PC won't boot past windows 7 loading screen

lemons13579

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Hi all, I upgraded a build of my fathers with my old CPU (fx-6300) and graphics card (gtx 760). I also bought a new PSU to go with it. I reused from his build his hard drive (with windows 7) and his CD drive. Whenever I boot up it starts normally but as soon as the windows squares start floating into place it freezes, blue screens for like 1/10th of a second (I took a slo-mo video of it to see what it said and it just says to restart and try to fix my problem) and then the PC auto-restarts to where it says "Run setup repair or Start Windows 7 manually". I've tried resetting the BIOS by taking out the little battery for 5 minutes, I've also made sure the boot order had the HDD first. I dont hink it matter but the hard drive is in the #2 SATA port while the CD drive is in #1, the #0 spot's pins sort of broke so I can't use that, lol. Please help me diagnose my problem! thank!
 
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If you changed out the motherboard and CPU you need a new license for windows 7 as it is tied cpu/motherboard.
The problem is based on the sata driver being incompatible with the current chipset causing a 0x0000007b BSOD error.

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If you changed out the motherboard and CPU you need a new license for windows 7 as it is tied cpu/motherboard.
The problem is based on the sata driver being incompatible with the current chipset causing a 0x0000007b BSOD error.
 
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So my understanding is that I need to buy Windows again? Also forgot to include, I reused 3 GB of RAM from my father's old build.
 

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Depends if the license came with the computer and is OEM you need a new license, if you bought the retail version of windows 7 you can transfer it BUT if you have the retail version of windows 7 upgrade to window 10 then try to transfer it you cannot.
 

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I have the full windows 7 install disk which I believe still has the actuvation code in it
 

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