New mobo = blue screen upon boot

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

Been playing with this for a few hours and I'm stumped. I'll try to make this short.

Installed a new mobo for more ram/oc'ing purposes; Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L. My old mobo was an Intel DG31PR. Current CPU is a Q8400, running windows 7 64 bit ultimate, corsair ddr2 800 4x2G. I planned on just swapping the mobo out for the new one, and running the windows 7 disc to repair the OS for any missing drivers, etc. Upon booting from cdrom I get "starting windows" followed by a blue screen. I copied the windows 7 disc to a usb, and booted from usb; still the same problem. The disc is good, I just used it last week to reinstall windows on my laptop. I've tried booting with just one stick of ram and still the same problem. The only thing I haven't tried is removing my nvidia 480 and booting, though I didn't think that would really matter. At this rate I'm down to just reinstalling my old mobo, backing everything up(I have tons of itunes/programs, and FFXIV that I would NOT want to re dl), and then wiping the HDD clean and trying again with the new motherboard.

Any ideas what this could be to avoid this backing up mess? I'm off to work now and won't be back for 7-8 hours. Any help would be really appreciated.

[njitjk68]

When you change motherboard, you need to reinstall windows or you run into problems like you described.

[Killgannon]

When you change motherboard, you need to reinstall windows or you run into problems like you described.

This. Have fun.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

Bah. FML. All these threads online about not reinstalling OS if you swap a mobo with windows 7 is all BS I guess?

If so, is there any way to get into that HDD aside from hooking it back up to the original mobo? My next idea was run out and buy a SSD and hook that up, install OS, then somehow get into my hdd and copy files over.

[Binkie]

Bah. FML. All these threads online about not reinstalling OS if you swap a mobo with windows 7 is all BS I guess?

If so, is there any way to get into that HDD aside from hooking it back up to the original mobo? My next idea was run out and buy a SSD and hook that up, install OS, then somehow get into my hdd and copy files over.

I just built a new computer and threw my old hard drive in with brand new motherboard/everything and it loaded up everything just fine with zero problems. I did end up reformatting later because i was paranoid something was mixed up somewhere that would sneak up and bite me in the ass at a later point.

But I could've just been lucky. I know I've tried this before with XP and it didn't work out.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

I just built a new computer and threw my old hard drive in with brand new motherboard/everything and it loaded up everything just fine with zero problems. I did end up reformatting later because i was paranoid something was mixed up somewhere that would sneak up and bite me in the ass at a later point.

But I could've just been lucky. I know I've tried this before with XP and it didn't work out.

Yea that's what I was hopping would happen. I've read a lot of threads that say windows 7 has wayyy more drivers loaded onto the hdd that can actually boot up other chipsets, and using the OS disc, you can repair it to work just fine. Clearly that isn't my case though for whatever reason. I just need to get on there and get my few programs, itunes data, and ffxiv off of it. I've been wanting to try out SSD so this looks like a decent time to upgrade.

edit: Just ordered a SSD and overnighted it. Now to figure out if I can get that data off my hdd without the old mobo...

[Evanos]

Yea that's what I was hopping would happen. I've read a lot of threads that say windows 7 has wayyy more drivers loaded onto the hdd that can actually boot up other chipsets, and using the OS disc, you can repair it to work just fine. Clearly that isn't my case though for whatever reason. I just need to get on there and get my few programs, itunes data, and ffxiv off of it. I've been wanting to try out SSD so this looks like a decent time to upgrade.

edit: Just ordered a SSD and overnighted it. Now to figure out if I can get that data off my hdd without the old mobo...

You should be able to do this pretty easily. Unplug your old HDD and plug in your SSD. Install windows onto the SSD (which I'd hope you'd do anyway) and then after you have your windows running plug in the old hard drive and everything should be there and fine. I do this all the time when I'm formatting my PC. Put all of my data onto one of my hard drives. Format & reinstall on my SSD, then plug back in my data drive and everything is fine again (my situation can actually be a tiny more complicated than I just explained because I have a RAID, but all my non RAID drives work that easily, you shouldn't have any problems).

[Balthasar]

Just setup your old drive as a secondary drive when you install the SSD. Your computer will recognize it and you can access it as if it were a giant flash drive, only it's SATA and not USB. (If it's old enough to be an IDE interface instead of SATA, you'll need to remove the jumper as well.)

