steady oak
So the story starts here, oh boy you're in for a ride!
It all begins with me being given an rx 5700 non-xt a few days before christmas, i swap out my 1660 super and in goes my new fresh fully-working rx 5700! "Oh boy, now i can game even harder!" I though to myself, as i uninstall previous drivers, and install new drivers and load up my newly downloaded games and feel amazed by how smooth my gameplay is. Right up until i restart my computer.
After that all hell lets loose, apps can barely run without crashing after 5 minutes, BSOD's indicating a faulty driver or possibly, even faulty hardware. "Oh man, it can't be hardware right? I mean just half a year ago i got a new 7600x, 32 GB's of ram and a new fresh b650 motherboard, i mean, it has to be the GPU right?" I think to myself, and contemplate selling it and simply buying Intel's new b580 instead. "Gah, i probably installed something wrong." I thought. So i just reinstalled windows, redownloaded drivers and apps and game hard for another day. And another day goes by, not a single problem. But the next day isn't as smooth as the day before, no no no no no, i just so happen to get that instability again. "Aww shucks, what did i do now?" I ask myself. BSOD's show the same faults again, so i decided it was time to face the problem instead. I'll just run SFC and DISM and that'll fix it, right? WRONG. Seemingly all apps seem to have been screwed over (Except for morrowind, phew that game never goes bad), windows won't start without going through recovery first, im heartbroken by how one simple upgrade could cause such a downgrade on stability.
"Welp, i'll just reinstall again and see if any of this happens again, i suppose!" I reinstall, do everything as guides say, like install drivers in a specific order, remove different bloats from windows 10, and all is well, right up until today, 1 day of gaming and poof! all is done. Most recent 2 BSOD's indicate faulty ram and directx drivers being the culprit, god help me.