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Did a clean install of Windows 7 64 bit - problems with everything
Sorry for the vague title but pretty close to everything is not working properly...
Ok, I got a new CPU and motherboard, and did a clean install of windows 7 ultimate onto a formatted hard drive. Installing drivers afterwards has proven very difficult (it frequently says the program is corrupt even when it's from the manufacturer's disk) - sometimes I can brute force through by repeated attempts (particularly in safe mode) but I'm not convinced anything works afterwards, and almost no web sites display properly - frames won't show, graphics are distorted, frequent 400 errors, walls of gibberish text, links don't do anything, the works. It happened with IE 8 (which installed from the disk), it happened wiht IE 11 after I upgraded, and I installed google chrome to see if it was an IE problem, and it doesn't appear to be. Sometimes refreshing helps a bit, but not usually (and it rarely fixes everything). I haven't even gotten to install any applications to see if they work. I installed 200 or so updates through windows update, but that's about it - I can't even manage to get into mcafee to install my virus program.
I'm not sure if this is a hardware or software problem. If it's software its either the drivers for the hardware or windows itself. Windows doesn't show anything being wrong or not working, either. Are there any tests I can do to see if I need to just go back to the store and replace my hardware?