Sorry to hear you are not feeling well and also I apologize for cross posting but since I put in the link to the other forum I "assumed" that it was ok because I have mainly stuck with your advice. If I am out of line please tell me and I will change what I am doing.
As to the computer, I put it back together late yesterday and this morning I clean installed 1709 ( before I saw your post ). The install was a bit different than my original install to a clean SSD and it picked a generic name for my computer (which I changed afterwards) and also when I got to picking the SSD and deleting so I could do a clean install, it showed 4 partitions which I deleted all of them. But shouldn't it have only shown 2 ( system and C )? I did what you said about disabling windows updating drivers. I then proceeded to install the drivers that I downloaded from Gigabyte, chipset, audio, LAN, wireless, Bluetooth, NVIDIA graphics, etc.
Then windows started updating after connecting to my wireless. All seemed to go ok on the updates but after they finished, my wireless disconnected and then reconnected.
So then I used IE 11 to go to ninite.com and started downloading Chrome, VLC, Foxit reader, and MalwareBytes. It became very sluggish on Chrome and disconnected once but reconnected and the rest went pretty fast. Then at the end when I closed IE 11 it died and stayed that way until I clicked on disconnect and then clicked on reconnect.
Evidently they updated the BIOS while they were testing the MB to the latest BIOS F4.
I haven't gotten a lot installed yet nor have I connected to my networked computers yet. I haven't hooked up my SATA HDD yet either, I assume that I will have to reformat that won't I?