BIOS and windows wont boot after mobo swap.

KevinsK

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Hello,
I replaced my MSI 970a g43 board with a Gigabyte 970a UD3P board. Prior to this i uninstalled many drivers from the PC in order to keep Windows 7 without fresh install.

After swap windows wont boot, it also will not do automatic repairs. Im pretty sure its a driver issue. Yes i have read at this stage many existing treads and i wanted to do a windows reinstall after the discovery of this issue but it will not allow me to enter BIOS. After pressing F12, F8, DEL, or any other button it just goes to black screen. Only two options i get is to start windows normal ( which will crash and go back to the two options) or to do windows repair, which will get to a dead end eventually. I wanted to try and resolve this boot issue by changing ACHI to IDE, but i cannot enter BIOS.
I do not have a windows 7 disc, I do have a windows XP disc which i tried installing but it shows an error during the processes.

Any thoughts or ideas would be much appreciated. Also sorry for this post being similar to others but nothing has worked yet. Thanks

my specs:
16GB Kit Crucial Ballistix Sport Series DDR3-1600, CL9.
AMD FX-8350 Prozessor, Boxed, Sockel AM3+.
Corsair VS Serie V650, Non-Modular, 80+.
LG GH24NS bare.
LogiLink USB 2.0 all-in-one Card Reader,.
LogiLink Wireless LAN 300 Mbps PCI Karte.
GA 970a UD3P, Revision 2, AMD Sockel AM3+, ATX, DDR3.
NZXT LeXa S Midi-Tower - black.
Sapphire R9 270X Dual-X OC Boost Lite Retail mit MANTLE und Gaming Evolved Client, 4GBDDR5.
Seagate Barracuda 7200 1000GB, SATA 6Gb/s.
Sound Blaster Recon3D PCIe.
windows 7.

(Also im gonna try to connect another hard drive and install windows xp onto the pc and after clear the first hard drive to instal windows XP onto that, then remove the second hard drive. will this work?)
 

KevinsK

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The components are in order. After going through some diagnostics the windows posts a full report in which it showed only issue to be driver related as it realized new hardware was installed. (windows tries to resolve the problem automatically, when it fails you get directed to the menu where options such as open prompt and restore windows to previous versions are available. that's where the report can be read)
 

KevinsK

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After reading 17 billion treads and post I have solved my issue (for this moment). This is for future reads with similar issues.
Black BIOS screen.
The windows screen would load even tho it was broken which made me believe that the mobo was working. The bios screen would show but once any of the hotkeys were pressed it would immediately black screen. Therefore I simply plugged my computer to a different screen and once the bios screen came up, I pressed the delete key and it all worked fine.
Windows driver error/conflictions
Now that I could enter the bios I immediately changed the SATA setting from AHCI to IDE within the bios. Now the windows would boot past the previous point however none of the USB ports would work and I could move mouse or type. Therefore I simply restarted the pc and booted in safe mode. This time everything seemed to work and I went on to try and install the new drivers. The driver installation crashed but not the system, I restarted the pc. Now it booted without safe mode and the usb ports were working. Then I installed new drivers and restarted again, upon boot it configured windows updates and all is good. end of story.
If something goes wrong again I’ll let you know (hopefully not tho).
Thanks.