Very Frequent BSOD's on New PC

Hey there Brandon!

You didn't mess up at all! I'm so glad that you did all the updates by yourself, and succesfully! Wasn't difficult at all, was it? :)

About Rapid Storage, it doesn't matter much. It is a way that Intel has to use the storage, and it's basically an Intel complement. If I remember my first diagnostic, I saw that you had Intel Rapid Storage drivers (iaStorAC). Did you choose to disable it? Intel Rapid Storage may sometimes cause BSODs, so if you chose to use the AHCI standard, that's much better as for troubleshooting.

About AURA RGB, that's basically the lighting of your motherboard. Let's turn it off by now, just to troubleshoot where the issue comes from. You did well!

That's perfect, spend some time gaming and let me know how it goes! If I were you, I'd choose the power plan of High Performance if you haven't already. That will make your gaming experience much better :)

Let me know how it goes, and enjoy gaming! Best of luck!

Miguel Ángel :)

So I successfully updated my BIOS, and all of the other items you have recommended.

A few things threw me off, but it doesn't seem like I messed anything up.  Whenever I updated the SATA, it asked to switch to Intel Rapid Storage instead of AHCI, which I must have been using before.  I know nothing about this.

Also, whenever I updated my BIOS I did see AURA RGB in my BIOS was turned on.  I went ahead and turned it off.  Is there anything else I need to do to actually uninstall it like you mentioned above?

I will do some gaming this weekend and see if my PC crashes or not and let you know!

Perfect Brandon! Don't worry, it's all my pleasure as always.

Try it, and don't hesitate to get to me if you have any doubt at any point of the procedure. I'll keep an eye on the thread, so get to me whenever and I'll try to reply right away.

Hopefully, that'll solve the issue. Crossing fingers!

Best of luck once more,

Miguel Ángel :)

Thanks so much for the help Miguel, I will try doing everything and report back a little later today! :)

Don't worry at all Brandon! That's what I'm here for, and I'm sure you'll learn pretty much about it.

First of all, about the drivers, you can download all the drivers and install them. If any of them is already updated, the installation won't go on and it will tell you that "A newer version for this driver is already installed". So nothing bad with installing them all, just in case.

As for the BIOS update, I can understand it's a really scary thing to do and pretty serious, so I'll try to guide you along the process even though you'll see yourself how it is really easy, even for a lego person in the field. For that purpose, we'll use ASUS EZ Flash 3, and we'll follow a tutorial video so everything is clear during the easy process. If there is any error or anything comes up, don't worry at all (this motherboard has a BIOS restoring option: ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3).

You can find the visual steps to update your BIOS using ASUS EZ Flash 3 here: https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1012815 . Don't worry, it explains everything.

If there is something unclear, even though I don't think so, you can read your own motherboard's manual about updating BIOS: https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1200/P... (page 55 or 3-3 on ASUS EZ Flash 3).

It is not difficult at all and everything is really automatic, so don't worry.

Tell me how it goes, please, and don't worry at all! You got this.

Miguel Ángel :)

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