- Jul 18, 2017
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Hey all,
So as the title says I bought a new motherboard for my gaming PC. It's an MSi Z390 Pro and along with it I bought a new CPU which is an Intel i7-9700k. So I'm doing my thing, removing the old motherboard (which is also an MSi B250 model in case that's important) and I install the GPU, CPU, RAM, etc into the new mobo. Everything went in fine. No issues. That is until I turned the PC on. I was greeted by the "Preparing Automatic Repair" loop screen which would freeze after about 5-10 seconds every time I tried booting. If I spammed F10 I could get to BIOS but that's as far as I could go.
After about 2 hours of watching youtube tutorials on how to fix the issue (none of them even described the issue I was having) and googling for an answer I decided to just call it quits and put the old motherboard and CPU back in. Upon doing so and to my dismay I was not getting any display from my GPU or from my old MOBO with the HDMI cord hooked directly to it and the GPU taken out. So I tried pulling a stick of RAM and I restarted the PC and it booted up just fine. Now to clarify my PC was running perfectly fine yesterday. I was playing games on it no issues.
Thinking that the issue with the new MOBO was that same stick of RAM, I took everything out from the old motherboard again and put it in the new one this time without the stick of RAM I suspected to be causing the mischief. Same issue as before. Stuck in the loop.
Once again installed the old MOBO and parts and here I am typing this post. I might add that it's not one of the sticks of RAM that is faulty, its the slot apparently. I tested both in the slot that works and have had no issues.
So aside from having a bad RAM slot in the old motherboard, can anyone give me an idea of what might be wrong with the new one? Should I have installed software onto my HDD prior to putting the new CPU and MOBO in? Or is it possible that the new MOBO is just faulty?
Specs in-case needed
GPU - RTX 2080
CPU - i7-6700k (old) i7-9700k (new0
RAM - 16GB DDR4
MOBO - MSi B250 Gaming Pro (old) MSi Z390 Pro (new)
OS - Windows 10 64 bit
So as the title says I bought a new motherboard for my gaming PC. It's an MSi Z390 Pro and along with it I bought a new CPU which is an Intel i7-9700k. So I'm doing my thing, removing the old motherboard (which is also an MSi B250 model in case that's important) and I install the GPU, CPU, RAM, etc into the new mobo. Everything went in fine. No issues. That is until I turned the PC on. I was greeted by the "Preparing Automatic Repair" loop screen which would freeze after about 5-10 seconds every time I tried booting. If I spammed F10 I could get to BIOS but that's as far as I could go.
After about 2 hours of watching youtube tutorials on how to fix the issue (none of them even described the issue I was having) and googling for an answer I decided to just call it quits and put the old motherboard and CPU back in. Upon doing so and to my dismay I was not getting any display from my GPU or from my old MOBO with the HDMI cord hooked directly to it and the GPU taken out. So I tried pulling a stick of RAM and I restarted the PC and it booted up just fine. Now to clarify my PC was running perfectly fine yesterday. I was playing games on it no issues.
Thinking that the issue with the new MOBO was that same stick of RAM, I took everything out from the old motherboard again and put it in the new one this time without the stick of RAM I suspected to be causing the mischief. Same issue as before. Stuck in the loop.
Once again installed the old MOBO and parts and here I am typing this post. I might add that it's not one of the sticks of RAM that is faulty, its the slot apparently. I tested both in the slot that works and have had no issues.
So aside from having a bad RAM slot in the old motherboard, can anyone give me an idea of what might be wrong with the new one? Should I have installed software onto my HDD prior to putting the new CPU and MOBO in? Or is it possible that the new MOBO is just faulty?
Specs in-case needed
GPU - RTX 2080
CPU - i7-6700k (old) i7-9700k (new0
RAM - 16GB DDR4
MOBO - MSi B250 Gaming Pro (old) MSi Z390 Pro (new)
OS - Windows 10 64 bit
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