New Motherboard and Windows Installation Issue

chivs688

chivs688

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So I just got my new Gigabyte Z77-D3H Motherboard to replace my old one, installed it into my rig and did a fresh installation of Windows 7 onto my SSD.

All seemed to be fine, until I got into Windows and everything was incredibly "choppy", and laggy. I dont mean that it was running slowly per say, it would boot up in seconds and all the menus and things loading instantly. But when you would drag say a window around, it would create a load of 'ghost windows' of where it had been, which were a weird black and random colour look, until you stopped moving the window then they would disappear. And when just on the desktop making boxes by clicking and dragging the mouse, it would be very noticably choppy and jerky, not smooth and seamless like it should be.

What's more weird, at one point it randomly was fine, all smooth and nice, as it should be. And I hadn't done a thing when it changed, was looking up info online about the issue ironically enough, and just noticed everything was smooth for a second. But then a minute later it was back to the bad stuff again.

Any ideas?

This was after installing some of the Motherboard drivers (the ones that came on the disk with it) and the GPU driver. Not done Windows Update yet.

PC Specs:
I5 2500k
Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H
Asus AMD 7970 Matrix Platinum
Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB RAM
Samsung 840 EVO SSD
XFX PRO 650W PSU

Any help much appreciated. Thanks.
 
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mcleish said:
Download the latest drivers from the mobo webpage I reckon. What monitor you using?
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Yeah I've got the latest Motherboard drivers from the website, so I'll start going through those I guess and see if one of them somehow fixes it.

Im using an LG W2361V-PF monitor.
 
I've only seen the choppy windows effect when the graphics card drivers aren't installed properly and it's running under the default Microsoft VGA driver. Check the graphic card drivers (try 13.12 and 14.1) and motherboard drivers for thing like the PCIe slots. Make sure you have the latest BIOS for the motherboard, as these often fix video issues.
 
I did install the latest 14.1 GPU driver and updated the BIOS to the latest version, but will reinstall the GPU driver and maybe just try 13.12 just in case.
 
you didn't have to install the drivers off the disc,only the lan driver,windows will install the rest

use display driver uninstaller and uninstall the gpu drivers and try latest beta,have no issues here with 14.1 drivers/7970

if you want latest mb drivers then get them off gigabytes website rather than the disc

ddu

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/display_driver_uninstaller_download.html
 
Ok, so it's the GPU Drivers.

Without the driver installed, runs smooth. As soon as I install it and reboot, choppy.

So.. what can I do from here?
 
Huh.. so another weird discovery.

When just on the desktop and doing click+drag boxes, choppy.

With Chrome open in a window and off to the side, click+drag boxes are smooth..

But, with just a random window like My Computer open, still choppy..

P.S. Is even still smooth with Chrome open and minimised.
 
Are you sure you're not using the Intel on-board graphics by mistake and there are no drivers installed for it? Check in device manager to see what hardware/driver is active. Set the BIOS to explicitly favour the PCIe card in preference to the onboard IGP. A lot of motherboards have strange behaviour on some hardware combinations when the BIOS is set to "auto" for the graphics where you have both IGP and an add-in video card active.
 
Steampunk said:
Are you sure you're not using the Intel on-board graphics by mistake and there are no drivers installed for it? Check in device manager to see what hardware/driver is active. Set the BIOS to explicitly favour the PCIe card in preference to the onboard IGP. A lot of motherboards have strange behaviour on some hardware combinations when the BIOS is set to "auto" for the graphics where you have both IGP and an add-in video card active.
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Well under "Display Adapters" the only thing listed is "AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series". Or is that not the right catagory I'm meant to be looking at?

Would I not have to have my HDMI cable plugged directly into the Motherboard for it to use the on-board graphics? Because it's plugged straight into the GPU atm..

I'll have a look in the BIOS now. What specific setting am I looking for? Any pointers as to where it might be?
 
"Display adaptor" is the right thing to look at, though you want to also see what CCC says about the installed hardware.

Sorry, I don't know that motherboard BIOS, so I can't really give you any pointers, but it should be in the manual, which you can also download if you don't have the paper version.

You should try a different cable. Are you using a HDMI-VGA adapter, or HDMI-DVI cable? You should try DVD-D to DVI-D. Make sure you're not using DVI-I cables at high res/refreshes, as it won't support that properly.
 
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Steampunk said:
"Display adaptor" is the right thing to look at, though you want to also see what CCC says about the installed hardware.

Sorry, I don't know that motherboard BIOS, so I can't really give you any pointers, but it should be in the manual, which you can also download if you don't have the paper version.
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Well I just went into the BIOS and under "Peripherals" there was an option saying "Internal Graphics" which was set to "Enabled", so I Disabled that. But issue is still here.

And under "Information" in CCC it lists the 7970 as the Primary Adapter.
 
chivs688 said:
Well I just went into the BIOS and under "Peripherals" there was an option saying "Internal Graphics" which was set to "Enabled", so I Disabled that. But issue is still here.

And under "Information" in CCC it lists the 7970 as the Primary Adapter.
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See my edit above on cables. That's where I'd look next.
 
have you enabled ccc/overdrive? and set power control slider to 20%?

idk why its choppy it shouldn't be,and you shouldn't have to mess with anything tbh

chrome might affect it,try disabling hardware acceleration in chrome,see if that helps
 
Hmm, well the 7970 has 2 DVI connections from what I can tell. So I just switched the adapter and cable to the other one to try, and the choppy boxes seem to have just stopped.. I then switched it back and it's not happening on the original one either..

Only setting that I changed is the Overscan in CCC, as it seems to default to about 7% on the slider, so reduced that down to 0.

So maybe that's fixed.. or maybe it'll just come back like the first time it disappeared..

In any case, the ghost window thing is still well and truly here.

Just testing it a bit now and it's definitely more intense when there are multiple windows open at the same time.

And the ghost box things are a mixture of black and light blue..
 
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Ok, scrap that, rebooted PC and the choppyness is back :(

Just tried switching out the DVI-HDMI adapter for the other one I have, and when my screen came back on choppyness was gone. So I then switched it back to the original one, and no choppyness on that one now either.. Although I'll reboot now and guaranteed it'll be back again..

So what could this mean? Why does seemingly disconnecting the GPU and then reconnecting it suddenly get rid of the issue, but once rebooted its back again?
 
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