Recent content by outofpower

I can hardly even get into the old OS anymore. It took me over 6 minutes to get in as I wanted to access an installed program. Once in I couldn't do anything hardly because of the wait time. Its as it its running on a Pentium 1 or 2 if lucky. Its getting worse each time I try to go in and at...

Core Temp says its 38c. Is that normal for these chips?

I think you're right. Something is tangled up in the old OS. Its funny when I switch back to the old CPU the old OS comes back to life. I did update the chipset drivers too. But yea I'm just gonna move into the new OS. Its been a few years so its probably time to clean house. Thanks for...

Well I loaded windows on another drive and its perfect. So the cpu is good. I'm probably going to move into this one.

I tried all the advice here. Windows shows activated. I changed the power settings to balanced and off of Ryan plan. I notice a lot of my cores are parked for whatever reason. One time I rebooted and it said I had HD corruption and wouldn't boot. I restart and it came up. I just tried to get...

Thank You. I will give that a shot today.

Hello. I don't have any experience dropping in a new CPU to an already working system which is what I did. I went from a Ryzen 1200 to a Ryzen 5600. I updated the bios according to their website and it supports the cpu. Is it typical a fresh install of Windows is needed for it to work right? I...