- Aug 15, 2014
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So I recently built a new PC and got all new components. But I took the hard drive out of my old HP Pavilion and put it into my new PC. I didn't wipe the hard drive before putting into my system though... Now I'm having various issues:
I've noticed that the computer (and Slim Drivers) still thinks it is an AMD A6-5200 processor with integrated graphics... The windows update actually had a driver update specifically for the AMD Radeon HD 6400 discrete graphic card. But the computer knows that it is an AMD FX-6300 processor with dual EVGA 660 graphics cards, in SLI. It also will not detect any games that I put into the CD drive. It says, "Insert (whatever game) game disc," whenever it's actually in the CD drive. It doesn't detect flashdrives either. It won't let me update Windows 8.1, MSI Live Update 6, Malwarebytes Anti-malware, Smite, Rift, Warframe, or Minecraft. It won't let me log in to Warframe, Smite, or Origin. Steam runs extreeeeemly slow and is basically unresponsive. When I try to download mods for Skyrim through Nexus Mod Manager, downloads are basically slowed to a halt. It downloads about 60-500kb of the mod and then just stops downloading. So I have to press pause and resume constantly, if I want the mod to download... This takes hours sometimes. In fact, I have one downloading now and Its about 90% complete when it's ETA is 1 minute... I started downloading it a few hours ago. So my original idea was to pirate a new OS for the computer... But I don't have a spare flashdrive to format for OS installation. Plus I'm actually not even sure if UTorrent will let me download anything, judging by what Nexus Mod Manager is doing.
So what I'm asking is, is there a way I can download a new OS, without a flashdrive, and keep all of my stuff but make everything run the way it was supposed to? (I don't have the budget to get a disc.) Or better yet, is there a way to fix the OS problem and just keep all of my stuff? And last of all, if those aren't options, if I wipe my hard drive, will that delete all the drivers I have on the hard drive for the old PC, allow me to replace them with the newer ones, but keep my OS I have now, and would that fix the problem?
I've noticed that the computer (and Slim Drivers) still thinks it is an AMD A6-5200 processor with integrated graphics... The windows update actually had a driver update specifically for the AMD Radeon HD 6400 discrete graphic card. But the computer knows that it is an AMD FX-6300 processor with dual EVGA 660 graphics cards, in SLI. It also will not detect any games that I put into the CD drive. It says, "Insert (whatever game) game disc," whenever it's actually in the CD drive. It doesn't detect flashdrives either. It won't let me update Windows 8.1, MSI Live Update 6, Malwarebytes Anti-malware, Smite, Rift, Warframe, or Minecraft. It won't let me log in to Warframe, Smite, or Origin. Steam runs extreeeeemly slow and is basically unresponsive. When I try to download mods for Skyrim through Nexus Mod Manager, downloads are basically slowed to a halt. It downloads about 60-500kb of the mod and then just stops downloading. So I have to press pause and resume constantly, if I want the mod to download... This takes hours sometimes. In fact, I have one downloading now and Its about 90% complete when it's ETA is 1 minute... I started downloading it a few hours ago. So my original idea was to pirate a new OS for the computer... But I don't have a spare flashdrive to format for OS installation. Plus I'm actually not even sure if UTorrent will let me download anything, judging by what Nexus Mod Manager is doing.
So what I'm asking is, is there a way I can download a new OS, without a flashdrive, and keep all of my stuff but make everything run the way it was supposed to? (I don't have the budget to get a disc.) Or better yet, is there a way to fix the OS problem and just keep all of my stuff? And last of all, if those aren't options, if I wipe my hard drive, will that delete all the drivers I have on the hard drive for the old PC, allow me to replace them with the newer ones, but keep my OS I have now, and would that fix the problem?
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