Much needed PC Upgrade

Ammeg · 5 Jan 2018 at 00:58

Yeah... sending the ryzen back. You are the only person who spotted that and I have never not used intel so didn’t know they don’t mix haha.

But got issues... pc will either turn on and stay on bios splash screen or not power on at all. Any ideas what could be wrong?

orbitalwalsh · 5 Jan 2018 at 07:24

Ammeg said:
Yeah... sending the ryzen back. You are the only person who spotted that and I have never not used intel so didn’t know they don’t mix haha.

But got issues... pc will either turn on and stay on bios splash screen or not power on at all. Any ideas what could be wrong?

Only new things are the case, PSU and water unit ?
Both PCs or just one ?

Was every component taking out when moving or did you transfer board over with CPU and ram still installed ?

8 pin CPU plugged in ?

Ammeg · 5 Jan 2018 at 09:13

orbitalwalsh said:
Only new things are the case, PSU and water unit ?
Both PCs or just one ?

Was every component taking out when moving or did you transfer board over with CPU and ram still installed ?

8 pin CPU plugged in ?

Case, psu, water unit and gfx card
Only managed to do my pc.
Everything was taken apart then moved except ram.
Can only find 4 pins for my cpu.

Bios reset hasn’t worked, nor has restarting the whole process, by removing everything and starting again.

nzaptx · 5 Jan 2018 at 09:20

You may need to update the motherboard BIOS for it to work with nvidia 10 series GPU's. The freeze on BIOS splash screen is a common issue with these boards. (ivybridge ones)

An easy way to test is to remove GPU and connect motherboard

orbitalwalsh · 5 Jan 2018 at 09:41

^^^^ solid advice - sorry GPU replacement flew over my head in your shopping list
what board do you have ?

im guessing your partners PC was fine with the transplant as you've only upgraded one GPU ?

Ammeg · 5 Jan 2018 at 10:12

nzaptx said:
An easy way to test is to remove GPU and connect motherboard

Ok removing gfx card worked but now I need to figure out how to update my bios xD

Ammeg · 5 Jan 2018 at 10:13

orbitalwalsh said:
im guessing your partners PC was fine with the transplant as you've only upgraded one GPU ?

Due to my panic not done his transplant yet haha

orbitalwalsh · 5 Jan 2018 at 10:16

Ammeg said:
Ok removing gfx card worked but now I need to figure out how to update my bios xD

whats your board?

should be able to go to vendor website and download to a USB stick - some boards can flash it on without having a CPU in

also dieing to see how the build look like !!

Ammeg · 5 Jan 2018 at 10:22

It’s gigabyte g1 sniper m3

Ammeg · 5 Jan 2018 at 10:36

Ok updating bios now! Doing it from f5 to f10 and I did it via bios run on pc as don’t have a clue where my usb stick is xD

orbitalwalsh · 5 Jan 2018 at 10:38

Ammeg said:
Ok updating bios now! Doing it from f5 to f10 and I did it via bios run on pc as don’t have a clue where my usb stick is xD

its not the best method doing that way, have done it in the past, and is the method that fails and screws it up.
But you've got a gigabyte board and if worst comes to pass, Gigabyte UK RMA team can flash it to recover for you

touch wood!

Ammeg · 5 Jan 2018 at 11:42

All worked

Gfx card even updated itself :O I was trying to find drivers and then it was like "Excuse me! I'm up to date!" XD

hahaha... hard to see what it looks like though because it's glass xD That light is actually green too!

tamzzy · 5 Jan 2018 at 11:45

looking good, but the table's a mess

Ammeg · 5 Jan 2018 at 11:53

Hahah yeah I have a small child so getting things out of her way means my desk is usually a mess xD

Another question what could be causing my disk to be between 97% and 100% it's saying "System" but it's 0.4% of the usage.

Still getting the issue of when I turn the pc off it’s not actually turning off too. Arrrrrgh.

tamzzy · 5 Jan 2018 at 12:07

windows defender seems a likely culprit, i must say
or is the computer doing a windows update?

Ammeg · 5 Jan 2018 at 12:13

tamzzy said:
windows defender seems a likely culprit, i must say
or is the computer doing a windows update?

No update, windows defender is on but not scanning or working properly. Should I turn it off? If so what should I put in its place?

tamzzy · 5 Jan 2018 at 12:16

Ammeg said:
Should I turn it off?

no don't turn it off.
suggest you try disconnecting the computer from the internet momentarily. if disk activity drops, then it's something downloading/uploading. at least then we can exclude sources outside of the computer

Ammeg · 5 Jan 2018 at 12:31

That is it without internet on

tamzzy · 5 Jan 2018 at 12:43

hmmm...not too certain...looks like windows doing something i think

Ammeg · 5 Jan 2018 at 12:55

Do you think it might be my hdd?

it's doing this one I troubleshoot: