Windows 8 freezes on boot, New Computer Build

annlake88

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Jan 30, 2014
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Please help, I just assembled a new computer and installed windows 8 on it, but after the bios prompt goes away during boot, the screen freezes when the blue windows logo appears with a loading animation. I could get the machine to boot successfully once when I removed one of my 8gb mem. sticks, but the system gave me the BSOD with a different error message after a few minutes on the desktop. Im not super technical, so any advice is really appreciated. Here are my specs:

Asus A55BM-E mobo
Thermaltake TR2 500W PSU
AMD A10-7850K
Ballistix 2x 8GB SPORT DDR3-1600 RAM
Hitachi Deckstar 80gb 7200rpm