Hmmm.
I wonder if there is a memtest app for Windows.
Maybe you can install it without it making it reboot to make you use it?
After some googling memtesting from within windows won’t accurately do anything.
Ignore what I said.
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Is it possible, that my PSU is not doing great and it basically needs replacing? It’s 430W after all… Almost 5 years old.,…
Could be.
Only way to test will cost money.
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Any test will cost money 
…
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I’ve seen you still have problems with your pc 
what ram do you have and what clockspeeds does it run at and what is it rated for?
I had 3000mhz Corsair ram that would let my pc crash if I ran it above 2400mhz or it would freeze random and other strange stuff the the ryzen 1700x and the mainboard I have the x370f asus strix really didn’t like the ram. So I tested the ram with memetest86 and no error but under Windows crash or freeze etc I even replaced my 650 w seasonic gold psu because I thought maybe that was the problem but nope.
So I bought new Trident Z gskill amd tested ram that is running 3200 mhz no problems and no crashes now since 3 months I was so confused.
I’m gonna link the post I made on too , games crashed on me too with device removed errors ^^
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The ram is Crucial Ballistix Elite 4x4GB 2666 running at 2666. The ram is in the motherboard QVL list and that’s the reason I got it.
The system doesn’t freeze once in Windows. It freezes in BIOS or during boot…
My keyboard died, a mechanical keyboard, so I took my old keyboard and plugged it in. Today I had the same issue. It didn’t boot up until the 4-th try…
I have absolutely no idea what to do.
I have a plan to buy new PSU and just one stick of different ram and see… I just hope it’s not my CPU cause I can’t afford anything even close to it…
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If it’s the cpu, is it too late to get a refund?
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I bought it used…
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Oh yeah. That’s right.
Right… I tried the BIOS switch on the GPU and I had a sneaking suspicion, the issues may come from me having a multimonitor setup, but it’s not that either…
So all I am left to do is get a new PSU and if that don’t work out I’m selling this GPU and getting another one…
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Right. I just ordered gold rated 650W Seasonic PSU and let’s see how will that do.
I have a question to yall. If it is not the PSU I’m considering changing the motherboard or the GPU. The two of them dont play well together.
Is the motherboard a better idea to switch, since I risk ram incompatibility and bunch of other stuff…
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That depends on what speed you are running your RAM at. The board is probably cheaper to switch. 
I know there are a lot of horror stories regarding RAM and Ryzen out there but it’s not that bad when we just accept that xmp profiles simply don’t work.
Let’s hope for now that the PSU solves the problem. I wish you the best of luck, you deserve it!
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Boot off of a USB, check the disks, and run diag through linux or the like from the USB to see if there are any peripheral problems is where I would start if resetting and flashing doesn’t work. fdisk, chkdsk, etc … Flashing to latest bios is always a good start, and if that doesn’t work, remove the battery and power for 24 hours, then have a look, usually it is a CMOS corruption from dirty power, in my experience, from what you describe. But above, if those two don’t work, boot from a USB and check all your I/O and components.
My issues are entirely during boot. I had freezes in BIOS. I dare not try…
They are fine. I checked them billion times. Also they were running fine on my older system… I checked 2 weeks ago.
The warranty service did that…
Tried it … no results…
2666… That’s not that big of an issue, I will gladly run them on 2400 of that will solve the issue. But it doesn’t. I tried.
No… I don’t use that, I don’t know how, I rather not touch it.
The motherboard is fine. I send it back for warranty check, the guys told me it’s working fine. The GPU is fine. I checked on my old machine while the board was at warranty service. The GPU is just fine.
It’s just during boot.
I’ll try the PSU tomorrow and we shall see from there.
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This is really weird.
I’m still thinking about what the issue could be.
But most things are already tried.
Does the bios also freezes wenn you disconnect all other devices except your gpu?
I mean disconnect all drives and usb io devices you dont need.
So only the gpu and keyboard.
Also disconnect the front case usb header from the motherboard if you have front ports in your case.
If the front usb ports of your case are damaged, then all sorts of weird freezes will happen.
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Happy new year, wish you and your horse a great year ahead 
Here’s my issue with absolutely every other theory, other than a PSU:
- The board works fine with other components.
- The GPU works fine on another system.
- This system works fine with another GPU…
So it can’t be the USB ports… CPU and RAM was just fine before I switched the GPU…
That’s random… Sometimes it doesn’t freeze. Yesterday I walked around the BIOS to check the boot order. A few days ago I tried to set the ram speed to 2400 to try and see if it will work…
But a few days before that it froze when I just entered boot order, so I couldn’t press down and enter in time…
Really? Hmm… I will check that tomorrow… I need to let the system rest while I’m at work. Restarting will just bring me back into Windows…
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Is your SSD fine? I remember you talking about it having problems in the lounge back in November I think.
My SSD was my initial theory… I checked the hell out of it… I tested it on different system as well… The drives are fine.
All components are working fine on another system, They just don’t want to work together.
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Thanks happy new year to you too.
And i really hope you get your issue fixed.
But yeah it does sound really weird and spooky.
The motherboard is probably cheaper to replace.
If you are convinced that the gpu and all your drives are fine.
Then i would probably replace the motherboard firstly really.
But yeah also disconnect the front case usb header from the board.
And see if that makes any differences.
Since Asrock claims they have tested the board.
I would assume that they only tested it on a test bench.
But if one of the usb ports on your case is bad then yeah…
Usb shortages will lead to randomly weird freezes.
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