mattiemcdoink
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For the past several days now I've been trying to get my computer to work with a fresh install of Windows 8.1. I've clean installed several times but if I try to boot the computer with more than 1 of my i5's cores enabled in the BIOS, the computer will completely freeze usually shortly after login. Though sometimes I don't even get that far before it freezes. I've tried letting it go for as long as an hour and a half with no change and nothing responds when the freeze happens making me have to force the system to power off. Strangely enough, this does not happen when I have only 1 core of my processor enabled. Though this problem never happened in Windows 7, nor in the Ubuntu install that I dual booted with.
I've installed all drivers for my motherboard, my BIOS is at the latest version according to the manufacturer. All available Windows Updates have been installed, as have the latest display drivers for my video card. I've ran chkdsk on my drive which found no errors. I'm at my wit's end about this. I can't think of what this could be for the life of me. Especially not with this only manifesting in Windows 8 and not in either of the other two OSs I was using.
EDIT: Also, I apologize in advance if I don't have the right information for anyone to help me in here. This is one of my first times posting to a forum like this looking for help so I don't really know what would be helpful to include in this post.
I've installed all drivers for my motherboard, my BIOS is at the latest version according to the manufacturer. All available Windows Updates have been installed, as have the latest display drivers for my video card. I've ran chkdsk on my drive which found no errors. I'm at my wit's end about this. I can't think of what this could be for the life of me. Especially not with this only manifesting in Windows 8 and not in either of the other two OSs I was using.
EDIT: Also, I apologize in advance if I don't have the right information for anyone to help me in here. This is one of my first times posting to a forum like this looking for help so I don't really know what would be helpful to include in this post.
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Custom PC
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-3450
- Motherboard
- Biostar TZ77B
- Memory
- G-Skill F3-10666CL9D 16GB (2x8GB)
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 670
- Hard Drives
- Seagate ST1500DL003-9VT16L 1.5 TB
- PSU
- CoolerMaster RS700-PCAAE3-US 700W
- Browser
- Google Chrome
- Antivirus
- AVG AntiVirus FREE 2015