Question Pc is running super choppy & slow after I completely restarted my pc. Any idea why?

Gunner7772 · 2025-01-26T17:57:31-0500

I restarted my pc completely buy it failed so I had to reinstall windows from a flash drive. After this I noticed my pc being super choppy and even worse then before the restart. I don't know why this is happening but I can't even play my games without them feeling choppy. Even when I open up a program it takes longer then usual to open up. Any idea why this is happening? Thank you

drivinfast247 · 2025-01-26T18:00:22-0500

Gunner7772 said:
I restarted my pc completely buy it failed so I had to reinstall windows from a flash drive. After this I noticed my pc being super choppy and even worse then before the restart. I don't know why this is happening but I can't even play my games without them feeling choppy. Even when I open up a program it takes longer then usual to open up. Any idea why this is happening? Thank you

Did you install all necessary drivers?

Gunner7772 · 2025-01-26T18:30:16-0500

drivinfast247 said:
Did you install all necessary drivers?

Like? I tried installing my gpu drivers and it says this

drivinfast247 · 2025-01-26T18:39:24-0500

Gunner7772 said:
Like? I tried installing my gpu drivers and it says this

Please list all PC specs.

beyondlogic · 2025-01-26T18:54:00-0500

Gunner7772 said:
I restarted my pc completely buy it failed so I had to reinstall windows from a flash drive. After this I noticed my pc being super choppy and even worse then before the restart. I don't know why this is happening but I can't even play my games without them feeling choppy. Even when I open up a program it takes longer then usual to open up. Any idea why this is happening? Thank you

full specs list.

( current guess memory related )

Gunner7772 · 2025-01-26T19:27:45-0500

drivinfast247 said:
Please list all PC specs.

does this work?

drivinfast247 · 2025-01-26T20:04:24-0500

Have you installed the chipset drivers for motherboard?

JayGau · 2025-01-26T20:25:40-0500

What is the space left on your C drive? And I hope you didn't install Windows on the HDD instead of the SSD (that would explain the choppiness). But the fact that Windows broke after a reboot points to a hardware problem, likely the drive. Could your SSD failed and you reinstalled Windows on your HDD without realizing it?

Gunner7772 · 2025-01-26T20:27:48-0500

beyondlogic said:
full specs list.

( current guess memory related )

posted

JayGau said:
What is the space left on your C drive? And I hope you didn't install Windows on the HDD instead of the SSD (that would explain the choppiness). But the fact that Windows broke after a reboot points to a hardware problem, likely the drive. Could your SSD failed and you reinstalled Windows on your HDD without realizing it?

how can i check where i have it installed?

Gunner7772 · 2025-01-26T20:28:19-0500

drivinfast247 said:
Have you installed the chipset drivers for motherboard?

I don't know what that is or where to install it

Gunner7772 · 2025-01-26T20:29:52-0500

JayGau said:
What is the space left on your C drive? And I hope you didn't install Windows on the HDD instead of the SSD (that would explain the choppiness). But the fact that Windows broke after a reboot points to a hardware problem, likely the drive. Could your SSD failed and you reinstalled Windows on your HDD without realizing it?

when i reinstalled windows for some reason my hdd still had program files from apps i used before could that have something to do with it

JayGau · 2025-01-26T21:03:51-0500

Gunner7772 said:
when i reinstalled windows for some reason my hdd still had program files from apps i used before could that have something to do with it

First, you should open a Windows Explorer window and click on "This PC". Then make sure your C drive is the SSD. Also make sure you have enough space left on it (Nvidia installer is complaining that you may be out of space).

I don't think having old program data left on the HDD would cripple your new Windows install (unless they got installed after your new installation), but if you didn't installed anything on it after the fresh install you could format it to make sure there's nothing bad remaining (like a virus). Do a backup of the files you whish to keep first if you want to do that.

beyondlogic · 2025-01-26T21:04:17-0500

Gunner7772 said:
when i reinstalled windows for some reason my hdd still had program files from apps i used before could that have something to do with it

ok i think you have old chipset drivers installed. or old files conflicting if it wasnt a complete wipe of the old drive

beyondlogic · 2025-01-26T21:11:56-0500

JayGau said:
What is the space left on your C drive? And I hope you didn't install Windows on the HDD instead of the SSD (that would explain the choppiness). But the fact that Windows broke after a reboot points to a hardware problem, likely the drive. Could your SSD failed and you reinstalled Windows on your HDD without realizing it?

search in windows
disk management or create and format hard disk partitions. click it
look for disc 0 this is your C drive right click over 0 drive > properties> name of drive should be visable.

beyondlogic · 2025-01-26T21:18:24-0500

Gunner7772 said:
when i reinstalled windows for some reason my hdd still had program files from apps i used before could that have something to do with it

back up all files you want to keep to a usb.

do a complete reinstall via https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

do not choose iso image other option as a boot option.

window to usb youll get to a option of make a back up for this windows pc unclick it and it will give you a complete vanilla os.

option 2 is do a reset this pc when it asks you to keep files say no. this should wipe everything off but isnt a complete reinstall just removes all extra files apart from windows.

JayGau · 2025-01-26T22:01:16-0500

Did you always have those two drives? I first thought you were talking about programs you manually installed on your HDD but if those are Windows files then this could be very messy (it's like Windows got installed on the HDD at some point).

But my previous comment still stands: make sure your SSD is now your C drive and format the HDD. Reinstalling Windows on the SSD after your HDD got wiped out could also help (you could even remove the HDD before the installation just to make sure and put it back once it's done).

Gunner7772 · 2025-01-26T22:07:19-0500

JayGau said:
Did you always have those two drives? I first thought you were talking about programs you manually installed on your HDD but if those are Windows files then this could be very messy (it's like Windows got installed on the HDD at some point).

But my previous comment still stands: make sure your SSD is now your C drive and format the HDD. Reinstalling Windows on the SSD after your HDD got wiped out could also help (you could even remove the HDD before the installation just to make sure and put it back once it's done).

What do you think about this??

beyondlogic · 2025-01-26T22:12:45-0500

Gunner7772 said:
What do you think about this??

thats d drive that wouldnt cause instability.
that is a old windows install though from what i can tell.

your c drive is most important.

JayGau · 2025-01-26T22:43:34-0500

Looks like you have another old Windows installation on your D drive. You should format it to remove those file (they are probably harmless but just in case). What is on your C? How much space do you have left on it?

Gunner7772 · 2025-01-26T22:52:40-0500

here's my c drive, I don't know a lot about pc's so bare with me

PiersPlowman · 2025-01-27T00:29:21-0500

Overclocking? Reset the BIOS to the defaults.

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