Windows 10 freezes after minute of work, clean install

Leszek Pietrycki

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Hi.

I have received a new PC lately and I wanted to install Windows 10 on it.

It installed nicely, but it freezes every 2-3 minutes, requiring the manual restart, everything is unresponsive, it literally freezes. I have never had anything like this, especially with fresh install.
I have ryzen 1600
GTX 1060 6gb
B350 tomahawk mobo

In safe mode it works nicely without any problems.
 
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the heat, use msi afterburner and set a fan curve, try to set it at 40% at all the time, see hwat effect it has but if this doesn't happen on windows 7, the problem is a driver misbehaving under windows 10

it wouldn't harm to reinstall windows 10 from clean, can you try that?
hard disk or ram

do a test on both components, cristaldiskinfo for the hard disk and memtest for ram, if you find errors, change the part, apply warranty if available

if it works in safe mode, it could also mean that a driver for some part is messing up the system, have you updated bios on this new mainboard?
 
I booted up with a router in USB, freeze. Now I decided to boot without it, wait a minute, plug it in, just to see if it would freeze. It didn't. Now I am installing the drivers that came out with the mobo and the rest, let's hope this will fix everything.

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Sadly, after a while I got blue screen of death.
 
I did the ram test like you mentioned, no errors.

I also used that critical disk program, it showed 100% health on both drives

I installed the latest official bios update from MSI.

And guess what. Nothing. It still freezes.... And the weirdest part is, that his happens only on Windows 10. I installed Windows 7 earlier to see if it would behave the same way and there were no freezes. I am lost, srsly.
 
then all points to a faulty driver that is messing up your experience, this is a hard to discover situation, try as many different drivers on the mainboard as possible, if nothing works, consider a rma of the mainboard, get another model also could help, return of money in this case, depends on what you bougth and where you bought it
 
I also consider the heating management an issue. Yesterday, late evening there was a heatwave. I opened the case after bsod to check if maybe anything burned, and the GTX was hot, almost to the point where you can't stand the heat for more than a second. An funniest thing is, now while I write this, Windows installs the updates, and during the download it didn't freeze. So maybe I should use some custom fan setting?
I use Corsair carbide 100r the silent edition on full performance setting, I mean that button on the case which causes the PC to work louder or more quiet.
 
the heat, use msi afterburner and set a fan curve, try to set it at 40% at all the time, see hwat effect it has but if this doesn't happen on windows 7, the problem is a driver misbehaving under windows 10

it wouldn't harm to reinstall windows 10 from clean, can you try that?
 
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