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- Location
- West Midlands
Windows 8 pro has stopped running smoothly. I don't know what did it 100% but i think it was some application that is supposed to update your drivers for you - yeah i know what a bad thing to do!Anyway now it seems the internet wont connect and when booting into the desktop everything takes ages to load and a lot of apps start not responding when you click on them.I booted into safe mode and reinstalled a lot of drivers and when i rebooted the internet worked again suggesting that it is drivers that are causing problems.I had done a checkdisk and a couple of drives reported minor problems - i think it was free space was wrong or something like that - i certainly never thought it was too bad cos i cant remember lolSfc found no errorsI had troubke with kaspersky 2014 so they recommended to uninstall comodo firewall. I tried to do this as best i could and install zonealarm insteadIm wondering if there is a sata driver that is problematic as im guessing things don't seem to be loading properly???Has anyone got any ideas as i desperately want to rescue my system as ive got a 3tb hd and an ssd filled up with apps and games etc and REALLY dont wanna reinstall everything.I was wondering if there was a way of deleting all drivers and recopy and reinstall them all to see if this solved the problems???I do have a macrium reflect backup from over 6 months ago but I've installed and reorganised the system a lot since then so i wondered if i could copy a backed up windows folder where it keeps all installed drivers and then reinstall them from there again???Any ideas are really appreciatedThank you so much,SteveMy system setup is as follows:Windows 8 pro with media centre addonAmd piledriver 6core 3.3ghz cpuAsus sabretooth 990fx (rev 1) moboMsi Amd radeon 7870 2gb twin frozr16gb corsair vengeance 1600mhz ramC: 128gb ssd - samsung 840 pro (boot and apps)D: 3tb hd - seagate barracuda (games and media)B: 3tb hd - seagate barracuda (backup)E: Bluray driveF: External dvd driveMacrium reflect pro backup software
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8 Pro 64 Bit
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Custom Build
- CPU
- AMD Pile Driver 6 Core 3.3Ghz
- Motherboard
- ASUS Sabretooth 990FX [Rev 1]
- Memory
- Corsair Vengeance 16 Gb DRAM @ 1600Mhz
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSI AMD Radeon 7870 Twin Frozr III 2Gb OC Edition
- Sound Card
- Onboard ASUS Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- LG 22" Monitor
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1080 [1080p]
- Hard Drives
- [C] Samsung 840 Pro 120Gb SSD - Boot & Apps
[D] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Games
[E] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Games & Media
[B] Seagate Barracuda 3Tb 7200rpm HDD - Backup Drive
All SATA 6/3Gbps
- PSU
- OCZ 650 Watt
- Keyboard
- Logitech Internet Explorer
- Mouse
- Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
- Internet Speed
- 20Mbit Broadband
- Browser
- Comodo Dragon, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, (IE :p)
- Antivirus
- Kaspersky Internet Security
- Other Info
- MalwareBytes AntiMalware, IObit Advance System Care, ZoneAlarm Firewall