Hello, around 18 hours ago my computer suddenly randomly degraded significantly in general. I'll try to explain all the specifics of what happened. I'm leaning towards a graphics card or software issue at the moment but this is so general/random that I figured I'd post here. I'll also note that I was previously experiencing WHEA-Logger 18 errors on my CPU, and posted about CPU troubles here before, but that was a long time ago, and it had been running totally fine for months now without issue. However, this opens the possibility that an insidious CPU problem was hanging around or something... I guess just because the issues stopped happening for a bit doesn't mean they disappeared.
Right off the bat, specs are:
I started attempting to do diagnostics, with HwINFO 64, but I simply cannot get it to boot anymore. It always hopelessly hangs on the "Detecting ATA/SCSI Drives" step. I tried Googling this and found that it was usually an ASMedia drivers issue, but I don't have any ASMedia drivers installed so I seem unable to do the fix needed.
I also downloaded AMD Adrenalin to try to do driver updates, but the installer seems to be eternally stuck on "Checking your PC's hardware for driver and software compatibility..."
I'm wondering if all these signs point to a CPU failure, or a GPU/software failure.
One interesting thing is that I saw that the CurseForge software experienced a breach, where bad actors could push malware under the guise of "updates" to game addons published there. I DID download updates before learning about this, and not long before this all started happening, however, malware scans return no issues. Is it possible that my BIOS could have been tampered with in some way too?
Right off the bat, specs are:
- Mobo: MSI MAG X570S Tomahawk WiFi
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
- GPU: AMD Radeon 5700 XT
I started attempting to do diagnostics, with HwINFO 64, but I simply cannot get it to boot anymore. It always hopelessly hangs on the "Detecting ATA/SCSI Drives" step. I tried Googling this and found that it was usually an ASMedia drivers issue, but I don't have any ASMedia drivers installed so I seem unable to do the fix needed.
I also downloaded AMD Adrenalin to try to do driver updates, but the installer seems to be eternally stuck on "Checking your PC's hardware for driver and software compatibility..."
I'm wondering if all these signs point to a CPU failure, or a GPU/software failure.
One interesting thing is that I saw that the CurseForge software experienced a breach, where bad actors could push malware under the guise of "updates" to game addons published there. I DID download updates before learning about this, and not long before this all started happening, however, malware scans return no issues. Is it possible that my BIOS could have been tampered with in some way too?