Freezing and crashing

[t4ct1c]

So just recently as in today I finished my new Ryzen build. Everything went well it posted the first time and installed windows with no issues. Then as soon as I got in to the computer it bluescreened(clock watchdog timeout). I figured this was just Ryzen being  unstable so I quickly went to update my bios and AMD drivers. from there it's been non stop freezing.

My specs are

Ryzen 7 1700

Asus prime x370 - pro

GTX 1070 FTW

2x 8GB corsair vengeance RGB 3200 MHz

corsair 750W psu

4 TB Seagate barracuda

1TB Seagate SSHD

Currently the ram is running at a low 2133 MHz by default of the mother board as trying to get it to run 3200 MHz was causing errors.

I'm not sure if its either the motherboard or the ram causing the issue.

[Bartb56]

did you check your temps?

[t4ct1c]

8 minutes ago, Bartb56 said:

did you check your temps?

cpu was sitting at 40ish idle

[0x1e]

27 minutes ago, t4ct1c said:

cpu was sitting at 40ish idle

Did this start as soon as Windows was installed, or after you installed drivers?

 

clock watchdog timeout means something wrong with the CPU, but it can also easily mean drivers are not playing nice. Could even be the OS itself.

 

You can always try safe mode if you constantly crash just to see if you get a blue screen in safe mode.

[raphidy]

Try booting ubuntu on usb drive if necessary to test hardware compatibility and stability at first. Try one ram slotting if that helps.

[t4ct1c]

12 hours ago, 0x1e said:

Did this start as soon as Windows was installed, or after you installed drivers?

 

clock watchdog timeout means something wrong with the CPU, but it can also easily mean drivers are not playing nice. Could even be the OS itself.

 

You can always try safe mode if you constantly crash just to see if you get a blue screen in safe mode.

The clock watchdog timeout usually just occurred at random typically after it froze up. And then there is the freeze which won't even let it get to the blue screen which has typically occurred while trying to install a program. according to windows the machine ran a full 7 hours with out freezing, but in the middle of installing some stuff it froze up.

I used aida 64 to see if it had to do with a fault when the cpu would run at full power but it managed a stress test with out crashing.

[t4ct1c]

9 hours ago, raphidy said:

Try booting ubuntu on usb drive if necessary to test hardware compatibility and stability at first. Try one ram slotting if that helps.

So could it be unsupported ram causing the issue?

 

[t4ct1c]

So far the systems been stable and I haven't been able to recreate the issue. The culprit seems to have been an older version of win 10. I reinstalled a new version and the system seems to be fine.