Posted September 24, 2020 Hello, I recently upgraded parts of my PC and have been having issues running Windows 10 since then. At a rather random interval, the whole screen freezes for a few seconds then goes blank. If a video was playing, the audio continues for a little bit and then the whole system is unresponsive and I have to force reboot by pressing the reset button or long-pressing the power button to turn off. I thought it might be a hardware issue and installed Solus OS to ran parallel and it runs like a dream. Unfortunately, my work flow requires windows and I cannot completely ditch the OS quite yet. I tried reinstalling display drivers but AMD only has an executable from which to run an installer but not drivers that can be installed using the Windows' built in device manager. My specs are as follows: Windows 10 Home AMD 3300X on an ASUS Tuf Gaming X570 (non-wifi) motherboard MSI Twin Frozr 7870 2GB 2X8 GB Corsair Vengeance PRO DDR4 3600 MHz RAM (Mobo supports up to 3200 MHz without overclock and my guess is that the RAM is running at an underclock right now) WD Blue 1TB PCIe Gen 3 NVME SSD (Boot/Windows drive) 250GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD (file storage) 120GB OCZ Agility SSD (Solus OS) 2 TB Seagate 7200RPM HDD Asus ROG 550W PSU ASUS PA236 23" Monitor connected by DVI Any help is appreciated! Prambler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 24, 2020 probably your gpu PC specs: Ryzen 9 3900X overclocked to 4.3-4.4 GHz Corsair H100i platinum 32 GB Trident Z RGB 3200 MHz 14-14-14-34 RTX 2060 MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge wifi NZXT H510 Samsung 860 EVO 500GB 2 TB WD hard drive Corsair RM 750 Watt ASUS ROG PG248Q Razer Ornata Chroma Razer Firefly Razer Deathadder 2013 Logitech G935 Wireless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 24, 2020 6 minutes ago, Prambler said: I recently upgraded parts of my PC and have been having issues running Windows 10 since then. I tried reinstalling display drivers but AMD only has an executable from which to run an installer but not drivers that can be installed using the Windows' built in device manager. What hardware changes did you make? (it likely has to do with one of them) Both AMD and Nvidia release their drivers in that fashion, windows handling their drivers tends to have undesirable effects, at least in personal experience. desktop Spoiler r5 3600,3450@0.9v (0.875v get) 4.2ghz@1.25v (1.212 get) | custom loop cpu&gpu 1260mm nexxos xt45 | MSI b450i gaming ac | crucial ballistix 2x8 3000c15->3733c15@1.39v(1.376v get) |Zotac 2060 amp | 256GB Samsung 950 pro nvme | 1TB Adata su800 | 4TB HGST drive | Silverstone SX500-LG HTPC Spoiler HTPC i3 7300 | Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H | 16GB G Skill | Adata XPG SX8000 128GB M.2 | Many HDDs | Rosewill FBM-01 | Corsair CXM 450W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 24, 2020 make sure everything is seated in good. then run a memtest could have a stick going bad also amd cpus like the ram speeds higher go into the bios and get it set higher might clear up the issue too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 24, 2020 Author 21 hours ago, Cyracus said: What hardware changes did you make? (it likely has to do with one of them) I changed everything except storage and GPU when my old Intel i5 2400 processor crashed. Couldn't immediately afford the GPU, so kept it to be changed on a later day. Have had this problem since I had this new config. 20 hours ago, keysbeast said: make sure everything is seated in good. then run a memtest could have a stick going bad also amd cpus like the ram speeds higher go into the bios and get it set higher might clear up the issue too. Will give it a shot and see if it helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 24, 2020 Did you do a clean install of windows? Always recommended to do a clean installation when hardware changes, orphaned drivers can cause plenty of issues desktop Spoiler r5 3600,3450@0.9v (0.875v get) 4.2ghz@1.25v (1.212 get) | custom loop cpu&gpu 1260mm nexxos xt45 | MSI b450i gaming ac | crucial ballistix 2x8 3000c15->3733c15@1.39v(1.376v get) |Zotac 2060 amp | 256GB Samsung 950 pro nvme | 1TB Adata su800 | 4TB HGST drive | Silverstone SX500-LG HTPC Spoiler HTPC i3 7300 | Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H | 16GB G Skill | Adata XPG SX8000 128GB M.2 | Many HDDs | Rosewill FBM-01 | Corsair CXM 450W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 25, 2020 Author 20 hours ago, Cyracus said: Did you do a clean install of windows? Always recommended to do a clean installation when hardware changes, orphaned drivers can cause plenty of issues It is a clean install. The NVME SSD is new and that is what I installed windows on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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