Swapped motherboard and cant boot up windows, need help!

Adam_15

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Ive had some issues swapping out my motherboard And cpu from amd to intel (see http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3264239/wanting-upgrade-fps-games.html#19084625) for full history, but finally have it all hooked up but now i cant start windows for some reason, it loads up to the on the windows Logo then reboots, and goes to this screen http://imgur.com/xo8OfcA

Startup repair goes to this screen http://imgur.com/Cn8g7Sf reboots and starts the cycle over

Ive tried running the "easy driver installer" but that just gets to 100% on the "landriver.zip" installer then freezes.

I read on another topic it may be that i need to install my drivers for this motherboard but idk how i can if i cant get to windows in the first place and boot up the cd in my disk drive.

One suggestion (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2400473/crashing-restarting-windows-load-screen-changing-motherboard-cpu-powerbox.html) said to change AHCI" to "IDE" but i cant find this option anywhere in the Asrock UEFI menu/options (http://imgur.com/4s3rvDh)

Please Is there anything you guys may know off to help me out here? Im willing to take any additional photos of anything you may need.
im running out of ideas and dont want to reinstall windows.

Thank you very much for your time,
Adam
 
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Hi

If you had prepaired in advance it might have been possible to uninstall most of the device drivers and remove the sata controller driver before powering off for the last time

This is rather hit and miss unless the new motherboard has the same or similar chipset

A clean install is always best

And if your windows 7 was oem you would need a new Windows licence key anyway after changing the motherboard

You can test the pc build by booting up from a bootable dvd , cd or usb with windows or linux on it

Regards
Mike Barnes

Adam_15

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Does this crash sound like what would generaly happen if i swapped a motherboard without reinstalling windows? Id like to be confident that a reinstall of windows is what can fix it
 

USAFRet

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Yes, that fail mode is very typical.
 
Hi

If you had prepaired in advance it might have been possible to uninstall most of the device drivers and remove the sata controller driver before powering off for the last time

This is rather hit and miss unless the new motherboard has the same or similar chipset

A clean install is always best

And if your windows 7 was oem you would need a new Windows licence key anyway after changing the motherboard

You can test the pc build by booting up from a bootable dvd , cd or usb with windows or linux on it

Regards
Mike Barnes
 
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