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BSOD:s and instability on new motherboard (Gigabyte G1 Sniper 3)
Hi, a few weeks ago I purchased a Gigabyte G1 Sniper 3 along with an Intel i5 3570k. I wanted to try Windows 8.1 when I installed the new motherboard but when I installed drivers bsod:s and freezes occurred. I thought that perhaps everything wasn't optimized for the latest Windows and went back to Win 7. First I went to the official site and downloaded drivers but exactly the same thing started happening. Not having much to lose on my C: I reinstalled again and went to the supplied disc for drivers, for a while everything seemed to work but perhaps 2 days later the main issue resurfaced: bsod:s, freezing and just plain instability. Along the process I have memtested my memory, updated my BIOS to the latest (F8j), updated drivers from the Gigabyte site and Qualcom Atheros site (for the network card) and as I'm writing this I'm in a sort of safe boot (a bit more stable) from msconfig.exe. I have checked all temperatures and nothing is too high. My previous setup had all the same components except the motherboard + cpu and that system was rock solid (perhaps the cpu got a little warm but no crashes) with an older gigabyte am2+ matx board along with a Phenom II 3 ghz quad core.
Kind regards Zurtax
Last edited by Zurtax; 30 Oct 2013 at 14:50.