hi frazter1 and welcome.
if its a phenom cpu you have then its gonna be quite a new machine.
in which case your problem might be a factory pre- installation mess-up and i would recommend a recovery to reinstall windows and associated software.
to do this, turn on the machine and start pressig F8 straight away and keep pressing once a second until you see a 'advanced boot menu'. on there the first option will be 'repair your computer', press enter on it and follow the on-screen instruction to reset the machine.
be warned that that this process will delete all user data so backup before you go ahead.
any queries with it, give a holla