New build, problems

Liam* · 7 Jan 2014 at 12:13

Hi all I built my first PC on Saturday and have been playing games fine and everything was fast and fine for the past 3 days. However this morning I booted it up to down load skyrim and again everything was fine. Until about 1.45 hrs into the download everything on my PC was extremely slow and when it shut it down it would up just boot up without me saying so. And after leaving it for 15mins when I booted it up again it was still very slow and laggy?

Spec
Intel i5 4670k
Gigabyte g1.sniper z87
2x4gb teamgroup Vulcan orange ram
Cooler master 212 CPU cooler
Superflower golden green 650 w psu
Corsair carbide 300r windowed
Msi Radeon r9 280x
Windows 8.1
Samsung evo 840 120g SSD
2tb seagate barracuda hard drive
And a monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Liam* · 7 Jan 2014 at 12:58

ThaReaperGuy said:
Have you set the XMP in the bios for the RAM?
Was the OS installed to the SSD with the HDD taken out?

Haven't done anything with the bios and the OS was installed onto the SSD with the hard drive in.

Liam* · 7 Jan 2014 at 13:05

stulid said:
I ve read (so I do it) that disconnecting the HDD while installing the OS to the SSD will help prevent any random files being written to the HDD during the installation.

Oh well that's not great news then is there anything I can do to alter this now?

Liam* · 7 Jan 2014 at 13:08

stulid said:
Reinstall.

Doesn't take that long to do and as its a new build you cant have got too many games etc installed yet?

A few but would rather get it running smooth if it means deleting some. How do I go about reinstalling (sorry not the best with pcs at the moment)

Liam* · 7 Jan 2014 at 13:50

I'm also trying to shut it down but it keeps restarting itself, which is quite annoying. :mad:

Also just got a alert saying it's failing to connect to a windows service?

Liam* · 7 Jan 2014 at 14:09

Think I've fixed it now just pressed the reset button on the case now running as smooth as before and skyrim is downloading at a fast rate