My friend has been trying to play BF3 with me recently and has constant hard freezes. I went to look at his drivers in Device Manager and under System Devices it showed up as P55. This is a x58 board, is this normal?
No it isn't. Sounds like the wrong chipset driver was installed. I'm surprised the drivers installed and the system booted again after that. Download and install the correct ones.
Well I installed the drivers for that board from Intel's site. Before I did that the driver date was like '06(??), after the update it said '09, but still listed as P55. Very confusing to me.