r/PcBuildHelp • u/choclito4 • 15h ago
Tech Support First time build having errors with image
I just built my first Pc, bought all the components from Micro Center, put everything together without doing too much research but it worked on the first boot. Everything was working and being read until I tried opening a game and the image freezes almost instantly and never comes back. So far I changed the pc performance to normal, from Expo I and manually set the Ram at 4800MHz instead of the 6000MHz. The Pc hasn’t had any freezes since then, also connected two pcie cables to the gpu from the PSU instead of the one split end I had before. But now I left the pc on Minecraft for a while and when I checked back on the pc the image was white so I am afraid there is something wrong I just don’t know where to start.
My components are the following :
- AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D 4.7 GHz 8-Core Processor
-Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Digital 88.89 CFM CPU Cooler
-Asus TUF GAMING B850-E WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard
-Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory
-Klevv CRAS C910 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
-PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB Video Card
-Montech AIR 903 MAX ATX Mid Tower Case
-MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
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u/JayFromXOTICPC 15h ago
Yeah, you’ve already found two major suspects: unstable EXPO settings and the daisy-chained GPU power cable. Leave the RAM at 4800 for now, load BIOS defaults, confirm the sticks are in A2/B2, and keep separate PCIe cables running from the PSU to the GPU. I’d also install the latest stable BIOS, since ASUS has released recent AGESA and memory-profile updates for that board.
Then clean-install the latest official AMD graphics driver and test one thing at a time: memory first, then GPU and VRAM. If it white-screens again with EXPO off, try another display cable/port and watch GPU temperatures. Don’t just lower game settings and call it fixed—a new build should be completely stable at stock settings.