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TL, DR: My newly-acquired Ryzen 5 3600+B450 Tomahawk platform freezes my SSD Windows 10 after about 5 minutes of use; the system is highly unstable. However, it works completely fine with my other OS installed in my HDD. On the other hand, SSD OS used to work fine with my previous i5 6600k. I've fresh-installed Windows 10 3x but the problem persists. What gives? Lords and ladies of the hardware realm, please help me!
The whole thing: I've got a huge problem. Ever since I bought my Ryzen 5 3600+MSI B450 Tomahawk combo (about 3 weeks ago), the platform and my 480GB SSD haven't been getting along well at all. The OS was highly unstable, kept hitching and the Internet connection was a no-go. At first, I thought it just needed a fresh Win 10 install, but then it worked fine with a friend's 1TB HDD (which I'm using now).
My previous platform was an i5-6600k and a Gigabyte Z170M-D3H. I was waiting for a new flash drive order to arrive, so I just kept using the HDD system and played the games previously installed in the SSD. It worked great.
Now the flash drive has arrived, and I decided to finally format the SSD and fresh-install Win 10 in it. Nothing improved. If anything, things are much worse now. What used to be a few 2-seconds-long hitches became full-fledged perma freezes, the mean kind, and sometimes the OS BSODs too, although that has only happened a couple of times.
The thing is, the SSD used to work perfectly with my 6600k system, but now the OS is behaving like this. And I find it strange that I can still play games installed in it while running Windows from the HDD, which makes me think that the problem is not with the SSD; I could be wrong, I don't know.
Oh, and there's more: while running HWinfo to monitor the parts, I noticed that only 2 CPU cores really work hard while the other 4 kind of idle there, the lazy gits. That doesn't happen in the HDD system, by the way.
I don't know what to do, guys. I've fresh-installed Windows 3 times tonight already, restarted the PC like a million times, and I can't seem to work on anything for more than 5ish minutes before the damn system freezes. I've been struggling with this for 4 hours now, and it's 4:28 am here in my country.
What could it be? Firmware? Power delivery? Memory? A naughty hardware-loving gremlin playing tricks? I'm out of ideas, please help me.
Specs are in the signature.
Cheers, folks! I hope you can give me some light!
George.
TL, DR: My newly-acquired Ryzen 5 3600+B450 Tomahawk platform freezes my SSD Windows 10 after about 5 minutes of use; the system is highly unstable. However, it works completely fine with my other OS installed in my HDD. On the other hand, SSD OS used to work fine with my previous i5 6600k. I've fresh-installed Windows 10 3x but the problem persists. What gives? Lords and ladies of the hardware realm, please help me!
The whole thing: I've got a huge problem. Ever since I bought my Ryzen 5 3600+MSI B450 Tomahawk combo (about 3 weeks ago), the platform and my 480GB SSD haven't been getting along well at all. The OS was highly unstable, kept hitching and the Internet connection was a no-go. At first, I thought it just needed a fresh Win 10 install, but then it worked fine with a friend's 1TB HDD (which I'm using now).
My previous platform was an i5-6600k and a Gigabyte Z170M-D3H. I was waiting for a new flash drive order to arrive, so I just kept using the HDD system and played the games previously installed in the SSD. It worked great.
Now the flash drive has arrived, and I decided to finally format the SSD and fresh-install Win 10 in it. Nothing improved. If anything, things are much worse now. What used to be a few 2-seconds-long hitches became full-fledged perma freezes, the mean kind, and sometimes the OS BSODs too, although that has only happened a couple of times.
The thing is, the SSD used to work perfectly with my 6600k system, but now the OS is behaving like this. And I find it strange that I can still play games installed in it while running Windows from the HDD, which makes me think that the problem is not with the SSD; I could be wrong, I don't know.
Oh, and there's more: while running HWinfo to monitor the parts, I noticed that only 2 CPU cores really work hard while the other 4 kind of idle there, the lazy gits. That doesn't happen in the HDD system, by the way.
I don't know what to do, guys. I've fresh-installed Windows 3 times tonight already, restarted the PC like a million times, and I can't seem to work on anything for more than 5ish minutes before the damn system freezes. I've been struggling with this for 4 hours now, and it's 4:28 am here in my country.
What could it be? Firmware? Power delivery? Memory? A naughty hardware-loving gremlin playing tricks? I'm out of ideas, please help me.
Specs are in the signature.
Cheers, folks! I hope you can give me some light!
George.
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