Hey Toms!
My system:
-Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 Socket AM3+ 990FX ATX
-AMD FX 8120 AM3+
-Patriot Viper Xtreme Series 8GB DDR3-1866 (PC3-15000) (4gbx2)
-ATi 6850 HD GPU (Sapphire)
-OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD (existing)
-WD Caviar Green 500GB HD (old, removed)
-WD Caviar Black 1TB HD (new)
-650w PSU
I had basically everything except music/pictures on the SSD, with the old hard drive just there for storage. Knowing this, I plugged in my new hard drive and got it formatted to NTSF. After I was able to move files over to the new drive, I turn off my system, took the old 500GB out, placed the new HD in the same slot and sata cable config, powered up and had a disk boot error. Fiddled with it for an hour or so and decided to reinstall Windows 7 (64 bit) on the SSD. For whatever reason, after the install, I can install the motherboard drivers, restart, install windows updates (including video card drivers), restart, then I have the following problem:
-No taskbar, explorer, icons, or cursor
-Default desktop image
-Ctrl+alt+del makes the screen go blank, but I can hit escape to return to the desktop image.
-Ctrl+Shift+esc doesn't bring up a task manager
Tried booting in safe mode. Seems to work but I can't get anything done. I boot safe mode with networking doesn't help me out much either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Jesse
My system:
-Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 Socket AM3+ 990FX ATX
-AMD FX 8120 AM3+
-Patriot Viper Xtreme Series 8GB DDR3-1866 (PC3-15000) (4gbx2)
-ATi 6850 HD GPU (Sapphire)
-OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD (existing)
-WD Caviar Green 500GB HD (old, removed)
-WD Caviar Black 1TB HD (new)
-650w PSU
I had basically everything except music/pictures on the SSD, with the old hard drive just there for storage. Knowing this, I plugged in my new hard drive and got it formatted to NTSF. After I was able to move files over to the new drive, I turn off my system, took the old 500GB out, placed the new HD in the same slot and sata cable config, powered up and had a disk boot error. Fiddled with it for an hour or so and decided to reinstall Windows 7 (64 bit) on the SSD. For whatever reason, after the install, I can install the motherboard drivers, restart, install windows updates (including video card drivers), restart, then I have the following problem:
-No taskbar, explorer, icons, or cursor
-Default desktop image
-Ctrl+alt+del makes the screen go blank, but I can hit escape to return to the desktop image.
-Ctrl+Shift+esc doesn't bring up a task manager
Tried booting in safe mode. Seems to work but I can't get anything done. I boot safe mode with networking doesn't help me out much either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Jesse