Computer freezing/blue screening after installing windows 10

Specs:

Windows 10 Home CPU: AMD FX 4200 GPU: MSI Twin Frozor Gaming GeForce GTX 750 w/ 2gb VRAM Memory: 2 Wintec One 4gb Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46

Backstory:

My computer is old. My sister’s fiancé had always been a computer guy and he basically built this PC for me so I honestly don’t know much about PCs except how to put one together and take it apart. When we built it, we put windows 7 on it. Fast forward to thanksgiving and I decide I want to get windows 10. I tried to upgrade it months ago when Microsoft gave it out for free but it crashed constantly. I don’t remember the details so I’m not sure if it’s doing what it did then. Anyway after reverting back to windows 7 it basically deleted my oem and said the key was fake. So fast forward to thanksgiving and I purchase a windows 10 key off of kinguin and make a boot disk on a flash drive from the iso on Microsoft’s website. I format my drives just so I could start fresh and after all the setup I have a new copy of windows 10!

Symptoms:

I said blue screen/freezing because I only saw the windows 10 blue screen once but I still thought it would be worth mentioning. Basically every 15 minutes-2 hours my computer freezes. The screen stops in its place and there is nothing moving on the screen. This next part may be a small detail but it’s the thing that jarred me the most. My rgb lights on my keyboard also freeze! I have a razer blackwidow chroma and I keep it on a wave function where a rainbow light patter sweeps across the keyboard from right to left. But whenever my computer freezes, those lights also freeze in their place! This suggested to me that it at least isn’t a graphics problem. The freezes also for as long as I can tell are active until the computer is restarted by holding down the power button. I know almost for sure that they don’t ever fix themselves because once I left my computer on and left the house for a few hours I’d say around 4 o’clock. I came back at ~7 o’clock and the screen was frozen, keyboard lights were frozen and the time on the screen said something like 4:12. All of this only started as soon as I installed windows 10 but I’m so sure if that’s purely a coincidence or not.

I know that’s a lot of rambling but I’m trying to explain in as much detail as possible.

Please help!

Submitted December 30, 2017 at 10:34AM by LikeLarry http://ift.tt/2zOAWlB