Changed my motherboard, now windows wont boot?

[willjiggs]

As the title suggests, I switched motherboards and now windows 10 wont boot. The pc gets past BIOS, and shows the windows logo. However it does not get past this. This spinning loading wheel does not show (I have left the pc running for a few hours) and neither does the screen go black. I cannot tell if the screen is actually doing anything or is just frozen. This install of windows works fine in my other pc.

I did some research and tried to boot into 'safe mode'. The windows logo appears again, and beneath it, the words 'preparing automatic repair'. Again, no loading wheel is shown.

If you could help at all that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

When you switch boards it's best to perform a clean install , this is common when it's not performed.

 

[BadAsAl]

Did you keep everything else the same or did you change CPU's as well? Did you make sure your SATA settings are correct in the BIOS on the new board? Likely need to be AHCI.

If all else fails you can get this to work but you need to boot the hard drive on the old motherboard (or any other one that will let it boot), then run SYSPREP on it before installing it on the new motherboard. Be prepared as it will boot with no custom drivers and you will need to have them ready to install so I would download at least the chipset and network drivers to the hard drive before you do SYSPREP so you will have them when you boot it.

 

[BadAsAl]

SR-71 is correct that starting fresh is best, however, I have done this successfully even going from AMD to Intel and a rebuild was going to be way more work. And everything works just fine on the new build.

 

[willjiggs]

When you switch boards it's best to perform a clean install , this is common when it's not performed.

I have just tried doing that using a USB stick, but I still cannot get past that logo when installing windows.