Having problems after CPU upgrade

[Tom is a Door]

From A4 6300 -> Athlon x4 860k

Everything works great in terms of gaming performance, but seeing

1.sudden black screen that takes a couple of seconds and comes back to normal

2.Sometime the whole pc just gets extremely slow, and freezes, well my hdd is working its ass off from the hdd led but things get really choppy

-I already have all the latest drivers

-No, i have all my registry and junk file clean, it even happens when i switched hdd and ran ubuntu 12.04(not sure of the version)

-I didn't face these issues before upgrade

-My thermal is good, motherboard and every other component works fine, well atleast from what I can see


*Troubleshoot might have been better thread, sorry, replace if you want to*

[The Official Czex]

From A4 6300 -> Athlon x4 860k

Everything works great in terms of gaming performance, but seeing

1.sudden black screen that takes a couple of seconds and comes back to normal

2.Sometime the whole pc just gets extremely slow, and freezes, well my hdd is working its ass off from the hdd led but things get really choppy

-I already have all the latest drivers

-No, i have all my registry and junk file clean, it even happens when i switched hdd and ran ubuntu 12.04(not sure of the version)

-I didn't face these issues before upgrade

-My thermal is good, motherboard and every other component works fine, well atleast from what I can see

*Troubleshoot might have been better thread, sorry, replace if you want to*

 

Do you have a GPU to go with that Kaveri?

[Tom is a Door]

Do you have a GPU to go with that Kaveri?

Yeah, R9 270, so far haven't seen any issue, when i tried it out with different cpu never had that black screen moment

[The Official Czex]

Yeah, R9 270, so far haven't seen any issue, when i tried it out with different cpu never had that black screen moment

 

Are you sure your monitor is plugged into the R9?

 

EDIT: Try updating your BIOS.

[Tom is a Door]

Are you sure your monitor is plugged into the R9?

 

EDIT: Try updating your BIOS.

ofcourse man, athlon doesn't have any intergrated gpu how am i gonna get display if i dont

Bios is up to date

[The Official Czex]

ofcourse man, athlon doesn't have any intergrated gpu how am i gonna get display if i dont

Bios is up to date

 

Just making sure. Sometimes the best of us make the dumbest mistakes.

 

It might be overheating... What's your cooler?

[Tom is a Door]

Just making sure. Sometimes the best of us make the dumbest mistakes.

 

It might be overheating... What's your cooler?

stock fm2, the one that comes with it, same goes for the thermal paste

[The Official Czex]

stock fm2, the one that comes with it, same goes for the thermal paste

 

Any OCing?

[Tom is a Door]

No

 

Any OCing?

[The Official Czex]

No

 

What are your temps?

[Tom is a Door]

What are your temps?

sorry took me awhile, had to restart to get the temps, around 40, probably went up to 60 at most when gaming, i don't really have extremely demanding games, most of my games are like 2010 ish and or source engine

Also do appreciate your eagerness to help

[The Official Czex]

sorry took me awhile, had to restart to get the temps, around 40, probably went up to 60 at most when gaming, i don't really have extremely demanding games, most of my games are like 2010 ish and or source engine

Also do appreciate your eagerness to help

 

What's your MOBO? RAM frequency? Have you tried switching PCI-e slots?

[Tom is a Door]

What's your MOBO? RAM frequency? Have you tried switching PCI-e slots?

A78M-E Asus

G SKill RipJaws 1600 (4gb x1)

I only have 1 16x slot but okay trying now

[bob345]

make sure no old drivers are still installed. Ususaly when going with a new cpu, a clean install is what i would recommend.

[Tom is a Door]

make sure no old drivers are still installed. Ususaly when going with a new cpu, a clean install is what i would recommend.

sorry if I am coming off stupid, but there are cpu drivers? never knew

[bob345]

sorry if I am coming off stupid, but there are cpu drivers? never knew

not really, but any old motherboard drivers may still thing you have the other cpu, so reinstalling all of them would be a good idea.

[The Official Czex]

sorry if I am coming off stupid, but there are cpu drivers? never knew

 

There are drivers for the 6300 you had. Those could definitely interfere with the functioning of your 860K

[Tom is a Door]

There are drivers for the 6300 you had. Those could definitely interfere with the functioning of your 860K

only had one dual core optimizer that was given to me through Batman Arkaham Asylum and not only reinstalled that game also that program, nothing helped so far

[Guest trucker2]

A78M-E BIOS 1102
Improve stability with CPU Athlon X4 860K.

Saw this blurb on the ASUS web site for your board near a bios update file.

Hope this helps

[Tom is a Door]

A78M-E BIOS 1102

Improve stability with CPU Athlon X4 860K.

Saw this blurb on the ASUS web site for your board near a bios update file.

Hope this helps

yeah I have upgraded to the latest non beta bios firmware