Hi folks A few weeks ago my Windows 10 machine died. I narrowed it down to the processor/motherboard so I bought a new system (mobo / proc / ram) and installed it yesterday. Windows 10 claimed to cope OK with the hardware changes---installed new drivers from the motherboard cd etc. However the new system is really flaky. The whole thing becomes unresponsive for a minute at a time, sometimes takes ages to boot, etc. Other times its absolutely fine. Do you think this is a sign of something being wrong hardware-wise (might even be my SSD going?) or do you think I just need to accept that Windows 10 needs a fresh install with this level of new hardware? Edit: Should probably add that this was a fairly major hardware jump: i7 920 to i5 2500 so completely different chipsets etc
No. My system died unexpectedly and there were a couple of files I wanted to retrieve so I tried booting the old system. It coped surprisingly well---loaded as normal and did the "new hardware, making some changes..." thing.
I'd really try a fresh install with such a major change. Is win 10 showing as activated on the new motherboard ?
Did a fresh install last night. All hunky-dory now Amazingly I didn't even have any problems activating Win10.
