Hmmmm, you look a bit ill to me. I think you need to go home and rest
Haha, i wish it were that easy
Help! Wont boot to windows after upgrade!
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Haha, i wish it were that easy
Glad that I'm back in, things still seem amiss though so a fresh install may still be on the cards. A few more questions:
1. Is there a simple way to remove all the old gigabyte drivers?
2. Should be uninstalling and reinstalling some things? CCC for one and maybe Asus GPU tweek? I was just putting the GPU tweek settings back to how I had them before and got blue screened, not sure if the two are linked?
3. Now I have access to both drives, media I can move across, but is there anyway of moving programes and things across intact? Like steam, origin, xbmc and most importantly my Sickbeard, Couch Potato and SABnzbd? (that will take ages to set up again)
I suspect not but worth asking!
1. Is there a simple way to remove all the old gigabyte drivers?
2. Should be uninstalling and reinstalling some things? CCC for one and maybe Asus GPU tweek? I was just putting the GPU tweek settings back to how I had them before and got blue screened, not sure if the two are linked?
3. Now I have access to both drives, media I can move across, but is there anyway of moving programes and things across intact? Like steam, origin, xbmc and most importantly my Sickbeard, Couch Potato and SABnzbd? (that will take ages to set up again)
I suspect not but worth asking!
Fresh install is the best way to clear up driver conflicts when upgrading. There'll be so many different registry entries and hidden folders etc it could always lead to problems further down the line.
Whilst it's all up and running now, I would go to your motherboard vendors website and download all the latest drivers, chipset, sound etc. Put them in a folder on one of your drives. Then when you've installed windows, plug in the other drives and install the drivers manually.
Same with CCC etc, get the most recent versions and keep them on the spare drive ready for install.
Steam and Origin games can be kept. Not at my PC, but I think you need to just copy the 'common' folder. If it's default install, the path should be Program files\Steam\Steam Apps\common. Origin has something similar, but can't remember exactly. Once steam is reinstalled you can either copy the folder back over to C drive, or just map it in steam itself. You'll need to 'install' each game, but it will discover the existing files and just download a minimum of files. Back up you saved games as well obviously, usually in My Docs, but not the same for every game.
Whilst it's all up and running now, I would go to your motherboard vendors website and download all the latest drivers, chipset, sound etc. Put them in a folder on one of your drives. Then when you've installed windows, plug in the other drives and install the drivers manually.
Same with CCC etc, get the most recent versions and keep them on the spare drive ready for install.
Steam and Origin games can be kept. Not at my PC, but I think you need to just copy the 'common' folder. If it's default install, the path should be Program files\Steam\Steam Apps\common. Origin has something similar, but can't remember exactly. Once steam is reinstalled you can either copy the folder back over to C drive, or just map it in steam itself. You'll need to 'install' each game, but it will discover the existing files and just download a minimum of files. Back up you saved games as well obviously, usually in My Docs, but not the same for every game.
Thanks mate.
It settled down eventuality and seems ok for now. Have updated all drivers and reinstalled CCC with the latest beta and all seems good. Heaven 3 scores have gone up 30-35% so seem to have released a nice bottleneck there!
I think I'll see how she goes for now, an SSD is on the cards pretty soon so would rather wait until then before a fresh install if possible, but we'll see.
It settled down eventuality and seems ok for now. Have updated all drivers and reinstalled CCC with the latest beta and all seems good. Heaven 3 scores have gone up 30-35% so seem to have released a nice bottleneck there!
I think I'll see how she goes for now, an SSD is on the cards pretty soon so would rather wait until then before a fresh install if possible, but we'll see.
