Upgraded CPU, computer being weird, anything I can do besides reinstalling windows?

[Jerochy]

Hey guys,

I have this desktop at my GF's house and today I upgraded the cpu to a i7 860. I thought that windows 10 would be alright with me installing a new cpu without reinstalling because I've done it to a desktop in the past, and actually the hard drive with windows 10 on this computer was from a completely different computer without a reinstallation. 

I booted up and got some kinda sign in error, pressed ok, and things were a little strange. My resolution is only 720p and my screen is 1080p and when I went to switch it in display settings, I saw it was capped at 720p. So then I thought I had to reinstall my GPU drivers (hd 6950). I tried to autodetect drivers on AMD's website, and it could detect an amd product even though my video is through it, not onboard graphics. Then, I just manually installed drivers, and I keep getting a "Catalyst install manager has stopped working" error at around 16% through the installation. 

When I tried to uninstall raptr and the control center completely, not just the drivers, control panel wouldn't open. I restarted the computer, tried again, still wouldn't open. I ended up going through settings and apps to uninstall it, and I went to install the drivers again and I'm getting the same error. 

Clearly, a windows reinstallation is lookin like it would solve most my problems, but I'm just wondering if there is anything I can do besides that as I'm at my GF's house tonight and my usb with windows 10 is at my house? Any ideas? 

Thanks.

[ChipTech]

Probably just a driver glitch. What cpu did you upgrade from?

[themctipers]

run that program that removes all traces of amd drivers and then reinstall..

its somewhere, i forgot the name.. @GreezyJeezy defenately knows.

[GreezyJeezy]

On 8/10/2016 at 7:24 PM, themctipers said:

run that program that removes all traces of amd drivers and then reinstall..

its somewhere, i forgot the name.. @GreezyJeezy defenately knows.

DDU

[Jerochy]

1 minute ago, ChipTech said:

Probably just a driver glitch. What cpu did you upgrade from?

i3 550

[ChipTech]

yup, when you go from a dual core to a quad core, windows can get screwy. You might just have to reinstall windows.

[Jerochy]

Just now, ChipTech said:

yup, when you go from a dual core to a quad core, windows can get screwy. You might just have to reinstall windows.

crapppppppppppp alright thanks.

[ChipTech]

yea, np. I know your pain, reinstalling windows sucks.

 

 

anyway good luck

[LabRat]

NNNNNNNNNNoOOOOOOOOOOOOO, try a cmos reset first.

[DarkBlade2117]

3 hours ago, Jerochy said:

crapppppppppppp alright thanks.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Clear CMOS first and try.

Also reinstall drivers.