Troubleshooting AMD fx-8350 w/ Asus M5A99X Evo. can POST, but windows fails to boot to login

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Update- for anyone encountering this as well, dont reinstall windows as the solution. I chose that below as the best answer because it lead me to the real solution. I explain it in my post which is near the bottom. It involves setting your disk mode to IDE, in summary.

So Black Friday warranted new computer components. I upgraded my hardware to the specs below. Right now I can POST and piss around in the bios just fine, but windows will not boot. It shows the windows logo with the floating dots, but then fails to boot and loops me back to POST consistently.

New
-AMD fx-8350
-ASUS M5A99X Evo
-Patriot Viper 2x8gb (16gb) DDR3 1600Mhz Ram
(http://www.frys.com/product/8169005?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG)
-XFX R7-370 Radeon card with 2gb DDR5

Already Had
750w power supply
Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB Hard Drive
Windows 7
HAF 932 cooler master case (four fans)
Corsair H60

Hardware Replaced
AMD Fx-4100
nvidia geforce 560 1gb ddr5
ASUS M5A78L-M LX AMD 760G SOCKET AM3
PNY optima 8gb ram

(The patriot ram cards worked with my replaced hardware without any fuss at all, if that's worth mentioning)

So far, I've tried manually setting the ram frequencies to the manufacturers specifications, which are on the page in the link above, and I've tried manually setting the CPU/NB to 2400MHz. This was done after attempting to run at default BIOS settings, which had the same result.

So currently my D.O.C.P. profile looks like this in summary

Ai Overclock Tuner - D.O.C.P.
DRAM O.C. Pofile - DDR3-1600MHZ
CPU Ratio - 20.0
AMD Turbo - Auto
CPU Bus Frequency - 200
PCIE Freq - 100
Memory Freq - DDR3-1600MHz
CPU/NB Freq - 2400MHz
HT Link Speed - 2400MHz
(the rest is default)

-DRAM Timing Control menu
CAS# Latency 9
RAS# to CAS# 9
RAS# PRE Time 9
RAS # ACT Time 24
(the rest is default)

At this point I'm not sure of what else I can do. What might I be missing? Are there any hardware conflicts here? Anything else within the BIOS I need to set up?

I just want to get windows to boot, overclocking aside. Any help would be appreciated.

Sincerely.
 
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I probably would have just kept your motherboard and RAM as well. That FX-8 core should be able to run about anything you throw at it. DX12 applications should do well on 6 & 8 core CPUs in the foreseeable future.
 
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That mobo should also have a "profile 1" for RAM somewhere. If not try updating your BIOS if you haven't already. If it doesn't (after a BIOS update) then you can write the mobo manufacturer. I've gotten Foxconn to add memory profiles for some G.Skill RAM before - essentially helping them to update a BIOS. I had manually set the RAM already though. Also, if you're running at a 1T command rate on your RAM try using 2T. More than one stick usually means a 2T rate.
 
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Solution


Okay so I did not realize that I would need to reinstall windows completely, but thankfully I found a simple solution.

After researching possible ways around completely reinstalling windows to save myself the trouble, I found a tip

If you go into BIOS and then change the disk mode to IDE, whether its set to RAID or AHCI doesn't matter, then boom, Windows instantly starts with no trouble.

I was able to do this and windows finds and installs the basic drivers for the motherboard on it's own, though save for the chipset drivers, so some things will need to be downloaded from Asus's website.

That's it! hope it helps anyone else in the future, as this 10 second solution probably saved me hours of time.

Thanks for the assistance guys.
 
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For me it was set to AHCI by default, I hadn't messed with it at all until I read about it. Hm, whats the difference? Which one should I set my disk to after I set up my drivers, AHCI, RAID, or IDE?
 
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AHCI is preferable unless you're doing a RAID. RAID is great for redundancy if you've got two or three hard drives and you want to make sure that a hard drive failure doesn't leave you without your family photos or important work/school documents.

If you use Intel ISRT to use a solid state drive as a cache for a hard drive (essentially making your hard drive have SSD speeds) you will use the RAID setting I believe but since you're using AMD you don't have said option, it's N/A to you.

AHCI enables features IDE does not, and gives some performance boosts. If you set up your OS in IDE mode but want to switch to AHCI you can, but you have to fiddle with the registry just a bit. I won't go into detail as there are a lot of posts online on how to set up or turn on "AHCI after Windows Install" - just Google what's in quotes. It's pretty basic but best to just do it at installation - so if you can start over I would. Make sure your BIOS setting is back on AHCI before you begin the Windows Installation. It seems as if you had at some point cleared your CMOS and then could no longer enter your OS (Operating System, aka Windows) because it defaulted back to AHCI. Is that what happened? It's a pretty common occurrence for those not familiar with it yet.
 
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I'm not sure if I reset the CMOS. I was considering giving it a try, but never purposefully did anything that would as far as I know. Ehh I guess I'll just leave my disk set to IDE for now then.
 
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