Bluescreen after instaling new hardware

thomaskw · Apr 17, 2014

Hello

So I decided to upgrade my computer. And now when I have inserted all the new hardware, it starts up like normal but when it's about to start booting windows 7 it get bluescreen and starts up again. And i can choose to start it in safe mode etc.

Old setup:
Silver Power SP-S650 650W PSU
Gainward GeForce GTX 770 2GB PhysX CUDA
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition
Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3, Socket-AM3
Kingston ValueR. DDR3 1333MHz 8GB, CL9
Western Digital Caviar® Blue 1TB

New setup:
Silver Power SP-S650 650W PSU
Gainward GeForce GTX 770 2GB PhysX CUDA
Crucial M500 SSD 2.5" 120GB
Intel Core i5-4670K
Corsair H60 Hydro Series CPU Cooler
Gigabyte GA-Z87X-OC, Socket-1150

So i bought a SSD, CPU and a new motherboard. I did not buy new RAM.

Hope someone know how to fix this!

Thanks

hang-the-9 · Apr 17, 2014

Did you install Windows clean? If not, do that. You can't just swap motherboards and expect the system to start up. There are hundreds of exactly the same issues as yours out there, any web search would have shown you what the issue is.

Nerumph · Apr 17, 2014

Yes, I would suggest installing a new version of windows on that SSD. Keep in mind, most every version of windows these days is hardware bound via your hardware ID and by switching out such crucial components as your MB and HD are gonna instantly send a red flag to your OS and not let it boot up.

Unfortunately, I believe you will need to also purchase a new license for windows as well as there is just too much different from your last build to work around your old license.

hang-the-9 · Apr 17, 2014

Nerumph :

That's not why the OS won't boot, it's due to the hardware driver changes. What will happen with a motherboard swap is that Windows will ask you to re-activate it with Microsoft. It will not "break" windows just because it detected different hardware, the boot issues then are for a different reason than it being "tied" to the hardware it was first installed on. In some cases Windows boots fine and just starts asking for drivers for new hardware.

If the version of Windows installed was an OEM one, you'd need a new license, but even MS will allow the change often as they understand that hardware breaks and needs to be replaced in the same system. So if it asks for a new code and won't activate, a call to MS support may help, just explain you needed to change the motherboard on your system and Windows is not complaining. If it's a Retail copy of Windows, you can re-install it on new hardware as long as it's installed on one computer at a time.

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