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

Sweet, thanks a lot. I'll sleep easy tonight knowing it should boot up fine. Question though; a formatted drive on my old mobo isn't able to be reformatted using my new one by simple booting from my cdrom drive using my OS disc? This is the only thing I'm not sure of and scares me, since it would the new mobo is defective. I expected to get to the reformat screen using my windows 7 OS disc by booting from the cdrom, but kept getting blue screen.

Edit: Nm, unplugged my hdd and just booted up from cdrom. It works fine.

[Kais]

slight hijack since I don't wanna make a new thread/bump a way older one

I have two hdd's now and I have a new motherboard coming in soon. Should I
A) move all my music out from c: to d: and just reinstall windows on c:
or
B) move all my movies/games from d: to c:, install windows on d: and delete all the old OS shit off c

[Balthasar]

slight hijack since I don't wanna make a new thread/bump a way older one

I have two hdd's now and I have a new motherboard coming in soon. Should I
A) move all my music out from c: to d: and just reinstall windows on c:
or
B) move all my movies/games from d: to c:, install windows on d: and delete all the old OS shit off c

Either way would work. With B, you technically wouldn't even have to delete the old OS shit off as long as you're not trying to boot from that HDD (and d: is listed before c: in the boot sequence). Personally I would do method A though, because i'm a little OCD and wouldn't want unused Windows files taking up space on a drive i'm only using for storage/backup, and i'm not sure if it would continue listing the HDD with the new reinstall as drive d: which would just bother me to hell.

[Kais]

Alright, booting from disc it is

And on an unrelated note, when would be a good time setting up RAID 0, before I reinstall Windows 7 or after that + installing mobo drivers?
edit: I'm running IDE right now, if I switched a HDD to RAID, it wouldn't anything off it would it?

[Icari]

you always setup the raid before you install the OS, this will also format the drives.

[Kais]

Well shit. Is there a way to switch them into RAID one by one without backing up on an external HDD?

[Bikpik]

Been playing with this for a few hours and I'm stumped. I'll try to make this short.

Installed a new mobo for more ram/oc'ing purposes; Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L. My old mobo was an Intel DG31PR. Current CPU is a Q8400, running windows 7 64 bit ultimate, corsair ddr2 800 4x2G. I planned on just swapping the mobo out for the new one, and running the windows 7 disc to repair the OS for any missing drivers, etc. Upon booting from cdrom I get "starting windows" followed by a blue screen. I copied the windows 7 disc to a usb, and booted from usb; still the same problem. The disc is good, I just used it last week to reinstall windows on my laptop. I've tried booting with just one stick of ram and still the same problem. The only thing I haven't tried is removing my nvidia 480 and booting, though I didn't think that would really matter. At this rate I'm down to just reinstalling my old mobo, backing everything up(I have tons of itunes/programs, and FFXIV that I would NOT want to re dl), and then wiping the HDD clean and trying again with the new motherboard.

Any ideas what this could be to avoid this backing up mess? I'm off to work now and won't be back for 7-8 hours. Any help would be really appreciated.

I just upgraded to windows7 as well, and I ran into an issue if you're using both sata and ide (either DVDRom or HD) on your mobo then 7 wouldn't install, that may be the issue for you as well.

[Icari]

Well shit. Is there a way to switch them into RAID one by one without backing up on an external HDD?

there is no way i know of to make a raid and keep the data on the hard drives. Why do you want a raid setup? you could take a look into a software raid instead of hardware and see if that may help, i have not done this myself.

[Kais]

there is no way i know of to make a raid and keep the data on the hard drives. Why do you want a raid setup? you could take a look into a software raid instead of hardware and see if that may help, i have not done this myself.

well I heard raid offers better performance, so I thought it would be best to switch. I was hoping to switch to raid/format one hdd, switch all my data onto that hdd, then format the other. I'm guessing that's impossible, yeah?

[Icari]

all hard drives that are in the raid must be setup at the same time, you might try some googling to find out more on raids and why you want one in your system. Do you have a RAID card in your system?

[Kais]

Yeah, I believe my motherboard supports RAID. I guess I'll just continue to use IDE until I have an external HDD then, thanks a bunch!