New gaming PC Help!!!

Oct 2, 2025
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Got the wild hair to build my first gaming PC spent $1k and got decent components. Got everything put together correctly booted up fine, loaded windows, no issues. Downloaded the amd graphics driver, steam, and I racing. (I did not download any other drivers like I was supposed to). The moment I plugged in the steering wheel and pedals for sim racing, the pc shut off and hasn’t been the same since. It will boot up but runs very slow and if I try to do anything other than internet it shuts down and re boots.

I tried to do a windows factory reset but it keeps shutting down before it finishes the reset. Tried this 5 times. I figure if I can start over and load the correct drivers it gives me a place to start.

Did something short out when I plugged in the wheel? Tried the wheel on the Xbox and it works fine.

Anybody got any ideas? Thank you for your time!
 
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