Hi. Let em first say I am a complete noob when it comes to this stuff. I installed the following new hardware in to my old desktop:
MSI Z87 G65 Gaming Mainboard
Intel Core i5-4670K Haswell 3.4GHz LGA 1150
ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
16gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600
I kept the following in there:
Samsung 560GB Hard Drive
DVD drive
OS Vista 64 bit
My problems began immediately after installing the new hardware. The system would not boot up with the OEM Vista disk in the drive until I removed one of the 8GB ram sticks and left just one in DIMM slot 2. After finally getting that to boot I did a clean install with the Vista disk. I then had to have a friend come over and install drivers (i don't know how he did it) after the motherboard drivers disk would not work. After about 3 hours of tinkering he was able to connect me back to the internet. Now my computer runs slower, windows updates won’t install, the computer won’t fully shut down after i select shut down the screen goes black and computer remains on, I can't install Microsoft office using the disk i have, Xfinity broadband has slowed way down. It's just running like crap now. I also keep getting various error messages when doing things. Any suggestions on what’s wrong? Where should i begin in troubleshooting this issue? Is it because i'm running Vista? Bad motherboard? Please help.
MSI Z87 G65 Gaming Mainboard
Intel Core i5-4670K Haswell 3.4GHz LGA 1150
ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
16gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600
I kept the following in there:
Samsung 560GB Hard Drive
DVD drive
OS Vista 64 bit
My problems began immediately after installing the new hardware. The system would not boot up with the OEM Vista disk in the drive until I removed one of the 8GB ram sticks and left just one in DIMM slot 2. After finally getting that to boot I did a clean install with the Vista disk. I then had to have a friend come over and install drivers (i don't know how he did it) after the motherboard drivers disk would not work. After about 3 hours of tinkering he was able to connect me back to the internet. Now my computer runs slower, windows updates won’t install, the computer won’t fully shut down after i select shut down the screen goes black and computer remains on, I can't install Microsoft office using the disk i have, Xfinity broadband has slowed way down. It's just running like crap now. I also keep getting various error messages when doing things. Any suggestions on what’s wrong? Where should i begin in troubleshooting this issue? Is it because i'm running Vista? Bad motherboard? Please help.