Question I've been having some strange occurrences happening with my PC. What do you guys think could be the culprit?

[Faibra]

I've been having some weird occurrences with my new PC that I built. When I was trying to update the BIOS for my motherboard from version 1.7 to version 1.8, my PC reached the bios settings as usual showing the recent version number. But when I turned off my PC to remove the USB drive that had the bios update and replace it with another USB drive with the Windows installation, my PC would not boot up and there was a solid red and yellow light on my motherboard. I contacted MSI for support and they told me that I might have possibly bricked my motherboard. They told me to remove the Cmos battery first to see if that would fix the issue. I did as instructed and removed the CMOS battery and make sure to wait at least 5 minutes before putting it back in. When I put the CMOS battery back into the motherboard and turned on my PC, it booted up to the bios settings as normal and it showed the recent version number at the top right of the screen, so I did not have to reinstall the bios update again. I installed Windows afterwards and it seems like the PC is running normal. But there are some things that concern me. One of the things that concern me is that sometimes the CPU fans get very loud in certain situations. Normally this wouldn't bother me too much for really intense programs, but even during simple downloads like downloading an application it will get very loud. I don't remember the CPU fan getting this loud on my older PC, which used the default cooler that came with the Intel i3-9100f. I'm using the Thermalite Peerless Assassin 120 SE as my cooler alongside the Ryzen 5 7600X for my CPU. I don't know if this is considered normal and it is the 7600X that is causing the fans to run louder, or if it is the Thermalite PA 120 SE that is causing this. I don't know if this is a CPU related issue, a cooler related issue, a motherboard related issue, or maybe even my motherboard potentially damaging one of the components. I'm not so sure. The only reason why I'm considering this is because I've been having other issues regarding my PC. Recently I tried using a system restore point because I believed that potentially one of the apps on my computer wasn't behaving quite as well as it did before Windows applied an automatic update. So I wanted to use a system restore point to restore my PC before the automatic update. When I did this I received the blue screen of fail message that said that My PC had to restart,

https://imgur.com/a/KR006uR

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When it reach 100% and my PC restarted it reached the same message again. After it completed again I received this message,

https://imgur.com/a/KR006uR

View: https://imgur.com/a/KR006uR
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When I clicked restore it finally reached Windows and it seems that it reverted to the previous version. It seems that restoring to the previous point did not solve the app issue I had, so I wanted to reverse the system restore and go back to the updated version. So when I tried to reverse the decision I went through the exact same process again. I reached the blue screen of fail screen two times in a row before being met by the other screen saying that Windows couldn't load correctly, and it booting back to windows. But this time it took a lot longer to reach windows. I think it took at least over 5 minutes while the last time it was under 5 minutes if I'm not mistaken. I don't know if my motherboard was damaged or if this is some other issue with my PC. What do you guys think? I can still return my motherboard if I choose to, but I'm worried if maybe the other components were damaged if my motherboard is the problem. Do you think the motherboard initially not being able to boot to the bios settings after the bios update when I turned off my PC is an indicator that the motherboard is damaged in some way? How do you know if the motherboard has damaged any other components in a PC?

 

[Lutfij]

Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model.

If you're able to get back into BIOS, can you verify which BIOS version you're on at this moment? Recreate the bootable USB installer using Windows Media Creation Tools(using another system) and then try and reinstall the OS. While you're recreating the bootable USB installer on a donor system, you should also download all drivers necessary for your platform and have them in a folder and onto a thumb drive. Once the OS is installed in offline mode, manually install all drivers in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

 

[Faibra]

Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model.

If you're able to get back into BIOS, can you verify which BIOS version you're on at this moment? Recreate the bootable USB installer using Windows Media Creation Tools(using another system) and then try and reinstall the OS. While you're recreating the bootable USB installer on a donor system, you should also download all drivers necessary for your platform and have them in a folder and onto a thumb drive. Once the OS is installed in offline mode, manually install all drivers in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600X
CPU cooler: Thermalright peerless assassin 120SE
Motherboard: MSI Pro B650M-A Wifi
Ram: CORSAIR Vengeance DDR5 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL30 Intel XMP iCUE Compatible Computer Memory
SSD/HDD: SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD 1TB and TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan 500GB SATA SSD
PSU: Corsair RM750x
Chassis: Corsair 4000D Airflow
OS: Windows 10 version 22H2
Monitor: Dell 144Hz Gaming Monitor FHD 24 Inch Monitor

 

[Lafong]

Have you been keeping track of temperatures?

I don't see any mention of them in your post, despite complaints about fan noise.

 

[Faibra]

Have you been keeping track of temperatures?

I don't see any mention of them in your post, despite complaints about fan noise.

I notice that the cpu cooler fans get really loud when I'm downloading games and other intensive tasks. I did a test wehre I ran windows defender to search for viruses and the highest cpu utilization was 98% and the highest cpu temp was 89.6 degrees. I don't know if that is considered normal or not.

 

[Faibra]

I notice that the cpu cooler fans get really loud when I'm downloading games and other intensive tasks. I did a test where I ran windows defender to search for viruses and the highest cpu utilization was 98% and the highest cpu temp was 89.6 degrees. I don't know if that is considered normal or not. I'm going to see how the coolers sound when I play Doom, which I remember made a lot of noise on my old PC.

 

[Faibra]

Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model.

If you're able to get back into BIOS, can you verify which BIOS version you're on at this moment? Recreate the bootable USB installer using Windows Media Creation Tools(using another system) and then try and reinstall the OS. While you're recreating the bootable USB installer on a donor system, you should also download all drivers necessary for your platform and have them in a folder and onto a thumb drive. Once the OS is installed in offline mode, manually install all drivers in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

When you're talking about the drivers are you referring to things like AMD Adrenalin for AMD users for example? Would all other drivers that are Windows related be applied automatically?

 

[Lutfij]

The reason OS is automatically downloading and installing drivers is the issue, you need to remove the drivers for your GPU using DDU but I've stated reinstalling your OS in offline mode and then manually installing all drivers for your platform.