Hello everyone,
I’m new here, and fairly new to pc building in general. I’ve got one other successful build under my belt. Recently I’ve put together an AMD Threadripper system to use for making YouTube gaming videos. Here is a list of my components and below that is the problem I’m having!
cpu - Threadripper 1900x
cpu cooler - CoolerMaster ml360tr4
motherboard - Gigabyte aorus gaming pro
ram - 32GB hyper x predator (HX430C15PB3K4/32)
Psu - thermaltake RGB pro 750w
storage - Samsung 970 evo 250gb m.2 for OS and 1TB WD blue for mass storage
Gpu - Gigabyte RX Vega 56 oc
OS - Windows 10 pro
So pretty much from the start this system has acted kinda strange. At first it was just randomly laggy and slow for a few seconds and then it would go back to normal, but then when I was playing a game and recording using ReLive it got hung up. Everything on the screen froze and stayed on the monitor, mouse and keyboard inputs didn’t work, the sound glitched, and the case fans ramped up. I had to manually push the power button on the case to get it to shut down. I thought maybe it was a faulty driver so I went and updated all the drivers, did a windows update, restarted the system and it happened again before I even got to load the game up. This is now what happens every time I turn the pc on. And it gives me the BSOD every once in a while and says “thread stuck in device driver”. This would lead me to believe its software related right?
I booted into safe mode, and safe mode with networking and the pc ran excellent for about 2 hours playing YouTube videos and just general pc usage. I then tried a clean boot and it froze as if it were in normal boot mode. I tried a clean install of windows and that helped for a short time, but the freezing came back once I downloaded a game and tried to play it. It froze last night, and then wouldn’t boot back up after I manually shut it down. I don’t want to damage/further damage anything so I came here for advice.
Here are are a few things I’m thinking it could be, at this point I’m just getting really frustrated and just want to use the pc! Lol
-Threadripper makes use of 1 8 pin and 1 4 pin connector on this Mobo. The PSU I’m using only has 1 8 pin connection available. This initially worried me, but after doing some research, it’s supposedly fine to use just the 8 pin if you’re not OC’ing, which I’m not. Maybe this could be the issue?
-The PSU is 750w, but it’s 80+ bronze rated. With 2 very power hungry components in this system, could they be drawing too much power for the PSU to handle?
-I’ve read that a BIOS update can cure these symptoms, but for some reason gigabytes bios update system is confusing to me. I have BIOS version F1. And after going to the gigabyte website, that seems to be the only BIOS version available to me. I’m not sure if it’s out of date, or if there’s another way to find a more recent BIOS update. It makes me nervous to think about a BIOS update being performed on an unstable system..
thank you in advance to anybody who helps!