GA-X58A-UD3R Issues in Windows after new install

[Dontcounttoday]

I just replaced my mobo, ram and cpu all at once. I have a GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R, I7 930 and 8gb ram. The PC correctly recognizes all of these things, and I have the same graphics card, an 8800 GTS 512mb.

I did not do a format nor did I do any preparations for installing new hardware, and now I think I have a lot of conflicting driver issues. I get into windows fine, but I am unable to boot any .exe file at all, the process just comes to a complete standstill. The network driver for the mobo doesnt work obviously so I cant use the internet on the machine. For some reason the graphics card driver doesnt work so I am stuck at 600x800, and I cant load the driver disc or any driver files I downloaded and put on a usb drive.

I dont want to have to format but it seems I may have no option. If so, will that even help? It doesnt make sense to me that windows is freezing like it is. I am able to open programs already installed but any installation file just freezes upon opening.

[Fatman]

Go into your bios and load optimised defaults....Reboot and then put in the driver disc you got with the motherboard and load your drivers. See if that helps. If not I'm afraid you will have to reformat and start again.

[Lsdmeasap]

What motherboard did you have previously?

[Dark Mantis]

Whilst you can get around it the quickest and cleanest way of fixing this is to format the drive(after backing anything you need up of course) and then dso a clean Windows install. Not only will it get rid of your old drivers etc but will clean out all the accumulated junk that has been building up. It wioll make your installation run faster and smoother

[Graceman]

Whilst I agree with dark mantis who has helped me extesivley I was in same situaion with same board and managed to recover the windows install from an old install on same HDD. this was after the bios was ok and everything checks out make sure you have loaded optimised settings and flash the bios to F5 or F6n which is working ok.
Then run the windows install disc but do a recovery or repair install.
Then from the device manager click on each device and use update driver using the board install disc.
Run ccleaner which is a free download and clean out the registry. as soon as you can after running Windows update to sp3 then it will start to run ok.
Mine is fine now

[Dark Mantis]

Yes you managed very well Graceman but you had a valid reason for not wanting to format your drive because of your previously installed programs that you couldn't re-install. If it hadn't been for that I think it would have beeen better and quicker to just have done a clean installlation. Maybe that's the case here but the OP hasn't said so.