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I recently upgraded my motherboard and processor after a slight fault with my old one. My old board and processor both served me very well, (A Megabyte 880G series MoBo and an AMD Athlon II X6 1090T Processor), two years worth of use was fantastic.

I have now upgraded to an ASUS M5A78L-M motherboard, with an AMD FX 6100 Black Edition processor, and I am experiencing the strangest kinds of latency.

Despite all six cores being recognised and (for the most part) rather relaxed, starting new programs or trying to do anything that requires them actually functioning beyond their previously idle state causes the program, and occasionally others to just freeze up, and prevent me from using them. This seems especially present in games, too, making them completely unplayable after this installation.

I have gone into Safe Mode numerous times, done a clean boot to find no issues whatsoever. Removing my services seems to also mildly fix this issue (At least in terms of how frequently it happens), but no amount of attempting those kinds of fixes seems to make anything actually change.

Does anyone have any clue at all how I might go about fixing this, or what might be causing it?
 
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Oh wow was I supposed to? I have this major issue with re-installing Windows because I technically have a copy of Windows 7, but it's rather fiddley to reinstall..

See my Operating System started as Windows XP, and I used a Windows 7 upgrade pack to turn mine into Windows 7 64-bit.
 
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Yes, you have to. You upgraded from a Gigabyte mobo + phenom 2 x6 to a asus + fx proc. As such it causes weird things to occur because windows grabs the proprietary mobo/chipset/etc drivers when its going through the install process.
 
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How would be a good way for me to go about doing that, considering what situation I'm in?

If I get a copy of a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit disk, would it install a fresh copy properly over my current installation without me needing to enter a seperate product code?
 
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You will need a valid product key. As Mouse24 explained you changed to a different setup and now none of your drivers are correct. I'm surprised Windows even boots to be honest. If you have a valid, legal key you can contact Microsoft for help if you are having problems making it work. You can also buy an OEM copy that will be tied to your motherboard for $99 from just about anywhere as well.
 
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I do have a valid product key, but my only issue is that I've already installed the motherboard drivers for my new board, surely that should have fixed this issue? The disk it came with should have fixed all of that.
 
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No. It will fix some things but you will need to do a clean install to have it work correctly. Windows detects your hardware and sets up accordingly on install. All your initial drivers and registry settings are for an 880G chipset/1090T setup. As I said, I'm surprised it even boots. The only reason it does is you went from AMD to AMD.
 
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It's not letting me submit a support ticket because it says my Product ID for my operating system has expired.. Naturally I can't call today because it's Good Friday (Since I think actually physically speaking to someone at Microsoft might be alot more fruitful), to it seems I'm just stuck for the time being, unless anyone else has any suggestions at all I can to do try and repair this?
 
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...Hm, it seems my Windows upgrade disk doubles as a Windows 7 disk, that I have now been able to use to reinstall my Operating System.

It's got rid of everything in windows, program files x86 and Program files, and pretty much started from scratch. This old data is now in windows.old (Which has also preserved my user data, THANK GOD.)

Now I am stuck in a horrible position where THIS SEEMS TO HAVE NOT FIXED MY PROBLEM. Words cannot express how frustrated I am getting with this now..
 
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Save everything you need to save somewhere else. External drive, burn to disk etc. Then do a clean install including formatting the disk. That should fix it. You should be able to do it with your upgrade disk.
 
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I am officially going to close the thread because I have found the solution! And hilariously it came from me, despite coming to talk to you (EXTREMELY HELPFUL) people about it!

It turns out, after much deliberation through the manual of my new motherboard, it seems my old RAM is not compatible with the board, meaning it was not able to access it more than through just basic functions.

I have to thank both of you very, very much for your patience with me and for helpin where you could, I would have been alot more lost than I have been so far, had I not known alot of this stuff.

New RAM has been ordered and should arrive on wednesday, which is good enough for me. Thank you again ever so much for your help.
 
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Glad you figured it out!. I hate to tell you that I believe you still need to do a clean install for everything to work correctly. What RAM do you have? Just because it's not on the QVL does not mean it will not work.
 
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