BSOD after New Motherboard, CPU, RAM.

Achint2000

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Old system specs:
i5 2310
G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2x 4GB)
ASUS P8Z77
Everything else same.

New system specs:
i7 7700K
G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB (2x 8GB)
ASUS z270F Gaming
Everything else same.

Same story. Booted up, bluescreen everytime.
Loaded safemode, got bluescreen on bthidhub.sys , somehow removed it.
Then reboot into safemode, got bsod on CLASSPNP.SYS ...
Went into (( system32/drivers/ )) and removed all drivers related to old motherboard. Still the same story so it might be related to the registry.

There must be some way to just get it started again. I can reinstall ALL previous drivers but not all the old softwares.

I changed parts after 5 years and I don't wana go through the entire clean install of windows. I don't even have some setups of many softwares I work on daily and I don't have much free space either.

I managed to install a second win7 OS on my 2nd internal HDD and get it to work. I'm in progress of installing all drivers on the new installation.

I think if I overwrite all driver related old registry entries by the new ones and replace/delete all old drivers by new ones, it might work.

I just need it to somehow get to the windows screen, then the drivers installation disk will do the rest.

Now, what all changes in the registry and drivers folder do I have to make so that my old windows installation works with the new hardware?
 
Solution
With a new motherboard, a full reinstall is often required.
If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. There is no list of magical Registry keys to change.

And if this is pre-Win 10, you even need a new OS license.

For the licensing/activation, if Win 10, you should have done this before the hardware change:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/20530/windows-10-reactivating-after-hardware-change
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3164428/windows-build-1607-activation.html

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With a new motherboard, a full reinstall is often required.
If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. There is no list of magical Registry keys to change.

And if this is pre-Win 10, you even need a new OS license.

For the licensing/activation, if Win 10, you should have done this before the hardware change:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/20530/windows-10-reactivating-after-hardware-change
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3164428/windows-build-1607-activation.html
 
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Achint2000

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C'mon... All those themes, games, setting it perfect just like I wanted over the years and now I can't throw it all away like this...