Complete Freeze up on first boot of day, brand new mobo and CPU.

[Heydeeohred]

Let me try to give as much information as possible, because I have a really strange problem that I've searched up and down Google and found no solutions. This wasn't happening before I put the new hardware in.

I recently rebuilt my computer because it started acting all fritzy after I put in a new GTX 970. The motherboard and/or CPU were starting to go, so I replaced them with a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P and an AMD FX8320E. I'm running Windows 10 x64, I've got two Ballistix Sport 4GB sticks in the correct RAM slots all being powered by an Antec Earthwise 650W PSU. Everything reads out right in CPU-ID.

Now the problem: When I boot up the computer the first time in the day it almost ALWAYS freezes up before it gets to the windows log in screen. And when I say "freeze up" I mean "freeze up", the mouse sits dead center on a black screen but can't be moved, no keyboard strokes do anything, only thing to do is reset manually from the front switch. This usually happens again, only shortly after windows boots up, and sometimes it will happen a third time after about 1 minute after logging into Windows. It has never happened a fourth time, and after that the computer runs fine. I've had it on continuously for around 6 hours with constant use and no problems.

I have since tried formatting my windows drive and doing a clean install of Windows 10 to no avail.

Anyone have any ideas what's causing these strange freezes? Out of the 20 times I've turned it on this has happened I'd say 18 times, twice I was able to boot up without incident.

Thanks for reading! I hope you can help!

 

[smorizio]

if the mb was used make sure the cmos battery is fresh. if it weak it might not be holding the bios settings. make sure the mb has the newest bios file.
in the bios if there xmp or amd version of it turn it on make sure the ram speed is set right.
if the ram 1.5 or 1.65v?? if it 1.65v at it top speed make sure you add voltage to the ram so it run right.
make sure from amd web page you installed the newest chipset driversd for the 900 chipset.
if you have a lot of usb device connected one of them can hang new mb. make sure that at first boot only the keyboard and mouse is on. after windows power on you can then turn on printers and ext hard drives.

 

[Heydeeohred]

Ok I don't know if anyone is still reading this but I think I may have found the solution if any of you care. I stopped Steam from automatically starting up with Windows and so far I have not had any of these random freezes. TOTALLY WEIRD if you ask me...