Got a hardware problem. BSOD and boot cycling after installing a new gfx card and updating the mobo bios

Associate
Joined
2 Jun 2009
Posts
104
First off i did 2 hardware changes. I updated the bios on my motherboard then i installed a brand new graphics card. My system was working fine before these changes.
First problem i had. I fired up spyro reignited trilogy, it got to the loading screen then the computer blue screened on me. The blue screen was about the graphics card. Some low level kernal issue. So i googled and figured out it might be to do with drivers. I had updated my bios and os but not the drivers to go along with it. So i updated all my drivers. I haven't had a blue screen since.
But i have another problem. I turned on my pc a while ago and when it got to the windows logo, the computer restarted. When it cycled and went through, it loaded windows properly this time. So i checked event viewer. Nothing in there. So thinking it was a windows problem, i ran sfc /scannow. It found tons of errors and fixed them. And that's what i thought it was for a bit. Until i updated my razer synapse and tried to reboot the computer. It restarted, got to the post screen then bootcycled. It restarted again. Now that was outside of windows. That was at post. That's when i realised that this isn't a windows or driver problem. This is a hardware problem. And i need help figuring out what's causing this because ive tried to reboot my compter several times to test it and it is bootcycling 40% of the times. I can still get into windows. Once it's up it seems stable. It's just the bootcycling that seems to be the problem.
 
Also my crystal ball is BSODing, so what parts you have there?

And make sure every cable and part is firmly seated in its place.
You might have accidentally nudged some cable or DIMM while changing graphics card.
 
If you can get back into windows use ddu to completely remove every part of the previous driver and do a fresh Nvidia/AMD driver install. You may also want to look at doing a fresh windows install. I always do that when upgrading hardware apart from storage and PSU.
 
If you can get back into windows use ddu to completely remove every part of the previous driver and do a fresh Nvidia/AMD driver install. You may also want to look at doing a fresh windows install. I always do that when upgrading hardware apart from storage and PSU.
This. Sounds like a potential driver conflict.

Use safe mode if you can't do it in regular boot to remove and clean with DDU. Reboot and do a clean installation.
 
Back
Top Bottom