Swapped hard drive, unleashed world of trouble

[basiltomatoes12]

I had an old rig that I sold to my friend so he could play FortNite on good settings. Unfortunately the hard drive I purchased for him from Amazon wasn't compatible, so I took the 2 TB HDD from my current computer and put it in his. Even though windows was installed on my SSD, it wouldn't boot afterwards, so I was forced to do a fresh reinstall.

This is where it got bad. Basically after every full setup, I would have a short amount of time using the computer before it would freeze up. Completely, no response to any key commands like task manager, etc. and the only option was to restart. So I thought it was my SSD, went and bought a brand new WD 1 TB HDD, and the same thing happened. Since then, I've done 6 or so fresh installs of windows and nothing changes. I even updated my Bios inside the menu, unplugged and plugged all connectors back in, and nothing has changed.

My computer will randomly proceed to freeze, especially when I'm downloading things. It is most common when I'm downloading fortnite, or driver updates for my Motherboard/GPU using the discs that came with them. If I'm using just a web browser then there's not much of a problem, which is why I can type this out. But if I'm downloading anything, there will be a period where it will run fine for a few minutes, but will freeze afterwards. I got a couple of BSOD's, but not nearly as much as just plain screen freezing. I'm not sure if it's hardware failure at some point or drivers. I did the 'sfc/scannow' line in command prompt and it didn't come back with anything. I also set up a dump file, which only managed to catch one, which I believe was a BSOD. I tried also to change power settings, nothing happened there. I did a safe boot where it did not crash, but that was because I wasn't able to put any actual strain on the computer, so I'm not sure if that helped figure anything out.

I'm honestly not sure what to do now because I've exhausted all of the options I can think of.

System:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113429
GPU: AMD XFX RX 580 8GB https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06ZYB7TZ1/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Motherboard: ASUS Prime X-370 Pro https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132964
RAM: Team T-Force/Dark 16GB https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820313793
PSU: (kind of old) https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139021
HDD: WD Blue 1 TB

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

The only weak link on your setup is the PSU, so I would have that checked out to see if it's failing, probably it's not putting enough power through your pc, maybe the fan is failing so it's overheating. Have it checked out anyways or at least try it on another pc to see if it works normally.

 

[basiltomatoes12]

The only weak link on your setup is the PSU, so I would have that checked out to see if it's failing, probably it's not putting enough power through your pc, maybe the fan is failing so it's overheating. Have it checked out anyways or at least try it on another pc to see if it works normally.

Is a 750w PSU not strong enough for that setup? I've seen 1080s and 8700ks run off of like 800w psus. This is significantly less power intensive. Not to mention I was running an SSD and a 2TB HDD for 6 months with 0 issues regarding power.

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

The only weak link on your setup is the PSU, so I would have that checked out to see if it's failing, probably it's not putting enough power through your pc, maybe the fan is failing so it's overheating. Have it checked out anyways or at least try it on another pc to see if it works normally.

Is a 750w PSU not strong enough for that setup? I've seen 1080s and 8700ks run off of like 800w psus. This is significantly less power intensive. Not to mention I was running an SSD and a 2TB HDD for 6 months with 0 issues regarding power.

What I'm trying to say is that it may be failing and hence not outputting enough power, which could explain the freezes. Even a strong 800W PSU can fail and output less than a third of its designed output.

 

[basiltomatoes12]

The only weak link on your setup is the PSU, so I would have that checked out to see if it's failing, probably it's not putting enough power through your pc, maybe the fan is failing so it's overheating. Have it checked out anyways or at least try it on another pc to see if it works normally.

Is a 750w PSU not strong enough for that setup? I've seen 1080s and 8700ks run off of like 800w psus. This is significantly less power intensive. Not to mention I was running an SSD and a 2TB HDD for 6 months with 0 issues regarding power.

What I'm trying to say is that it may be failing and hence not outputting enough power, which could explain the freezes. Even a strong 800W PSU can fail and output less than a third of its designed output.

I'll give it a try, but it hasn't had any problems during other times before the freezes. However, looking at my available updates on windows, it's stuck at 18%, which makes me think certain drivers haven't been downloaded yet, which might be the cause for the crash. Is there a fix to that?

 

[basiltomatoes12]

Also, I took a look at the device manager, and saw these PCI Devices which also seem like an issue. Thoughts?
https://imgur.com/a/a8c7cgK

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

Also, I took a look at the device manager, and saw these PCI Devices which also seem like an issue. Thoughts?
https://imgur.com/a/a8c7cgK

Those seem like stuff you should've installed using the MB's installation CD/DVD. Stuff Win10 probably couldn't find on its own.
Take a look on the MB's official site and download all the drivers available and install them if you haven't already.