Need Help with my i7

[fg55365]

I have a gigabyte GA-H97-HD3 and it’s been running perfectly with my i5-4590. Recently I bought an i7-4790K and when I put the i7 in, the PC kept going into a boot loop and wouldn’t start properly. Eventually when the PC would stop looping, the windows 10 loading circle would appear and then suddenly stop. It kept doing this. It won’t boot into windows and when I put the i5 back it, the PC works fine. I made sure my BIOS was up to date and I tested the i7 on another PC and it worked fine. I even reset the CMOS and that didn’t work either. Am I missing something?

Also, before windows started loading, I am able to load into the bios but that about all I can do with the i7. Please help.

 

[theonerm2]

It sounds like an issue with your windows installation. See if you can boot with Windows 10 setup on a usb flash drive. If the setup will boot I strongly recommend you back up your files first before reinstalling windows.

 

[fg55365]

It sounds like an issue with your windows installation. See if you can boot with Windows 10 setup on a usb flash drive. If the setup will boot I strongly recommend you back up your files first before reinstalling windows.

I've also tried using a different boot drive all together with my gigabyte motherboard to test that theory but it was also in successful. I even tried no boot drive and the PC was still boot looping.

 

[Wolfshadw]

Just to confirm, you are running a BIOS version of at least F4? While the Intel Core I7-4790(non-K) as well as the Intel Core I5-4590(non-K) are compatible with BIOS version F2, the Intel Core I7-4790K requires at least version F4.

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[theonerm2]

I'd look for bent pins. Just to make sure there isn't an issue with the motherboard itself. I doubt there are any bent pins because the other processor works but it's still worth a look. Never hurts to look. Also if you updated to the latest bios it's a beta so there might be issues with that bios. I'd go down to Bios F6 just to make sure it's not a bios issue.

 

[fg55365]

Just to confirm, you are running a BIOS version of at least F4? While the Intel Core I7-4790(non-K) as well as the Intel Core I5-4590(non-K) are compatible with BIOS version F2, the Intel Core I7-4790K requires at least version F4.

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-Wolf sends

I was running a BIOS Version of F8 before I put the i7 in. When I had the problems I put the old CPU in and Updated it to the F9c version which still didn't fix the problem.

 

[fg55365]

I'd look for bent pins. Just to make sure there isn't an issue with the motherboard itself. I doubt there are any bent pins because the other processor works but it's still worth a look. Never hurts to look. Also if you updated to the latest bios it's a beta so there might be issues with that bios. I'd go down to Bios F6 just to make sure it's not a bios issue.

There were no bent pins. Also with regards to downgrading the BIOS, I think update F7 prevents you from being able to downgrade the BIOS. I tried downgrading to BIOS version F4 but it wouldn't let me because it was old.