunlop0078 :

Understood and agreed, but as AM3+ rigs are on the decline, it is hard to justify the expense of a new motherboard given the newer tech options available. But I digress.

As stated earlier, you likely have a driver issue. You could also have a SATA mode mismatch issue, thus the earlier question.

With the Gigabyte mobo installed, manually set the SATA mode to IDE (slower, but more compatible), to see if the system will boot properly. You could also try booting with but a single stick of memory installed. While in the BIOS, you could also disable any non-essential devices to troubleshoot the system.

The best option is a clean install of the OS as the others have suggested.

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