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Question PC Constantly Bluescreening And Freezing On Startup After Upgrading Parts

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So I recently upgraded my pc with new hardware. This included a new cpu, gpu, power supply, a new motherboard and ram. All i did was switch these parts out with the old ones and started up the computer again. At first the computer would only boot into bios every single time and would constantly freeze in bios or when trying to leave bios, including after changing settings. I changed boot order and now it boots to windows, but if I go to bios the freezing still happens when trying to exit after making changes.

After booting to windows it tried to automatically repair just to run into a blue screen and then restart and continue this infinite cycle. Sometimes if freezes after this too. On the times I'm able to get to the automatic repair screen where it says "Your pc did not start correctly" and asks to either restart or advanced options, when i go to click on advanced options to then choose to "factory reset while keeping my personal files" I can't because it requires a Microsoft account password and the option isn't given anywhere to put it in. I see the spot where it should be but there just isn't any white space to type in. And if I wait around too long in this area I eventually get another blue screen. About 40% of the time my pc freezes during a bluescreen and doesn't automatically restart. Only once was i able to put in the password to system reset, just to immediately get a blue screen again after.

So I cannot even log into my pc, all the bluescreens and freezes stop me from doing anything. All I can really do anything in is in bios....if that doesn't freeze either.

Some of the BSOD stop codes I've got are as follows.

- system thread exception not handled

- critical process died

- irql not less or equal

- bad system config info

- windows page fault in nonpaged area

- memory management

- windows reference by pointer

That should be most of them. And yeah I know it's not looking good.

At this point I'm so fed up with all this I might just buy a completely new windows 10 installation for this pc, as like an idiot I lost the original USB installation device for windows 10 when I first built this pc years ago.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks
 
When swapping out the motherboard or CPU, the proper procedure is to completely reinstall Windows. You can change a video card, memory, and add storage without a fresh installation, but changing a CPU or motherboard will cause problems. Hope this cleared that up, take care.