Here are the important specs:
CPU: FX8120 OC to 4.0Ghz
MB: ASUS M5-A88-M
RAM: 12gb of cheaper ram
GPU: MSI HD7950
HDDs: Western Digital Green 3tb, Western Digital Green 2tb
SSD: Kingston 120gb
So I have Windows 8.1 installed on Kingston. I signed up for Windows 10 Review, it download and I went thru the steps to install. Instead of a complete new install, it "upgraded" to 10. Almost like upgrading from 7 to 8, or 8 to 8.1. After it did its thing, it loaded to Windows 10. Suddenly the screen flashed terribly and I had lag on EVERYTHING. After only about 15secs it always restarted to a blue screen with an error message ( cant remember message). I looked it up and it was an incompatible video driver. Trust me, I had the newest AMD drivers. So I was finally able to revert back to 8.1. That's when the problems began.
Windows load times are SLOW.
If I click on internet, it sounds like my HDD spools up from sleep mode and its very slow. Once online, you can here my HDD "wake up" and it makes that "clicking" sound. Again, Windows in installed on SSD
Game loading times once were seconds and now minutes...and minutes....and minutes....
I have gotten ASUS error messages during start up ( again cant remember exactly) but one was that my CPU cant boot with current OC. I've had it set there for 2yrs now and no problem.
Have had random Windows pop-ups and errors but once I see them my computer crashes and restarts.
Something simple as right-clicking on and icon or whatever, you can here HDD spool up and has that "clicking" sound.
My question is, what the heck is going on? Is it Windows, bios, hardware?
Thank you community
CPU: FX8120 OC to 4.0Ghz
MB: ASUS M5-A88-M
RAM: 12gb of cheaper ram
GPU: MSI HD7950
HDDs: Western Digital Green 3tb, Western Digital Green 2tb
SSD: Kingston 120gb
So I have Windows 8.1 installed on Kingston. I signed up for Windows 10 Review, it download and I went thru the steps to install. Instead of a complete new install, it "upgraded" to 10. Almost like upgrading from 7 to 8, or 8 to 8.1. After it did its thing, it loaded to Windows 10. Suddenly the screen flashed terribly and I had lag on EVERYTHING. After only about 15secs it always restarted to a blue screen with an error message ( cant remember message). I looked it up and it was an incompatible video driver. Trust me, I had the newest AMD drivers. So I was finally able to revert back to 8.1. That's when the problems began.
Windows load times are SLOW.
If I click on internet, it sounds like my HDD spools up from sleep mode and its very slow. Once online, you can here my HDD "wake up" and it makes that "clicking" sound. Again, Windows in installed on SSD
Game loading times once were seconds and now minutes...and minutes....and minutes....
I have gotten ASUS error messages during start up ( again cant remember exactly) but one was that my CPU cant boot with current OC. I've had it set there for 2yrs now and no problem.
Have had random Windows pop-ups and errors but once I see them my computer crashes and restarts.
Something simple as right-clicking on and icon or whatever, you can here HDD spool up and has that "clicking" sound.
My question is, what the heck is going on? Is it Windows, bios, hardware?
Thank you community