Hello, I am earnestly asking for any help anyone can give me here. This problem has skyrocketed into many hours and days of frustration and exhaustion. For reference, I have been more than 10 computers in the last 15 years and am an enthusiast. I decided to upgrade some components, primarily GPU recently and it has turned into a never-ending nightmare. Below I will list the components and ALL the issues I have and what I have already tried to do to fix them:
B760 Elite AX Motherboard aorus (Gigabyte) [new component]
RTX 4070 Ti [new]
i5 13600kf [new]
Hyper 212
750cxm psu corsair
2x16 vengeance ddr5 [new]
980 pro 1tb Samsung (m.2 nvme is in the correct slot closest to the cpu)
Day 1:
Computer won't turn on. Can not figure out why. All connections are right. I reseat RAM, CPU, and do the paperclick trick (psu is fine). After pushing in the power switch two pin connector from the case it turned on. I thought that's all it was. That was not it.
After the computer turns on, I update everything, the chipset, the bios, wifi, gpu, everything.
Day 2:
After setting RAM to xmp and VERY conservatively overclocking with msi afterburner which I have experience doing with two other cards, I get three different error messages and bsods and freezing up during gameplay and also just browsing. All three errors are relating to hardware issues. I think it is the overclock and so I turn it down. Keeps happening. Turn it down, keeps happening. REMOVED THE ENTIRE OVERCLOCK BACK TO DEFAULT, KEEPS HAPPENING.
Day 3:
Read about how some motherboards do badly with the default settings for xmp so I disable xmp and decide I will fiddle with the ram manually later. To my sad surprise, the freezing keeps happening. Now my mouse and keyboard and all other usb and bluetooth devices randomly disconnect.
Day 4:
I run sfc /scannow and it does find and repairs some corrupted files. I think maybe that's all it was. I start going down the whole list of components, running memtest which returned 0 errors, testing the cpu, and gpu, and hard disk for errors, just to be sure. all seems fine. I start playing halo infinite and even though I seemingly have 140 fps, it feels choppy and awful. I exit the game and a new problem emerges. when I open file explorer, it seems delayed, taking about 4 or 5 seconds. I start to notice that anything I open, no matter what it is, is delayed. when I type, sometimes it lags and hickups for a few seconds. so I think it is the ssd. I check with samsung magician and on a 980 pro it says the read and write speed is less than 300. that's my problem! my ssd is degraded or failing for some reason. (it's not, I believe it is the connection on the mobo and not the ssd itself)
Day 5:
I get new 1tb drive (wd sn850x) and replace it in the m.2 slot closest to the cpu to start the process of downloading windows and everything else. THE COMPUTER NOW WILL NOT TURN ON. Back to square one. I check the psu with the paperclip trick, it is fine. I use different psu and connectors to see if that is it, nothing. I change the outlet it is getting power from, nothing, I check the possibly loose power switch connector again nothing. now here is where it gets strange. when my arm brushes against the 24 pin connector, the computer TURNS ON, without me pressing anything, although there is no signal to the peripherals or display. I can not recreate that since. ANOTHER STRANGE THING, I at one time slightly loosened one of the screws on the mobo thinking the seating was wrong even though I had already checked that, and the computer turned on again. Again, I could not recreate that again.
Day 6:
Finally, after testing everything and ruling out almost everything, I just have come to the conclusion that the motherboard might be faulty. I have ordered another one hoping that is all it is and that my problems will dissapear.
I know this is a lot to read and help with but please someone that has experienced anything like this or can at least reaffirm my idea as to the bad mobo or some other idea, I would really appreciate the help! I am at a loss and feeling very frustrated. THANK YOU.
B760 Elite AX Motherboard aorus (Gigabyte) [new component]
RTX 4070 Ti [new]
i5 13600kf [new]
Hyper 212
750cxm psu corsair
2x16 vengeance ddr5 [new]
980 pro 1tb Samsung (m.2 nvme is in the correct slot closest to the cpu)
Day 1:
Computer won't turn on. Can not figure out why. All connections are right. I reseat RAM, CPU, and do the paperclick trick (psu is fine). After pushing in the power switch two pin connector from the case it turned on. I thought that's all it was. That was not it.
After the computer turns on, I update everything, the chipset, the bios, wifi, gpu, everything.
Day 2:
After setting RAM to xmp and VERY conservatively overclocking with msi afterburner which I have experience doing with two other cards, I get three different error messages and bsods and freezing up during gameplay and also just browsing. All three errors are relating to hardware issues. I think it is the overclock and so I turn it down. Keeps happening. Turn it down, keeps happening. REMOVED THE ENTIRE OVERCLOCK BACK TO DEFAULT, KEEPS HAPPENING.
Day 3:
Read about how some motherboards do badly with the default settings for xmp so I disable xmp and decide I will fiddle with the ram manually later. To my sad surprise, the freezing keeps happening. Now my mouse and keyboard and all other usb and bluetooth devices randomly disconnect.
Day 4:
I run sfc /scannow and it does find and repairs some corrupted files. I think maybe that's all it was. I start going down the whole list of components, running memtest which returned 0 errors, testing the cpu, and gpu, and hard disk for errors, just to be sure. all seems fine. I start playing halo infinite and even though I seemingly have 140 fps, it feels choppy and awful. I exit the game and a new problem emerges. when I open file explorer, it seems delayed, taking about 4 or 5 seconds. I start to notice that anything I open, no matter what it is, is delayed. when I type, sometimes it lags and hickups for a few seconds. so I think it is the ssd. I check with samsung magician and on a 980 pro it says the read and write speed is less than 300. that's my problem! my ssd is degraded or failing for some reason. (it's not, I believe it is the connection on the mobo and not the ssd itself)
Day 5:
I get new 1tb drive (wd sn850x) and replace it in the m.2 slot closest to the cpu to start the process of downloading windows and everything else. THE COMPUTER NOW WILL NOT TURN ON. Back to square one. I check the psu with the paperclip trick, it is fine. I use different psu and connectors to see if that is it, nothing. I change the outlet it is getting power from, nothing, I check the possibly loose power switch connector again nothing. now here is where it gets strange. when my arm brushes against the 24 pin connector, the computer TURNS ON, without me pressing anything, although there is no signal to the peripherals or display. I can not recreate that since. ANOTHER STRANGE THING, I at one time slightly loosened one of the screws on the mobo thinking the seating was wrong even though I had already checked that, and the computer turned on again. Again, I could not recreate that again.
Day 6:
Finally, after testing everything and ruling out almost everything, I just have come to the conclusion that the motherboard might be faulty. I have ordered another one hoping that is all it is and that my problems will dissapear.
I know this is a lot to read and help with but please someone that has experienced anything like this or can at least reaffirm my idea as to the bad mobo or some other idea, I would really appreciate the help! I am at a loss and feeling very frustrated. THANK YOU.
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