PC Won't Load Windows After Component Upgrade

[Lone Monkey]

Hey all!

I'm really stuck here. I just upgraded my PC today and now when I turn it on it won't load Windows. Prior to this the drive was working fine and so I'm thinking it may be one of the components, though I'm hoping it's just something I'm missing.

When I turn it on it act like it should up until Windows starts to load. i get to see the swirly colors around the word Windows for a split second before the screen goes dark and it goes into an endless boot loop.

At one point I disabled the reboot on fail to see what the BSOD code was. It was 0x0000007B

New parts added in -
ASUS Z97 Pro Gamer Motherboard
i5-4690k Processor @ 3.5ghz
MSI Radeon R9 380 4Ghz 256 bit DDR5

I am using the existing RAM, PSU, Optical Drive and Tower.

The hard disk I am using is a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB that I recently cloned from a 250GB HDD

I have tried to boot with both drives, with and without the video card in.

I get a single POST beep at boot, which some say is normal and some say is a DRAM issue.

I can get to the BIOS and have flashed them to the most current available. All RAM shows in the BIos as do both the drives as well as my fans and Processor. Things like Processor and Mobo temps are also displayed.

I am also able to boot into Ubuntu from a flash drive and run the OS fine from there.

Anyone have any BIOS setting suggestion that may be causing it to not read the drive(s) correctly or any other words of wisdom?

 

[digitaldoc]

New motherboard = new computer = new windows

You will need to reinstall Windows as a clean install onto a blank hard drive. You will need a new copy of Windows.

 

[MarkW]

Windows installs the drivers for the devices on the motherboard when it installs itself. Now you put a different motherboard in, and the drivers for the new one are not installed since you are still booting the install done on the previous motherboard.

You are going to need to reinstall Windows. And as part of that, the registry will be recreated, which then means that all of your programs that used the registry (which is pretty much all of them,) will need to be reinstalled as well.

And don't be surprised if Windows asks you to call Microsoft to discuss the fact that it is installed into a new compuer (since it sees a new motherboard as being a new computer).

 

[digitaldoc]

Brevity is the soul of wit...

 

[MarkW]

Not when people do not understand why...

 

[Lone Monkey]

Thanks for the quick info! For as long as I've been mucking about in computers, I never knew this one.