New PC won't boot windows

foomonkey

foomonkey

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So I finally put together my PC but when I boot the computer I get blue screened

After doing a repair I'm getting the following message...

http://tinypic.com/r/2n9yiqx/9

I tried removing my new GTX 1080 to see if it would boot to Windows without it but I'm getting the same problem in that the system restarts.

Can anyone lend me advice on how I resolve this issue? Everything in the computer is new apart from the HDD, DVD RW and a few fans.

The spec ;

Asus maximus viii hero mobo
I7 6700k CPU
Gigabyte GTX 1080 GPU
Evga 750 GQ PSU
Corsair vengeance 32gb ram
Ocuk twin water cooler
Array of fans
DVD RW
1tb Samsung HDD

Are there any components in my build that I can rule out as being the problem since I can get to the screen that starts trying to load windows and I can also run a system check to get the linked image above?
 
As mentioned is this a clean install?

If you've tried to boot an effectively new PC using a Windows install from a previous build there's plenty to go wrong. It's not something I'd even attempt unless they two systems were very similar (and I had full backups to fall back on).
 
The fact you're able to start the repair suggests hardware isn't the problem, clean install it and things will go much more smoothly... back up the drive files you need first of course.
 
Have you left any USB drives in the computer?

Mine tried booting up from a USB printer once....

It may be looking for the drive with the bootloader/windows partition, which another drive may mess with drive letters.
 
Didn't know I had to reinstall windows. In the process of doing it now to my new ssd and will have the old HDD as a slave drive (originally it was my windows drive on old PC)

Will I need to configure the HDD in anyway to make it slave to my ssd?
 
Not to begin with. Just make sure the HDD data cable isn't connected when you install Windows on the SSD.

If all goes well Disk Management will show the old HDD as simply Healthy (Primary Partition), with nothing else like Boot, Page File etc (those should display for the SSD).
 
foomonkey said:
Didn't know I had to reinstall windows. In the process of doing it now to my new ssd and will have the old HDD as a slave drive (originally it was my windows drive on old PC)

Will I need to configure the HDD in anyway to make it slave to my ssd?
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You'd want it this way anyway as the ssd boot speed is massively better.
You will have to set it as the primary boot device in the BIOS, but gone are the days of slave jumpers since most HDDs are sata
 
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