Think I messed up big, boys.

[dreadbeat]

I've replaced 2 identical make motherboards so when I went to make an upgrade I didn't even think about it and swapped the old board with the newer make one. I go to power on and I get an immediate bluescreen 0x0000007B.

I ran the startup repair with the new board in and tried for a system recovery but it errored out for a reason I can't recall. Now every time I boot it goes to startup repair without any prompt. I went back to the old motherboard and HDD and it does the same

When I open the diagnostics it all says: startup repair has tried several times but still cannot determine the cause of the problem.

How bad did I goof?

Specs:
Old/current mobo: M5A78L-MLX PLUS
New mobo: M5A99FX PRO R2.0
CPU: AMD FX-6300 Vishera 3.5ghz
GPU: MSI GTX 970
SSD: ADATA 256GB
Ram: 8gb
OS: windows 7 home premium

 

[Mr5oh]

Can you get into safe mode? If you can you can try and un-install drivers, and try it again.

If you can't get into safe mode, I would boot into Linux, get the data off the OS drive you need, and do a clean install.

Really if you switch motherboards you should do a clean install anyways. This ensures you avoid problems.

 

[rab33z]

Try toggling the ahci/ide sata mode in the bios

 

[dreadbeat]

I have the old board on now, there is no such toggle. And how do I boot into Linux if I can't get either of the drives past startup repair. And yea I realize it was a bonehead move

 

[rab33z]

There will be that option somewhere, but seeing as its doing it with both boards now I can't see it helping anyway, so go with Mr5oh suggestion. You can boot and run ubuntu from cd/dvd without having to install the os.

 

[Mr5oh]

There should be a toggle somewhere for the hard drive mode mentioned above.

As for Linux you will need a working PC to create a boot disc / usb. So you will need to do this from a friends PC or something. I would recommend Linux Mint, 64-bit download here. Then use unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive with the downloaded Linux ISO. unetbootin download here.

The only reason to boot into Linux is if you want to get data off the drive before doing a clean install again. If you aren't worried about your data, wipe it and install again. Also note you need another hard drive or another USB flash drive to store the data you will be backing up.

 

[dreadbeat]

Most aids 10 hours of my life for nothing. Friend let me borrow his recovery disk and everything's good now. Just not even going to fuck with the new mobo until I have the second card. I really appreciate the help and that you guys are always willing to help the technologically retarded. Cheers!