Slow Desktop

[HybridXSV]

So I followed all the steps except 1 and I think that's what really screwed my computer (but I did back up the computer before all that so that's what I'm attempting to do now by entering safe mode, hopefully I can at least see the screen.)

So the thing I didn't quite follow was step 5. I did what you said for both nVidia and AMD but there was also an option called INTEL and I figured since I'm doing a full re-installation of the graphics card, I went and deleted that too and I'm guessing that's where I screwed up. At the moment, my screen looks like this:

Odd thing is before I installed the AMD Catalyst software, it was showing up just fine and after installing and rebooting, the screen turned like that.

One last thing is when I deleted the AMD using DDU but my windows just automatically installed the drivers before I even had a chance to just install the AMD Catalyst software (well windows 7 does that on its own as I'm sure you are aware), could that have caused the problem?

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One more thing to add: When my PC boots up, the screen is fine but once it goes into the windows screen (like the desktop screen), then it gets like that. When I click shut down (I can do that because I remember where the windows button is and shutdown click location is at), it stays distorted until it's completely shut down.

 

[HybridXSV]

Well, I did restore it and screen's back to normal but it said something around the lines of "the system was not recovered blah blah".....

I've pretty much had it with this so I'm just gonna wipe my hard drive and start over.
As for the reason why I'm not just simply upgrading the desktop, I'm a college student so it's more or less a given that I'm broke haha so I'll just have to deal with it until I can get a solid job

Thanks for all the help guys! If there was a thumbs up button I'd gladly give two

 

[Okedokey]

It's really hard when you change gpu vendors and cannot follow instructions mate. If I wanted you to uninstall intel I would've said so. Let me know how you go with reinstall.

 

[HybridXSV]

Re installed it and it was working perfectly until I installed the AMD catalyst again (this time I didn't bother doing DDU since my hard drive was wiped clean), then the screen distorted once again so now I'm wiping again...

All I did was re-install windows ( meaning all other settings previous that was on the computer like the nVidia is gone? I custom installed windows and deleted all partitions and created new ones) then installed the AMD catalyst using "express install" installation option. Screen was fine then restarted the computer and the screen went distorted.

And the chipset software you recommended, I can't tell if it actually installed it or not because it doesn't even show the installation window so unless it installed it in like half second, my computer doesn't seem to want it haha (Or windows automatically already downloaded and install it)

So my conclusion is, do not install AMD catalyst software on old computers I guess... unless there's something I screwed up again because the INTEL part I deleted should have been restored with all the windows automatic software updates and such.

 

[Okedokey]

Last sentence is incorrect and the rest is confused.

Reinstall windows, download and install the intel chipset drivers, restart and install the AMD drivers i linked to and then update windows. Then go to manufactuer website and resinstall anything else missing.