Factory Reset fixed my issue?

[Yogi_DaBear221]

So for anyone that seen me post about it before, my PC was crashing, everything going black screen, couldn't turn it off without flipping the power switch, welllll I did a format of all of my hard drives which needed to be done anyway because I had a bunch of crap on my computer anyway, so I did it on Sunday, and other than restarts for reinstalling drivers and things, and its been 5 days, and I've had no crashes. Well one of the times it crashed before I cleared everything it booted into a disk check. I was told that clearing everything wouldn't fix it but I haven't had any issues since the restart, can anyone tell me why a simple format of everything fixed my issue?

 

Now before this I'd swapped graphics cards, reseated ram, literally everything short of replacing everything all together. Then I simply wiped everything, didn't even do like a fresh windows install, but this ended up being the fix for it.

 

Specs:

• CPU
  Ryzen 5 2600
• Motherboard
  ASUS ROG STRIX X 470 F
• RAM
  T-Force 16GB 2666mhz DDR4
• GPU
  Power Color Red Dragon RX580 8GB
• Case
  Rosewill Cullinan V500
• Storage
  1 X WD 1TB HDD
  2 X Seagate 2TB HDD
  1 Silicon Power 256gb SSD
• PSU
  Thermaltake Smart 700 80+ White

[Bombastinator]

Just ran into a post by a guy going equally nuts.  I’m tempted to link this thread.

[TylerDurden!]

33 minutes ago, Yogi_DaBear221 said:

but this ended up being the fix for it.

that is Windows for you.  I would not believe anyone saying something could never be fixed by doing "X" though.  troubleshooting is never always that cut n' dry