Booting Issues

Snodge · 27 Feb 2013 at 22:12

Hiya guys I'm building a PC for my Cousin, He had a I7 2600, 16gb of ram, 500gb hard drive, a 6770.

So as he is trying to run three screens I suggested two 7950's with a new mobo and a TX 850, All the parts arrived today, Plugged them all in with the old CPU, RAM, HDD, I had both the cards in at first until it would be get the shields of the windows start up and crash.

So I thought I'd remove the Cards and try to run it off of the GPU on the CPU
that didn't work out it crashed and blue screened at the shields again and
the blue screen doesn't last long enough to get the error code or anything

I was wondering if anyone could help me please?

Snodge · 27 Feb 2013 at 22:29

I know it's late but please?

linwelin · 27 Feb 2013 at 22:33

take out all but one stick of ram.

Snodge · 27 Feb 2013 at 22:34

Tried taking out 2 sticks however the same issue, I'm guessing it's a faulty motherboard.

linwelin · 27 Feb 2013 at 22:36

could well be, anyway of testing it ?

Snodge · 27 Feb 2013 at 22:39

Could use the old mobo with everything and see if it boots

gamesaregood · 27 Feb 2013 at 22:43

Have you reinstalled windows?

Sounds like a driver issue from the old motherboard to me...

Snodge · 27 Feb 2013 at 22:46

How can I reinstall windows when it doesn't even load the shield before blue screening

Snodge · 27 Feb 2013 at 23:28

Any idea?

freddie64 · 28 Feb 2013 at 07:52

Install only one graphics card and maybe only one set of ram.

Can you get into bios? If yes,

Load optimised defaults and make sure it will boot from cd rom first.

Save and exit.

Insert the windows disc and reboot, then follow the instructions on the screen.

SparkyG · 28 Feb 2013 at 07:59

If you have just taken the HDD, with the OS still on it, and put it in the new PC it will most likely be a driver issue. You will need to re-install the OS again.

Snodge · 28 Feb 2013 at 09:05

Ok then cheers

satanicguardian · 28 Feb 2013 at 09:12

gamesaregood said:
Have you reinstalled windows?

Sounds like a driver issue from the old motherboard to me...

The fact that you said it freezes at the windows screen does suggest what gamesaregood said, seems like an issue with a driver, it's a common thing using a hard drive from a motherboard that uses a different chipset to the one that it was installed on

Gibbo3771 · 28 Feb 2013 at 09:16

Before you strip a system...wipe the drive. Then put in the new gear and install windows.

People always have problems if they don't wipe the HDD before hand!

Snodge · 28 Feb 2013 at 10:37

How can I reinstall windows on the drive boot from the windows disc ?

Gibbo3771 · 28 Feb 2013 at 10:43

You can boot from a disc or usb. Then just follow the usual steps and make sure you wipe the entire partion and recreate it, don't just write over it.

Admiral Huddy · 28 Feb 2013 at 10:44

Do you have both the main 24pin and supplentary 4/8pin copu power connected?

Does the motherboard have a speaker attached. Does it emit any POST bleeps?

Try reseting the CMOS

Snodge · 28 Feb 2013 at 12:05

Everything is connected Huddy, thanks for helping, The motherboard has it's own speaker to emit POST bleeps, it starts up fine then just blue screens at the windows shields, Will just put the windows disc in and boot from that which will allow me to reinstall windows get it up and running then delete windows.old hopefully

freddie64 · 28 Feb 2013 at 13:24

If you can boot from the install disc, you should get a option to delete the partition, you will lose all data though so if there is any data you need to back it up first. (connect it to your PC to do this).