Windows BSOD help

[Plank]

i tried to overclock my pc. went into bios and set the thingy to optimal or something idk. all i know is that the asus symbol turned red, how cool. so i tried to start up windows but nothing happened. Yay. i went back to the bios and reset evrything. nothing happened again. just that annoying swirling loading screen. did i try startup repair? yes. what about system image recovery? well the guys i bought this pc from diddnt give me any form of windows except the one thats installed so i guess thats not happening. after i had questioned my life choices i decided to reset it. that ofcourse diddnt work either. why would it. windows was just teasing me at this point. so out of frustration i hit the restart button really hard. that felt really good, but my short lived moment of happiness was swiftly taken from me by the legendary blue screen of death. yup.....im done

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Try resetting the CMOS , take out the battery for a minute or to the reinsert and try a boot.

 

[Plank]

gtx 1080
i7 something k
Z170 deluxe
two ssd's
some aio cooler
and a floppy disk drive for lols

 

[COLGeek]

Try this, find your SATA mode settings and change to the IDE setting. Changing to the BIOS' optimal setting may have changed to AHCI mode and if Windows isn't configured to use that mode, you will get BSOD/restart errors. Worth a shot.

 

[Plank]

i dont know how to answer you as im new to this site but i allready tried that

 

[COLGeek]

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[COLGeek]

i dont know how to answer you as im new to this site but i allready tried that

Are you referring to the reset the BIOS suggestion or the IDE/AHCI mode suggestion?

 

[Plank]

well i went into the bios again and stumbeled over the erase ssd feature and it said that the ssd that windows is on is frozen while the other one is active?

 

[Plank]

ahh im on mobile now and there is no reply button here so i have to say it here but i was referring to the resetting bios by taking out the battery

 

[COLGeek]

ahh im on mobile now and there is no reply button here so i have to say it here but i was referring to the resetting bios by taking out the battery

Understood. Check your BIOS to ensure that the desired SSD (the one with Windows on it) is still the default boot device as well.

 

[Plank]

yeah its still the boot device. evry time i try to boot off it i get instant blue screen

 

[COLGeek]

Pull the GTX out and try to boot the system using the integrated video adapter. Trying to rule out a hardware issue with a possibly OCed GPU.

 

[Plank]

the best thing to do now is to reset the pc but since it wont let me do it i guess ill never get it to boot again. might even have to buy a new copy of windows

 

[COLGeek]

You should be able to re-install the same Windows product key you have installed now, on the same system. This shouldn't require a new license.

 

[Plank]

oh ok then, how do i do that?

and i tried taking out the gtx but no difference except that the windows loading screen was higher res... guess thats a good thing