PC won't boot into Windows

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GrumDoes

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My computer stopped working a few months back, and I figured it had something to do with the cpu (it was way outdated so I was meaning to replace it anyhow), so I purchased a new motherboard and cpu. When I tried to boot back into my hard drive after placing the new pieces into the computer, it would show the windows loading logo, blue screen, and then restart, presenting the black screen with the system repair or start windows normally options. I tried reinstalling windows, yet even when I assign the primary boot device as the optical drive or flash drive (I've tried installing windows off of both) It redirects to attempt to boot off of the hard drive, and when I try to boot onto only the optical or flash drive it says reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key. I thought it wouldn't load off of the hard drive due to conflicting motherboard and cpu drivers, but when I wiped the hard drive through the console and I still had the same issue. I have tried a few things since then but I am overall stumped, can anyone help me figure this out??
 
Yeah it won't boot because of the conflicting drivers between the old and new motherboards as you said. I would try installing Windows onto a different hard drive. Is the hard drive and optical drive detected at all in the BIOS?
 
Yes, the bios detects everything, from the flash drives to optical to the hard drive. It doesnt seem to want to boot with any of the software that i put into said drives, as I cleared the previous os and drivers and reinstalled windows 7 through a friends computer (my cpu wouldnt boot off of the installation disc). I got the same exact result, windows loading screen interrupted by blue screen. When the hard drive was connected to my friends computer and we installed windows 7 he was able to boot into windows 7 through his bios. When I hooked it back into my motherboard it refused to boot.
 
So just to clarify you've used this HDD in another PC and Windows installs successfully on it, but when you try to install Windows fresh on your PC onto this HDD it doesn't work?

It won't boot if you install Windows onto it on another PC and then move the HDD over. Needs to be a clean install.
 
spirit said:
So just to clarify you've used this HDD in another PC and Windows installs successfully on it, but when you try to install Windows fresh on your PC onto this HDD it doesn't work?

It won't boot if you install Windows onto it on another PC and then move the HDD over. Needs to be a clean install.
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I cant even get it to install on this computer. It skips reading or booting off anything but the hard drive. If I can get it to actually boot off of the optical drive or flash drive i would be able to perform that clean install... Any idea why it might not be booting? I tried windows 10 in the case that the motherboard (a current model) was not compatible with windows 7.
 
It sounds to me like a bad SATA setting or chipset. Is it possible for you to reset the BIOS or update it? It's a long shot but it might also be RAM, it can sometimes do weird things like this. How many sticks of RAM do you have?
 
I have 2 sticks of ram that are 4 gigs each.. The bios detects both, but they were connected to the old motherboard when it stopped working, so is it possible that theyre corrupt in any way?
 
GrumDoes said:
I have 2 sticks of ram that are 4 gigs each.. The bios detects both, but they were connected to the old motherboard when it stopped working, so is it possible that theyre corrupt in any way?
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Could be. Try removing one or two in turn.
 
it does the same thing either way, one stick or the other. If it is actually the ram, its working enough to get the computer started but something else is interrupting the boot, or at least thats what I gathered. I currently have a blank hard drive and am attempting to boot off a windows 7 disk.
 
Sounds like Fast Boot and/or UEFI. Unplug all drives (just take the SATA connector out of the HDDs, let all cables be otherwise) except blank disk and DVD/USB drive.
 
I understood it as if you had multiple disks, one with OS and a blank one.
I can't see your boot order mentioned. Have you looked at that? Enter BIOS and look for it.
Also, the error you describe sounds like a bad boot disk, like the installation disk isn't bootable. Is it self made or official?
 
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