I finally assembled my new home-made pc and during setup, I had various freezes when installing certain drivers like the Intel LAN or Logitech Gaming Software. In fact, I could not install those drivers at all.
After a lot of googling I found quite some people having the same problem and solving it with unplugging the DVD/Bluray from the ASMedia Sata3 port.
In fact, the same happened to me. After plugging it in into an Intel Sata3 port everything worked great. Afterwards, I installed the ASMedia Sata drivers, this might have also helped but I could not verify this yet.
So in case you have freezes in Windows, try installing ASMedia Sata drivers or just don’t use the ASMedia Sata ports at all (especially for optical drives).
Just for completeness my system stats:
- Intel Core i7 4790K BOX
- ASUS Z97-DELUXE
- 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro
- Samsung 850 Pro (256GB)
- WD Green (3000GB)
- ASUS GTX-970 STRIX
- Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit