i7-7700k w/ Z270E MOBO refuses to boot to any drive, only to BIOS

[TheAccessGranted]

Hey everyone. Been dealing with an issue for the past while here. Basically it started with startups being very rocky and freezing very often during the BIOS splash screen. Occasionally I would get into the BIOS but it would freeze within a few seconds. So, I after plenty of troubleshooting (Reseating RAM, GPU Reinstallation, SATA cable swap ups, CPU/Primary Mobo PSU cable checks, etc) I decided to take off my cooler and reseat my CPU.

After I finished reinstalling the CPU, I to the BIOS everytime and no longer freezes. However, I am completely unable to boot to any drive. I have 4 drives, 1x HDD with windows on it, 1x SSD with windows on it, and 2x HDD for personal files. All 4 drives are recognized correctly by the BIOS and all 4 drives were working before I upgraded the PC with the new CPU, MOBO, and RAM. (Haswell -> Kaby Lake upgrade)

When I attempt to boot to the SSD w/ windows, it simply puts me right back into the BIOS. However, the HD with windows just crashes during booting and gives me a windows error. I have tried all 4 SATA cables on the windows SSD and HD.
The ASUS ROG Z270E MOBO does have LED indicators to show off any trouble, but none of them are lit up.

Part List:

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  CPU: i7-7700k
  CPU COOLER: Hyper 212 Evo
  RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws 16GB (8x2)
  MOBO: ASUS ROG Z270E GAMING
  GPU: MSI R9 390 (I am aware of this bottleneck, planning on replacing this soon)

Thanks guys.

 

[iosif_betsis]

first do a bios hard reset unplug the pc from the power get out the cmos battery and holding power key for 30 secs put back the battery and the power do clean install in windows and then probably you are ok if you are not leave a messege

 

[TheAccessGranted]

first do a bios hard reset unplug the pc from the power get out the cmos battery and holding power key for 30 secs put back the battery and the power do clean install in windows and then probably you are ok if you are not leave a messege

Cleared CMOS by taking the battery out this time. Upon reboot I got an error screen that displayed my CPU, RAM, and SSD correctly recognized. Error is: “After setting up Intel(R) Optane memory or the RAID configuration was built, SATA mode selection must be changed to RAID mode to avoid unknown issues” Booting to SSD still throws me back into bios

I currently don't have access to the computer and wont for about 5 days unfortunately, but I when I do I will reinstall Windows. I just find it hard to believe that something like that could be whats wrong with it when the SSD was having no trouble at all before the upgrade.

 

[James Mason]

upgrading the mobo typically requires a windows reinstall, but it's not normally as bad as the inability to access windows.

 

[TheAccessGranted]

upgrading the mobo typically requires a windows reinstall, but it's not normally as bad as the inability to access windows.

Really now? Hmm. Interesting. I'll read up on that, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

 

[James Mason]

upgrading the mobo typically requires a windows reinstall, but it's not normally as bad as the inability to access windows.

Really now? Hmm. Interesting. I'll read up on that, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Mobos have extremely specific drivers that will usually not play nice with a different mobo. So unless you replaced it with a same model, it would start acting up in all kinds of ways.