Fresh install freezing every few seconds until keypress.

[Bluechill911]

So I've tried installing windows 10 countless times on my PC. Every time I get the issue of freezing. During the installation I had to lay a rock on a key to keep everything from freezing during the entire process. After hours and hours of errors and restarting I am finally able to get to the desktop. Victory. Only there's one problem. The freezing persists, every 2-3 secknds I must press on a key on the keyboard for it to unfreeze. I went back to Windows 7. I do not have any problems there (except for every other day or so I get 30 second hangs that ctrlaltdel can't unhang). What is wrong with my PC? It was a fresh install of Windows 10 on a formatted SSD. My mobo is ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0 and my CPU is an FX-4350. Running a GTX 760 as well. Please help me out

 

[Tenslaster2980]

So I've tried installing windows 10 countless times on my PC. Every time I get the issue of freezing. During the installation I had to lay a rock on a key to keep everything from freezing during the entire process. After hours and hours of errors and restarting I am finally able to get to the desktop. Victory. Only there's one problem. The freezing persists, every 2-3 secknds I must press on a key on the keyboard for it to unfreeze. I went back to Windows 7. I do not have any problems there (except for every other day or so I get 30 second hangs that ctrlaltdel can't unhang). What is wrong with my PC? It was a fresh install of Windows 10 on a formatted SSD. My mobo is ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0 and my CPU is an FX-4350. Running a GTX 760 as well. Please help me out

On Newegg under supported Operating Systems, Windows 10 isn't there. It only goes to Windows 10. Did you get the latest BIOS/UEFI update?

 

[SgtScream]

If you can, take the gtx 760 completely out of your build and plug your monitor into the onboard. If the issue doesn't replicate you know if was the graphics card. If the issue does replicate we know to start looking somewhere else.

 

[offroadguy56]

Check in the BIOS/UEFI settings. There might be some windows 10 optimizations you can fiddle around with like Fast Boot.

As Tenslaster2980 stated, update your BIOS/UEFI. The latest BIOS version for your board is version 2501 updated on 5/14/2014.

 

[Bluechill911]

Thanks for the tips. I will try when I get home and record my findings

 

[Bluechill911]

Extremely late response but the BIOS update fixed months of problems. Thank you all so much. Also, I got stuck on the "Welcome" screen and all I had to do was remove my USB wifi dongle and restart and I got past it. I hope other people's issues can be solved too. I am going to buy a key off of kinguin if not having a license key becomes a major issue.