You probably want to do steps in an order that start with the least time consuming task, and that will be:
- Get the S.M.A.R.T. data from your storage device and post it here. You can use several programs for that, like HDD sentinel, Crystaldiskinfo, etc. Copy the data and post it here.
- Try run a stress test (OCCT, Catzilla, etc). Watch temperatures and voltages (upload screen shot if out of ordinary)
- Test integrity of RAM. You'll use Memtest86+ for that.
- Then - if none of the mentioned test reveals anything wrong - you can try to reinstall Windows. Or - you may want to do this as the first step, especially if you have installed many programs. Remember backups first (old rumors say you may loose files upon windows install).
If none of the above steps make any differences, we have to try to start removing parts to see if any is responsible for the problem.
So, I downloaded HDD sent, and I don't really know what to do with it.
But I took this screenshot, from my SSD, and both my SSD and my 2 TB HDD has no problems and say its PERFECT.
My old 300 GB drive said that there are 6 bad sectors on it but the windows are on my SDD.
For the stress test, can't intel utility be used? because I never used OCCT etc or any of those before.
I used cinabench to see my benchmark and that is it.
HDD Sent pic:
View: https://imgur.com/cnDUSun
Also, I did overclock my new CPU to 4.8 GHz, but I never changed the voltage or anything, I just changed the multiplier and I enabled XMP and that is it.
And it was stable ever since I overclocked it.
For the meemtest, I never used it either so yeah.
EDIT:
I checked my event viewer and last 7 days it shows I have 5 critical errors or whatever, so I took this screenshot in case it helps.
View: https://imgur.com/De9s3Z5
ANOTHER EDIT: (Sorry)
So this picture is for the temp before running cinabench20 showing the voltages etc, I am not really sure what is normal voltage and what is not normal, some people might know about that more than me.
Picture before the run:
View: https://imgur.com/UoqMpQN
I ran the test, and the max temp I got was on the package which reached 64C and core 0 as well, but the rest of the cores were around 63-62 and there was no crashing.
The Package voltage max got 93.02W IA core 86.56W uncore 6.90W DRAM 2.45W.
Once the test finished my temp's dropped to the normal range which you can see in the picture before the run, I tried taking a picture right after the test has ended but the temp's dropped as soon as it ended so there was no use of me taking a picture.
But this picture will show the Max temp of the CPU and voltages etc.
View: https://imgur.com/Ri1WWkn