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TL;DR: Unstable OS after graphics card and motherboard upgrade. How would I diagnose/fix?

 

Hey there,

 

I'm kind of new to PC building and gaming, so I apologize for anything incorrect I say. 

 

I've made my first major upgrades to my personal rig about a day ago, upgrading my graphics card and motherboard. Ever since then, windows itself has been very unstable. Immediately after upgrading, I experienced frequent crashes and BSOD's. I managed to reset the system and get a fresh install of windows using Windows' "Reset your PC" option, and that was stable enough for me to do some basic web browsing. At this point, I noticed loading anything besides Chrome would Bluescreen me. Fearing I had a bad OS install, I jettisoned my personal files into my OneDrive and tried to do a fresh install on my SSD. While I can get Windows installed and running, I can't get it stable at all - it'll last maybe ten seconds on my SSD and a couple minutes on my HDD without crashing. At this point I'm pretty certain it's either the graphics card or the motherboard - a few of the error codes I got were graphics or driver issues. 

 

My big question: Is this a graphics card/driver issue, or a motherboard issue? If it's a graphics card issue, how would I fix it? 

 

I'm currently running:

Ryzen 5 2600x - base clock, no OC

G.Skill DDR4 - 3200 16gb kit

ROG Strix X570-I Gaming MOBO (New)

ROG GeForce GXT 1650 Super

Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 2TB 3.5" 

Corsair MP300 Force 120GB SSD 

EVGA 550 Watt PSU (I forget the exact model. G2 or something like that)

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so there is some weird stuff around am4 with some PSU. any random full lockups?

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

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7 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

so there is some weird stuff around am4 with some PSU. any random full lockups?

It's only locked up once; it froze completely while I was trying to update graphics drivers and I had to do a hard shut-down by holding the power button. Every other time though it crashes, gives me an error code, and restarts, so I don't think it's a PSU issue.

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2 hours ago, HagelBagel said:

It's only locked up once; it froze completely while I was trying to update graphics drivers and I had to do a hard shut-down by holding the power button. Every other time though it crashes, gives me an error code, and restarts, so I don't think it's a PSU issue.

okay then it doesn't seem like that. try only 1 ram stick and change between the 2.

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow.
GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

PSU Tier List      Motherboard Tier List     SSD Tier List     How to get PC parts cheap    HP probook 445R G6 review

 

"Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid."

Camera Gear: X-S10, 16-80 F4, 60D, 24-105 F4, 50mm F1.4, Helios44-m, 2 Cos-11D lavs

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On 2/9/2020 at 2:23 PM, GDRRiley said:

okay then it doesn't seem like that. try only 1 ram stick and change between the 2.

That was it! Ran both sticks individually through the memory diagnostic tool and found the bad one. Runs great again. 

Thanks!!

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1 minute ago, HagelBagel said:

That was it! Ran both sticks individually through the memory diagnostic tool and found the bad one. Runs great again. 

Thanks!!

your welcome

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow.
GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

PSU Tier List      Motherboard Tier List     SSD Tier List     How to get PC parts cheap    HP probook 445R G6 review

 

"Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid."

Camera Gear: X-S10, 16-80 F4, 60D, 24-105 F4, 50mm F1.4, Helios44-m, 2 Cos-11D lavs

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