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Is my Gigabyte otherboard just too old for Windows 10/Anniversary ???
I running a Gigabyte EP45-UD3R, and am having a lot of freezing, or Blue screens (rarely seems to be the same blue screen).
Power off and reboot is required the majority of the time.
A new EVGA GTX 950 card was installed hoping that would end my misery, but no.
With the help of forum members (many thanks) I have installed a fresh copy of Win 10 using a downloaded ISO file.
I have been operating without any other software. Not even E-mail. I come back to this Forum to check for responses. Begrudgingly after more issues I reinstalled my Norton utilities, it found no registry issues, but corrected DLL's. Later I added MalwareBytes. SFC, and DISM are both 100% clean. Things always seem ok for hours then the problems comes right back. The Anniversary update downloaded, and the cycle repeated.
Last evening after downloading an application from Crucial (Crucial Storage Executive) I was able to update my SSD drive firmware from M01 to M04. At first I was ok, but hours later the system started to convulse with rapid fire BSOD, and ended up with a Blue Screen I was unable to get around as file corruption was so bad.
I reinstalled another fresh copy of Win 10 (don't know what was worse waiting for the install to complete or watching the Presidential debate).
So sitting here pulling my hair out I just had the random thought that I cannot answer, (and there is no information on the Gigabyte web site): I wondered "Is my Motherboard just too old ?
I hope not as a new motherboard means a new processor, and new memory as It's just not a good time !
Personally I would have thought that if my Motherboard was too old it would not run at all, but hey what do I know ?
Last edited by smalltown; 27 Sep 2016 at 11:46.