- Dec 11, 2013
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So a couple of months ago I did a boot&nuke and reinstalled windows 7 since my computer had been running a bit too sluggish for my taste. Once it was all reinstalled I realized I didn't have my original driver disks, so I downloaded a bunch of graphics card and mother board drivers onto a thumb drive and installed them all individually from there.
Once I was back online I immediately knew something was wrong, my computer was crawling on it's hands and knees with a bloody stick up its ass. I couldn't even open a web page in under 5 minutes.
Programs were crashing left and right, downloading anything took ages and I couldn't run multiple tasks if my life depended on it. I tried a plethora of troubleshoots, and eventually figured I must have messed up my drivers when I installed them or something, seeing as though that was really the only thing that I could think of that was different from when I originally installed windows and my drivers and the like. So I hunted down my old driver disks that I used when I first built my PC and did another wipe and reinstall of windows, this time installing the drivers and software from the disks instead of the ones off of the internet.
Initially it felt better, but only at first. Once everything was installed and updated it was just as bad, hell maybe even worse. The only way I'm using it right now is because I overclocked my CPU and ram and whatnot to give it an extra boost, it helped, but only by a little. I'm starting to think it's a real hardware issue, but I'm not sure, seeing as though these issues only really started arising after I wiped my drive and reinstalled windows. But that alone should have made it run better, not worse.
Can anyone suggest any tests I can run to narrow down my issues? Hardware tests? Driver tests? I'm starting to get desperate at this point
Any help would be much appreciated.
Here are my pc specs if you'd like to examine them:
AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA
6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3
-2133 Memory
Hard drive: Western Digital Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM
Internal Hard Drive
Power supply: CORSAIR CXM series CX600M 600W
ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS
BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Video card: Asus R9 270x
Optical drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD
Writer
Case: Corsair Carbide Series Black 300R Mid-Tower
Computer Case (CC-9011014-WW)
OS: Windows 7 home premium. 64 bit.
BTW, sorry for the "wall-o-txt" (if you can call it that) but I like to be as descriptive as possible. Feel free to inquire as you like, I may have left out some pertinent information, i'm getting pretty tired and fed up with this crap, lol. I swear it's been months since I've had a computer that functions correctly.
Once I was back online I immediately knew something was wrong, my computer was crawling on it's hands and knees with a bloody stick up its ass. I couldn't even open a web page in under 5 minutes.
Programs were crashing left and right, downloading anything took ages and I couldn't run multiple tasks if my life depended on it. I tried a plethora of troubleshoots, and eventually figured I must have messed up my drivers when I installed them or something, seeing as though that was really the only thing that I could think of that was different from when I originally installed windows and my drivers and the like. So I hunted down my old driver disks that I used when I first built my PC and did another wipe and reinstall of windows, this time installing the drivers and software from the disks instead of the ones off of the internet. Initially it felt better, but only at first. Once everything was installed and updated it was just as bad, hell maybe even worse. The only way I'm using it right now is because I overclocked my CPU and ram and whatnot to give it an extra boost, it helped, but only by a little. I'm starting to think it's a real hardware issue, but I'm not sure, seeing as though these issues only really started arising after I wiped my drive and reinstalled windows. But that alone should have made it run better, not worse.
Can anyone suggest any tests I can run to narrow down my issues? Hardware tests? Driver tests? I'm starting to get desperate at this point
Any help would be much appreciated. Here are my pc specs if you'd like to examine them:
AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA
6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3
-2133 Memory
Hard drive: Western Digital Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM
Internal Hard Drive
Power supply: CORSAIR CXM series CX600M 600W
ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS
BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Video card: Asus R9 270x
Optical drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD
Writer
Case: Corsair Carbide Series Black 300R Mid-Tower
Computer Case (CC-9011014-WW)
OS: Windows 7 home premium. 64 bit.
BTW, sorry for the "wall-o-txt" (if you can call it that) but I like to be as descriptive as possible. Feel free to inquire as you like, I may have left out some pertinent information, i'm getting pretty tired and fed up with this crap, lol. I swear it's been months since I've had a computer that functions correctly.
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