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ceverett218

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I just finished up building my second computer a few days ago. I switched my hard drives and disk drive over from one computer to the other, but that was all. Every other component was brand new. I got everything plugged in and fired it up straight into the BIOS. It registered my SSD and two HDD as well as the disk drive. I setup the BIOS and started into windows. I got to my home screen, where everything was right where I had left it and it all looked like it was going fine.

Since I had switched the brands/models of my cpu, gpu. and mobo, I started to install the new drivers for each. I got all the stuff for my gpu online and the system manager got all the cpu stuff, at least I think. The problem occurred while I was installing the drivers for my new motherboard, the Asus Z170-A. When I was prompted to restart my system to finish the install, I did. However, when the computer turned off and then back on, nothing displayed on my monitor. I then went through all the steps of re-seating and moving my RAM sticks to different DIMMS as well as resetting the CMOS, but nothing worked. Then I noticed that the led for the cpu was red on my motherboard.

I am confused as to how that could have happened. And is this an issue with the cpu or the motherboard itself? I took the cpu out and examined it to see no bent pins, scratches, or marks, so there does not appear to be any physical damage to the cpu. Could there be any inner damage to the cpu? And what may have caused the issue? Also, I am not sure if I should be contacting Asus or Intel to try and get a new component.

Sorry for the lengthy post, I tried to be as thorough as possible.
 
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Obakasama

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Considering it sounds like you built a new PC and just moved the old hard drives over without reinstalling Windows I'm surprised it managed to boot into Windows without trouble the first time. It's recommended to reinstall Windows when changing motherboards.

Question is what state is your PC in now with the CPU installed again. I expect you should still be able to go into BIOS but have trouble getting into Windows, but when does the screen go black during the boot up sequence?
 
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Now when I turn on my pc, nothing comes up on my display. I swapped the gpu into old pc and it worked fine, so I don't think it's my gpu and I know the monitor should be good.

All I know is that when I power the machine on, nothing displays and my cpu led is red on my motherboard.
 
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Motherboard manufacturers may use lights on the motherboard to indicate things. I couldn't find out much about yours so am unaware of what that red light means. Any documentation may help to bring this forth and help to narrow down causes and solutions.

So I assume you don't even see BIOS now? In which case it may be back to basics for the time being. There may be something you haven't tried in the sticky.
 
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I have tried all of the problems on the sticky, unfortunately to no avail. I have, however, received a new motherboard and am going to try and see if that could have been the problem. Before I jump into doing that though, what is the best way to go about preparing my boot drive to reinstall windows on it? I don't have a huge amount of things on that drive, 93 gb used with some of it being the OS. So are there specific folders I should delete or move and some that I should copy to one of my storage drives?

 
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Shame the tried and trusted solutions didn't work. Suggests something else is going on (not that I have a clue what it could be). It might be worthwhile to see if things work more smoothly on this motherboard first.

As for the hard drive... From a personal point of view, I would try to backup any files I want to keep to a storage drive. I could then (1) try to repair Windows and keep all the files, or (2) perform a clean installation which would wipe the drive. I would still have the files I wanted to keep in either scenario. A clean installation is still recommended though.

In either case, you'd need to set the PC boot device in BIOS for it to install from your Windows disc or USB.
 
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