Thanks for the offer, but the old pc doesn’t even boot in safe mode for some reason. Maybe I take a look a it when the new pc is installed, but for now I’m not going to spent to much time on it. If I need your help, I’lle let you know.

That processor overclocks nicely… good choice. I’m not familiar with that motherboard, but make sure it supports overclocks well. The Gigabytes seem to, so you should be fine.

I have the same processor, and it’s humming along at 30% above normal specs quite nicely (around 3ghz) with nothing more than a BIOS change and no extra cooling. I spent money getting a good motherboard, and when I get the time I’ll see how far I can take it.

Reboot into safe mode as your normal username. Go Start >> Run and type “regedit”. Go to the keys “HKEY / Current User / Software / Microsoft / Windows / Currentversion / Run” and “HKEY / Local Machine / Software / Microsoft / Windows / Currentversion / Run” and post the results of the left window here.

I’m pretty good at removing them. From the output of that I can tell you whether anything remains with 95% accuracy (there are more locations, but those are the telltales).