troubleshooting

[ProjectN64]

hi all i need some help i own a dell xps 8700 with a 650tiboost 2gb everything has been good until today where i tried to upgrade my cpu, PC came with an I5-4460 and then my friend gave me an i7- 4770 that came from same exact desktop. I took no precautions and just swapped the cpu's. When windows loads screen flickers black for few seconds then i get notification saying display driver has stopped responding and has recovered. I removed car and went onboard with no problems at all, i updated bios to newer version and then completely wiped my nvidia drivers i then put card back in and everything seemed okay until i  restarted after reinstalling drivers. same problem keeps happening where my video drivers crap on me wut do?

[Equilibrium_FOOL]

Just to clarify, you removed the video card, then updated the drivers for the gpu?

[ProjectN64]

Just to clarify, you removed the video card, then updated the drivers for the gpu?

no i removed card, completely wiped drivers, then put card back in to reinstall. No problems until i restart PC from updating drivers

[Equilibrium_FOOL]

Try again, but make sure you are using the right drivers, and possibly use the motherboard video output when updating.

[DavidHawk62]

That's odd, you said everything was working just fine before, if another reinstall of the drivers doesn't work you may want to try formating and doing a clean install of everything.

[ProjectN64]

Try again, but make sure you are using the right drivers, and possibly use the motherboard video output when updating.

i am using correct latest drivers and don't think it matters installing from onboard, i have gotten the drivers fully installed but gpu just crashes

[ProjectN64]

That's odd, you said everything was working just fine before, if another reinstall of the drivers doesn't work you may want to try formating and doing a clean install of everything.

i was hoping to avoid fresh windows install

[ProjectN64]

need some advice, Going to bring pc to work to get install of new OS coworker gonna hook me up with badass SSD hes gonna instal OS on ssd and unplug my original 1tb hardrive. Can i still keep all my games and shit on secondary hardrive or it wont read it with new install? Please tell me my options with my original hdd, i would like to keep muh data

[Equilibrium_FOOL]

need some advice, Going to bring pc to work to get install of new OS coworker gonna hook me up with badass SSD hes gonna instal OS on ssd and unplug my original 1tb hardrive. Can i still keep all my games and shit on secondary hardrive or it wont read it with new install? Please tell me my options with my original hdd, i would like to keep muh data

Your existing hard drive won't be effected.  Just plug it in once the ssd with the os in is back in the system.

[ProjectN64]

Your existing hard drive won't be effected. Just plug it in once the ssd with the os in is back in the system.

Will i have to do anything different to access files from old hardrive, im assuming the windows desktop will be missing my stuff. Will it be -mycomputer-documents-videos-my movies. Something like that?

[ProjectN64]

Will i have to do anything different to access files from old hardrive, im assuming the windows desktop will be missing my stuff. Will it be -mycomputer-documents-videos-my movies. Something like that?

Meant to say if i have to dig through old hdd for files