I have never been able to operation windows 8 on my desktop computer, always thought it was a hard drive issue 2 days ago I get a brand new HDD and SSD for main OS, and low and behold it is the same issue, every time I try to install windows 8 or 8.1 it either during or after the installation, it completely locks up, freezes, if I'm playing music it's stuck, can't move mouse, heck with my old hard drive, I literally pulled out my hard drive was looking at my hard drive in my hand and windows 8 on the screen, frozen, this seems too iffy to not be a coincidence, but I got windows 8 to work (magically) no idea how, and when I open device manager it says my PCI lan controller driver is missing, I went online and found it on gigabyte with my motherboard z68-d3-b3 and found the driver, tried installing it, FROZE, hard reset, tried installing again, FROZE, for as I went looking for a solution I came across an article that said do not update z68-d3-b3 bios to eufi, and of course I did about the time windows 8 came out, many people have had problems with the eufi update, but could this cause my computer to crash at completely random times? it's not my hard drives I know that for a fact, I took out my laptop HDD with windows 8.1 on it and I connected it to my desktop and it still froze, used 2 other HDD and 1 SSD with windows 8 and windows 8.1, I tried both pirated and legit copies, I have a key for win8 and win8.1 (just no CD) I am completely lost with this MOBO, windows 7 works perfectly fine zero problems, let me know if I can give any more information so we can try to fix this problem, I've looked all over the web, no one seems to have the same problem I saw posts that told be to turn off HPET, I did, no result. Saw a post to turn on Hyper-V in windows, I did just before it froze, no result. If there's anything you guys know please help, I'm in no way a noob with computers, I have been around and using them for 15 years now, software issues are no problem, but this has me stumped to no end.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- i7-2600k
- Motherboard
- z68-d3-b3
- Memory
- kingston 8gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA gtx 680
- Sound Card
- N/A
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Asus
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 1tb seagate - 750gbWDgreen - 120gb kingston SSD nowv300
- PSU
- LSP ultra 750W atx
- Case
- custom
- Cooling
- air
- Keyboard
- Razer blackwidow ultimate 2014 elite
- Mouse
- Logitech g600
- Internet Speed
- fiber optic fast
- Browser
- Chrome mostly
- Antivirus
- N/A