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Anyone here catch wind of the rtx cards kinda bricking themselves in games? So some back story, I finally got a 3060 on the 14th of this month and a few days in it bricked itself in games-to be clear it worked fine the first 2 days. It would run benchmarks fine, just not games, after the updates. The game would stutter a little on splash screen or the second you load into the game then you could hear all the sounds but black screen or frozen. I tried rolling back the windows update from a few days ago and rolling back the nvidia drivers 5 versions (even doing studio ones as well), clean install of windows, I have a more in-depth post on nvidias forums. Then I started reading more forum posts....there were at least 10 more posts of the exact same issue all lining up with my same time line and the cards were of varying age. Almost all were 3000 series and almost all were on ryzen systems. There were a few outliers but the vast majority were those that I listed. I ended up just rma-ing the card and getting a 3070ti but not everyone can just throw a wad of cash at the issue to fix it. I also just popped the 3070ti into the same system as the 3060 no changes and it worked fine. (I had already done a clean windows install and am currently running 1-2 driver versions back on it I can't remember by the end of it and don't want to rehash that 3 day long nightmare). I can try and pull log files for the issue but I don't have the card to replicate the issues anymore. I did post some snips of windows event viewer and some error logs in my OG nvidia post so I can also link to that with a full list of specs and all the hardware I swapped out in the system to troubleshoot this issue.

Ah well, I've tried a lot and I just want this project to be done. I've got a spare windows 8.1 key so I'll just use that and share the drives on my home network. Probably the worst solution, but better than a stack of unused hardware. Thanks for everyone's help

It still doesn't recognize the USB after installing using dd either.

I've changed the boot priority. After I install FreeNAS to the USB it no longer reconizes it to be a boot priority EG plug the USB in and change priority and it says boot 1 is cruzer USB install FreeNAS boots in, goes straight to bios like there's no OS on any disk I check the Boot priority and it says the cruzer isn't there anymore and that boot 1 is flash USB (should give name of disk if it's inserted and reconized there) I'm working on trying the dd method from above right now, just gotta reformat and clean the flash drive and then we'll be off the the races again

I haven't tried booting another computer from the stick, I'll try this next. I used many ways to set up the drive. I tried using 7zip and win32diskimager, I tried rufus, I tried just extracting the data and leaving it as is, and as I said I tried just using the ISO to install it on a hard drive but none worked.

I've been trying to set up my first NAS and I wanted to use FreeNAS and hopefully get a personal cloud set up using some plug-ins but I can't even get FreeNAS to boot. My hardware is a pentium g3258, and ECS h81h3-a3 mobo (I suspect this is the problem), 8 GBs of generic ddr3 ram, and some hard drives I want to set up into a JBOD. I know raid is best for redundancy but I don't have the money to buy a ton of hard drives of the same size right now and I have a ton of 500GB and 1TB Hard drives laying around (5-8 ish) so with a JBOD I can get more space out of it and all I have to do is copy over the data to another JBOD of the same size to do a poor mans raid. The issue at hand. Once I create a bootable USB with FreeNAS it no longer recogonizes my USB, if I just leave it as an ISO and try and install it to a hard drive it says the USB is empty. I know the USB works as a bootable because I used it as my Ubuntu boot drive for several months in this very system. Why I suspect the MOBO to be the issue: I've had a lot of trouble with this motherboard. I literally cannot run windows 10 at all on this system anymore. After an upgrade my computer refuses to boot with windows 10 (why I moved to ubuntu). I've got a few laptops and no longer need a desktop per say so I decided a nas with cloud function would better suit my needs. Incase I can't get FreeNAS to run, suggestions for other free NAS software is welcomed!