MostlyCheese

You are correct! I managed to update Windows 10 through many crashes and restarts until it was installed, the computer didn't crash after that I managed to install every driver and run Unigine Superposition and a couple of games. Thanks everyone for your help I would never of thought of something as simple as a Windows update to fix this kind of issue.

Update: I can’t even download new Windows updates without it crashing, the furthest I’ve got is 71% on a fresh install. Now my Windows key can’t be used anymore and is not active because I’ve installed it to many times. But I do see why the update may help as there is various AMD drivers and one for the RX 580, the key I have is quite old (a physical USB with a card showing the Windows key) and I may have to buy a newer version with those updates. But it might not even be that... I may have bad software or faulty hardware, I’m gonna see if i can squeeze in the new updates and if all else fails I’m going to buy a new Windows USB stick see if that works, if not, take it to a store to get it diagnosed. Thanks everyone for your help.

Alright I'll try a fresh install tomorrow and if all else fails I'll get it diagnosed. Thanks for your help though!

Is it possible that the CPU cooler is not doing its job? it is at 45-50C idle in the BIOS

It crashed again... when I was installing the radeon software this happened I then pressed "view log" and it opened explorer then crashed

Well its been 20 mins and I haven't crashed installing the GPU drivers..... so it might be fixed! i'll run some benchmarks and games after just to be sure. Thanks heaps and sorry for being such a newb computer builder.

I've flashed the bios and i'm back in windows, is this fixed or do have more to do?

I’ll give you an update once I’ve done that, thanks man

No I stated that I was not overclocked, and i'm not sure how to update the BIOS but the version is 2.17.1246

G'day! I've just built my first computer on a AMD based system with the following parts; - Ryzen 5 1600 (using stock cooler and no overclocking) - ASUS ROG Strix B350-F Gaming Motherboard - Team T-Force Delta RGB 2400MHz 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 (defaulted to 2133MHz in the BIOS, I've successfully booted in 2400MHz by changing it manually and also booted in 2133MHz in AUTO mode) - ASUS ROG STIX rx580 8GB OC Edition - Samsung 960 EVO 250GB SSD - TP-Link Archer T9E Wireless Adapter - Corsair RM650x PSU - Phanteks P400s TGE - Windows 10 (64 Bit) I have run into some problems when coming into windows, the first time it booted fine and went through the process of setting up windows and got to the desktop, and i first installed the driver for the wireless adapter to get internet and then installed some of the Radeon settings and AMD software driver updaters. I did also look install the drivers from the ASUS website. I have installed every driver expect for the GPU and as i installed that the computer crashed and got the windows blue screen. I restarted again and uninstalled the GPU drivers (thinking the GPU was the problem) and then re-installed them. I did get to finish installing but a few minutes later the computer crashed again. I tried resting windows, booting with one ram stick, lowering memory MHz from 2400MHz to 2133Mhz and then booting, and wiping the SSD for a fresh install of windows but every time i did something like installing or downloading updates for drivers or even simple things like Steam and Chrome, the computer would crash. I never saw an error message on the previous crashes but on my current fresh install I got the "CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT" error message. Even doing things like extracting the chipset driver files from ASUS caused messages like; not enough memory (not a blue screen but an error message) and during that extraction the computer would freeze for a very long time and go to the error screen. As a first time builder this really has me worried and I'm sure i have installed everything correctly. I checked the CPU for any bent pins and I found none, the CPU is seated properly the power cables are in properly, the GPU is seated properly, and all the power and reset switches are installed correctly. Now i'm just getting the CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT error. Right now the CPU temps in the ASUS UEFI BIOS Utility are around 50C, the motherboard temps are 37C and the GPU temps are 35C and ASUS EZ System Tuning is default has been untouched at normal mode. TLDR: My computer freezes now when I try to install something on windows and i get the CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT error message. Is this fixable? or have I done something wrong?