Seriously..

IronMonkeyJnr · 27 Jan 2012 at 22:27

I've made some recent hardware changes, i.e. CPU and MOBO...

Now before I installed these components, I formatted my HDD and re-installed Windows 7, but now, everytime I boot up windows, it gets to the splash screen, and then automatically restarts.. And it's pretty much a loop..

I can't go into safe mode as the same thing occurs..

Is this a hardware (hard drive disk) issue?

3dcandy · 27 Jan 2012 at 22:54

I've found that if you go from a dual-core to a quad core it does this...couldn't find an easy answer either!

d_brennen · 27 Jan 2012 at 22:56

IronMonkeyJnr said:
I've made some recent hardware changes, i.e. CPU and MOBO...

Now before I installed these components, I formatted my HDD and re-installed Windows 7

Doing that after installing a new motherboard and CPU would have been a good start

IronMonkeyJnr · 27 Jan 2012 at 22:56

Is there any solution to prevent this from happening?

d_brennen · 27 Jan 2012 at 23:01

IronMonkeyJnr said:
Is there any solution to prevent this from happening?

Possibly, but for all the time troubleshooting you could just put the kettle on and reinstall the PC. Windows 7 and drivers will take ~20mins

You could try startup repair from the DVD, this will take anywhere between 5 minutes to half an hour, probably won't help and will have eaten into time you could be using to do it properly

3dcandy · 27 Jan 2012 at 23:04

I've not found a way - re-install needed everytime. You would be a fool to waste time, just re-install windows and be done with it.

N31L777 · 28 Jan 2012 at 11:42

Another +1 for reformatting and starting from scratch. It's a waste of time trying anything else.

SourChipmunk · 30 Jan 2012 at 12:30

+2 (or 3 now?) -- install O/S after upgrading hardware.

Makhaira · 30 Jan 2012 at 12:38

You're (probably) changing chipsets, so it's hardly surprising. Reinstalling BEFORE making a change just gets you back to where you started from!

Shadz · 30 Jan 2012 at 12:40

After changing hard-ware like that you should always do a clean install of the OS as
everyone else has said.

+4 for everyone else's posts

Stoner81 · 30 Jan 2012 at 12:45

+5

Stoner81.

3dcandy · 30 Jan 2012 at 13:00

+6 ....oh I was first! Even with just a change from a dual-core to a quad core I've found this happens...same mobo even!

kiel367 · 30 Jan 2012 at 13:09

iv just went from a q9550 intel foxconn p45 chipset to an i52500k on a gigabyte z68 board and all i had to do was re-activate and install drivers, think i got lucky tbh

Diddyman · 30 Jan 2012 at 13:11

+7 u need to reinstall, but maybe change HDD mode to IDE (from ACHI) just to see if thats the cause, if you are reinstalling ensure u put it back to ACHI mode though