Start up issues in Windows 10

Heisenberg · 13 Sep 2015 at 00:24

Looking for a bit of assistance here guys. My mate asked me to help fit his new gpu after his old one caused driver crashes etc before it gave up completely. Old card was a 680 and upgraded to a 970. Installed the 970 tonight and during booting, windows threw up a blue screen and restarted. This went on and on for about 5 loops until it eventually booted into windows.

I thought it was just a driver issue so deleted nvidia driver and attempted to restart in safe mode. Then discovered PC won't even boot into safe mode without issue. Again persevered and got windows booted. Tried BF4 which ran great with no issues. We then tried a reboot and same issue again. I have since attempted numerous fixes, (system file check, startup repair etc) which all throw up generic errors and fail.

I then tried to refresh windows which begins then restarts and blue screen error once again. Next course was to get out the old Windows 7 disc(Has since done upgrade to Win 10 through windows) and boot from the disc. This throws up an old win 7 blue screen.

Any ideas on what i can try next guys? Completely stumped here.

Thanks

stulid · 13 Sep 2015 at 00:34

Do you know the full system specs?

First thing to do is update the boards BIOS if it predates the release date of the 970.

Heisenberg · 13 Sep 2015 at 00:45

3570k @ stock, ASUS mobo (Not sure model) 16gb samsung green. Latest BIOS on mobo I think. Doesn't incompatible BIOS only cause No input displayed? Weird if it was the case when it booted a few times and played games ok.

stulid · 13 Sep 2015 at 00:49

PSU ok?

Try reseating the GFX card and check the cables.

Heisenberg · 13 Sep 2015 at 00:59

Yeah tried all that mate. Blue screen is throwing up different errors like, kernel security security check failure though it changes everytime it seems. Mate has just txt to say it's stuck in a reboot cycle then throwing up recovery screen. PSU has been fine for 3 years so no reason to think it's causing issue. Suppose it's possible.

stulid · 13 Sep 2015 at 01:02

Is it fine with the old card back in?

Reseat it all (RAM etc) as maybe somethings been disturbed.

Heisenberg · 13 Sep 2015 at 01:08

Old card doesn't display anything, it's dead.

stulid · 13 Sep 2015 at 01:12

Without the GFX card and the monitor plugged into the board does it work ok.

Heisenberg · 13 Sep 2015 at 01:16

No on board graphics on mobo mate. Was going to pull my gpu to test it but didn't think it could be the gpu as it loaded up a few times and let me install nvidia driver and play play bf4 without issue.

stulid · 13 Sep 2015 at 01:22

No onboard gfx, is it a P67 board? If it is then do check the BIOS version, it cant hurt and make things any worse but updating it if its older.

Heisenberg · 13 Sep 2015 at 01:26

It's a P9x79 pro mate. Will be having a look at it tomorrow again so will try BIOS update anyway.

stulid · 13 Sep 2015 at 01:36

Ah so you typed the CPU incorrectly.

Try the card in another slot.

Heisenberg · 13 Sep 2015 at 01:43

Yeah, my bad, bit tired mate. Yeah, i will try a few more things tomorrow. Cheers

freddie64 · 13 Sep 2015 at 08:29

Is the RAM in the correct slots (blue)?

CEUOTC · 13 Sep 2015 at 09:26

Had I a "similar" issue and cleared it with a clean install of W10.

Heisenberg · 13 Sep 2015 at 11:24

Anyone got any idea why trying to boot from Win7 disc, causes blue screen? First time I've ever came across that.

Heisenberg · 13 Sep 2015 at 16:40

Got to the bottom of it. It was a faulty stick of RAM. Cheers for the assistance.