BSOD on boot after CPU/Motherboard/RAM change

wrenchimp

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Sep 25, 2014
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Hi,

Previous Parts:
CPU: Intel Core i7-870 Lynnfield LGA 1156 Processor BX80605I7870
Motherboard: EVGA P55 Classified 200
RAM: CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

New Parts:
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E LGA 2011-v3 BX80648I75820K
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3 LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 2800 (PC4-22400) MemoryModel CMK16GX4M4A2800C16

So I changed my setup to what I enumerated just now. However, my computer now starts to boot, shows the new Windows 8 logo and then I get a BSOD. I looked around and it seems that most solutions are simply a clean install, but I'm wondering if there are any ways not to go that way since I did not took the time to backup my data.

Thank you all for your help.
 
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Since you changed your computer platform, you are better off clean install your windows, to avoid future instability.

Back up data is important. Clone it to another drive, or get a SSD for your boot drive which is faster.

zxt827

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Since you changed your computer platform, you are better off clean install your windows, to avoid future instability.

Back up data is important. Clone it to another drive, or get a SSD for your boot drive which is faster.
 
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