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Just upgraded a few parts. freezes at starting windows and reboots

  • 26-07-2014 1:38am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭


    Hey everyone. Ive recently asked your help with ordering new parts for an upgrade and it went well thanks to you all.

    Now I'm here again asking about another problem. Ive just installed everything earlier and when I boot it up, it freezes at the exact moment everytime and it reboots. I tried resitting the new ram and unplugging the other hard drives and it still does the same thing.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 167 ✭✭Dowl88


    Hey everyone. Ive recently asked your help with ordering new parts for an upgrade and it went well thanks to you all.

    Now I'm here again asking about another problem. Ive just installed everything earlier and when I boot it up, it freezes at the exact moment everytime and it reboots. I tried resitting the new ram and unplugging the other hard drives and it still does the same thing.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.

    Did you reinstall windows? Most likley cause if you installed new hardware.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭Recurve360


    Is the ram in the correct slots? Motherboard manual should identify which slots to fit it in and also make sure there matching pairs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,553 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    Clear CMOS.

    Motherboard dependant, it may have a small button or an old fashioned jumper.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭LeakingLava


    Dowl88 wrote: »
    Did you reinstall windows? Most likley cause if you installed new hardware.

    Didnt reinstall. Do i need to when upgrasing hardware?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭LeakingLava


    Recurve360 wrote: »
    Is the ram in the correct slots? Motherboard manual should identify which slots to fit it in and also make sure there matching pairs

    Yes definitely checked this


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭LeakingLava


    Varik wrote: »
    Clear CMOS.

    Motherboard dependant, it may have a small button or an old fashioned jumper.

    Ill try this when I get home. Thanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭LeakingLava


    A friend did tell me that i should reinstall windows. He said that he's about 90 percent sure that this is my problem. Something about windows 7 not liking new hardware, etc.

    Kinda makes sense in my head. Is this in any way correct?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 167 ✭✭Dowl88


    A friend did tell me that i should reinstall windows. He said that he's about 90 percent sure that this is my problem. Something about windows 7 not liking new hardware, etc.

    Kinda makes sense in my head. Is this in any way correct?

    Yea only way unfortunately as windows saves the drivers of the old system. Its like putting the old hard drive into a friends system and expecting it to work. Have you tried a live cd/usb like ubuntu to see if that works? What parts did you upgrade? Motherboard might need an. Update as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭LeakingLava


    Dowl88 wrote: »
    Yea only way unfortunately as windows saves the drivers of the old system. Its like putting the old hard drive into a friends system and expecting it to work. Have you tried a live cd/usb like ubuntu to see if that works? What parts did you upgrade? Motherboard might need an. Update as well.

    Alright. I understand. Mobo, cpu, ram, psu, ssd. Im gonna be buying a new os and install it on the ssd. Thanks guys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Didnt reinstall. Do i need to when upgrasing hardware?
    You sure do. This caught me recently too :).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,026 ✭✭✭Wossack


    Didnt reinstall. Do i need to when upgrasing hardware?

    typically only when the motherboard changes (in my experience)

    dont need to when adding a hard drive, more ram, or swapping graphics cards etc


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,087 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    It can be doable even if you are changing almost everything, but you would have had to have uninstalled every single hardware specific driver etc beforehand on the old pc and even then there are no guarantees that windows will successfully reconfigure itself on the new hardware. I did manage to get an AM3 install working on an 1156 build last year but it was a right pain altogether, a clean install really is the way to go every time unless you really, really have no other choice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭LeakingLava


    marco_polo wrote: »
    It can be doable even if you are changing almost everything, but you would have had to have uninstalled every single hardware specific driver etc beforehand on the old pc and even then there are no guarantees that windows will successfully reconfigure itself on the new hardware. I did manage to get an AM3 install working on an 1156 build last year but it was a right pain altogether, a clean install really is the way to go every time unless you really, really have no other choice.

    Got everything working earlier. New install was the solution. Thanks a lot guys :).


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