[SOLVED] I’ve recently updated my MB, CPU & RAM but now my games keep crashing basically on startup!

[ChristzZWeapon]

I’ve recently upgraded a lot of the components from my first gaming pc but since doing so my games keep crashing after a few minutes or just on startup.

I have an ASUS Prime Z390A Motherboard, an Intel I7 7700K and 16GB of Corsair Vengence RGB Pro at 3200 MHz.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Tom_nerd]

when it crashes what happens. does the game just exit and it goes back to the windows desktop, does the whole PC shutdown or does it just blue screen?

 

[ChristzZWeapon]

Crashes and goes back to desktop

 

[USAFRet]

All new system...did you do a full OS reinstall?
If not, there's the likely culprit.

 

[ChristzZWeapon]

I don’t think I did, how do you do that? Sorry not really very good at this

 

[USAFRet]

I don’t think I did, how do you do that? Sorry not really very good at this

If you had done it, you would know that you did it.
Like..."I ate dinner last night. Did I cook it or did someone else?"

Since there is ambiguity...you didn't.

A full OS reinstall requires some prep on your part.
You'll be starting from a blank slate. A bare OS.
You need all the drivers for your hardware, you need to document all your username/passwords for all your software, and all the sites you visit.
You need to save all of your personal docs to some other physical storage device.

Stuff like that.

 

[ChristzZWeapon]

Hey, I’ve looked for days on how to do this but I can’t find something that I understand well enough. Can anyone help?

 

[USAFRet]

Hey, I’ve looked for days on how to do this but I can’t find something that I understand well enough. Can anyone help?

How to do the OS reinstall?

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

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[ChristzZWeapon]

Yeah brilliant! Thanks