Upgraded tonight, nothing but problems.

[Sprondeau]

Hey everyone, 

 

A couple months ago I ordered myself an MSi M7 motherboard, an i7 6700k and 32gb of Corsair Vengeance RAM. I decided this week that I would finally put it all into my system and use my current CPU cooler. It starts up fine but won't do finish any Intel updates that I've downloaded. It'll get to about 90% and go unresponsive. Computer runs extremely sluggish and won't turn off or restart without my holding the power button down on the tower. 

 

Please help, I've been trying to figure all this out tonight and I think I'm already losing hair. 

[airdeano]

OS?

what intel updates?

have you set the UEFI/BIOS to default settings?

[Wander Away]

Did you look at the temperatures of your hardware? 

What about the Windows installation? is there anything wrong with that?

[Sprondeau]

1 minute ago, airdeano said:

OS?

what intel updates?

have you set the UEFI/BIOS to default settings?

Sorry, Windows 8.1, chipset update and audio drivers. 

[Sprondeau]

2 minutes ago, Wander Away said:

Did you look at the temperatures of your hardware? 

What about the Windows installation? is there anything wrong with that?

Temps are normal, if not lower than before. Still using 8.1 installed on a Samsung 840 pro. 

[incarnate]

Is it a clean install? If not then you will have to manually remove all the conflicting drivers from your old motherboard and fix any other conflicts you come across.

[airdeano]

usually, the chipset needs .NET and installs this as well.

when it initializes on install, it'll prompt a restart. after reboot, it'll complete the installation. which part hangs?

any other SATA drives installed (USB OS?)

[Wander Away]

Just now, incarnate said:

Is it a clean install? If not then you will have to manually remove all the conflicting drivers from your old motherboard and fix any other conflicts you come across.

^ This. 

otherwise, try booting from safe mode and uninstall all the drivers manually (normally its just easier to do a clean install)

[Sprondeau]

4 minutes ago, Wander Away said:

^ This. 

otherwise, try booting from safe mode and uninstall all the drivers manually (normally its just easier to do a clean install)

That might be the problem. Where am I able to find all of the old drivers?

[airdeano]

all the drivers are here: https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/Z170A-GAMING-M7.html#down-bios

 

install after OS is fresh:

01 chipset

02 intel engine management

03 lan

04 USB 3.0

05 audio (optional)

06 dedicated GPU/iGPU (if needed)

[Wander Away]

6 minutes ago, Sprondeau said:

That might be the problem. Where am I able to find all of the old drivers?

Most of it can be found under control panel>programs>programs and features

 

Finding the correct items to uninstall however... can be a pain