WINDOWS 10 SETUP WONT BOOT? help?

jdaniel 125

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hello

this is basically a long story so im gonna shorten it

i bought an Xeon CPU off of eBay to do the Xeon socket 775 to 771 mod on my GIGABYTE motherboard, I already checked and my mobo is compatible.

when I installed the CPU today, everything POST'ed fine. but Windows 10 refused to boot, it kept giving me a 0xc00000e error which means it's a boot loader error. so I did some research and someone said that it can be solved using Windows 10 installation media and selecting startup repair in the installer.

well, I created a bootable USB in disk part, then used the media creation tool to download Windows 10 64 bit onto my drive. my computer refused to boot off of the drive, it just got stuck at the blue Windows logo even though I changed the boot order and everything in the BIOS.

so then i created a bootable DVD and verified the ISO. it wasn't corrupted at all, which is good. so then I burned the DVD using powerISO and verified the data there also, my computer again got stuck at the blue logo while booting off the DVD.

my motherboard is a gigabyte GA-G41MT-S2PT, can anyone help? I am so freaking fed up with Microsoft and their unstable OS'es, they claim to be perfect BUT THEY'RE NOT!
 

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So you had an OS installed on the system with a different motherboard, and then a CPU/motherboard mod to use a different socket CPU, and the OS does not boot?
And you're blaming Microsoft?

What system was the OS originally installed on? This modded 775/771? Or a whole different one?
 

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the CPU was originally a core 2 duo e8400 on the same motherboard, then i upgraded it to an Xeon. and now all of a sudden it's not working
 

jdaniel 125

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ive already done that, I've booted into lubuntu, Windows PE, and it all worked. but the Windows setup media will not work at all for some reason even though I've kept re downloading it.
 

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well, is there anyway i can repair the Windows boot loader without using a Windows 10 setup disc?

 

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Not that I know of.
 

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well, I have a working Windows 8.1 disc, so I'll just use that