OS fail after installing new mb/cpu.

[Dbyrd]

I inatalled a new mb and cpu yesterday and instantly had trouble. It took around 10 minutes to load my start up programs and the screen resolution was very low like my graphics card drivers weren't loaded. I installed the mb drivers and restarted to find out nothing had changed. I couldn't get my nvidia programs to open and everything kept crashing. I tried to look into the bios and make sure all of my settings were right, they were so I just did a reboot and hoped for the best. Nothing had changed so again I restarted and booted to bios. Suddenly the hdd that contains my OS changed from SATA: wdxxxxxx to PATA: a bunch of garbled characters that dont look like letters. I restart to bios and it all looks normal but now I get "disk read error". I restart again and it's labeled PATA again so I go ahead and boot it and it boots Winki which came with my mb drivers. Im at a loss and all I can think to do is get a windows 7 disk and reinstall. Luckily all of my important stuff is on a secondary hdd. I'm wondering though does anyone have any idea what may have happened? Was it the hardware that caused it or just a coincidence?

 

[plaintuts]

The OS is still using the old motherboard settings... You will need to reinstall the OS

 

[delellod123]

Your hard drive is most def SATA, not PATA as that is very outdated at this point. You would need to insert a windows disk or USB prior to booting your computer. Enter BIOS and tell it to boot from disk or usb first. it should be called boot order or drive order or something similar. make sure SATA is selected. Boot into windows installation... install windows. When windows is done, install all drivers, specifically motherboard drivers first. Chipset driver, Sata drivers, etc...

 

[cst1992]

OS is tied to motherboard. Lose motherboard, lose OS.
Too bad you didn't know this, but normally when you install a new motherboard, you get a blue screen when loading your OS, it's not compatible with new motherboard(maybe designed that way; or Microsoft would have gone bankrupt).