Asus Maximus vii Ranger boot loop

[jordant10]

I have recently built a new computer and it gets to the stage of starting windows (7) and then hangs and restarts. It makes it as far as qcode A0 before restarting.

I'm running windows 7 home premium with the below specs:
Maximus vii ranger motherboard
intel i7-4790k lga1150 cpu
Asus Radeon r9 290x direct cu II OC graphics card
Gskill ares 2x4gb 1600mhz ram f3-1600c9d-8gao
Samsung 840 EVO 250gb SSD model number mz-7te250
Antec kuhler h20 650 cpu water cooler
NZXT Phantom 410 case

I've tried clearing cmos, updating bios (to 1104), booting using the intergrated graphics as well as the card, booting with a single DIMM of ram as per support articles i've found on google but nothing has worked.

The SSD boots windows perfectly fine on when plugged into my other PC. I'm all out of things to try so thank you in advance for any suggestions people may have.

 

[unknownofprob]

Try one ram stick vice versa, you may have a faulty ram module in the board currently.

 

[jordant10]

Try one ram stick vice versa, you may have a faulty ram module in the board currently.

Gave it a go with each stick single of ram in each one of the slots with no success. Tried the ram back in my old pc and it works fine. Is it definitely sounding like a ram issue? Just because i'm thinking that this could be a compatibility issue now if it is the ram. That said these DIIMs are advertised as Z97 compatible.

Do you think these would be acceptable grounds for a return / exchange of ram or am I looking at another cost for more ram?

 

[unknownofprob]

Could you try other components in your old PC also?

Id the ram works in the old PC that's good news, it's not the problem. It could be the board housing the ram, the motherboard.

I would be pointing the cause of blame at your motherboard.

 

[Tradesman1]

The SSD boots fine to your other PC? You have the OS on the SSD? Is the other PC exactly the same?

 

[jordant10]

The SSD boots fine to your other PC? You have the OS on the SSD? Is the other PC exactly the same?

The SSD boots fine and has the os installed which loads perfectly fine and I can use. The other machine is an old on with lesser specs.

 

[Tradesman1]

If it boots fine to Win on one PC but not to the other, it's probably that the OS simply can't configure itself to the other system, you might try booting to safe mode, it's a possible and be ready to load the drivers for the mobo on the other system

 

[jordant10]

If it boots fine to Win on one PC but not to the other, it's probably that the OS simply can't configure itself to the other system, you might try booting to safe mode, it's a possible and be ready to load the drivers for the mobo on the other system

So you mean plug it into the old system again and put the new mobo's drivers onto the OS through the old pc?

 

[Tradesman1]

If anything I'd put in the old rig and make sure Win is totally up to date, then into the new rig and boot to BIOS and make sure your drives type is set to AHCI or whatever it is set to on the other rig....with an SSD most will set drive type to AHCI, if that is what the OS is set up for and your new rig is set to IDE then it isn't going to be able to read the OS, by setting the BIOS to the same as the old rig, be it AHCI or IDE then the OS might well go ahead and set itself up to the new rig, next would be to load all the new mobos drivers, run a registry cleaner to get rid of old (Wise has a good free version of it's registry cleaner, then will probably have to reactivate Win

 

[jordant10]

If anything I'd put in the old rig and make sure Win is totally up to date, then into the new rig and boot to BIOS and make sure your drives type is set to AHCI or whatever it is set to on the other rig....with an SSD most will set drive type to AHCI, if that is what the OS is set up for and your new rig is set to IDE then it isn't going to be able to read the OS, by setting the BIOS to the same as the old rig, be it AHCI or IDE then the OS might well go ahead and set itself up to the new rig, next would be to load all the new mobos drivers, run a registry cleaner to get rid of old (Wise has a good free version of it's registry cleaner, then will probably have to reactivate Win

Thank you so, so, so, so incredibly much. It works it looks like I my drive was IDE but bios was set to AHCI. I didn't know that those different types existed (I'm a scrub). You used your spare time to help fix my problem and I really appreciate it.

 

[Tradesman1]

No worries, that why I am out here, want to help whenever I can - have fun 😉