Uhhh, help?

[Burnyfluff]

So my brother just bought a used Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-DS2P motherboard and paired it with those following parts:

AMD Athlon X4 845

4gb+2gb DDR3-1333MHz

Sparkle GeForce GTX 560 SE

Kingston 120GB Sata III SSD

Toshiba 500GB Hard Drive

Tracer Highlander 600W psu that i had to borrow to my brother, because his power supply didn't have two 4pin connectors, which that board requires.

And we're having way too many issues.

When we finally plugged everything (including front panel connectors) into the board, the power switch just refused to work. So, i just used my screw driver to turn it on. And it did turn on, but after showing the gigabyte logo and windows 7 booting animation, a blue screen appeared for half a second before the gigabyte logo showed up again. And it just kept looping. I checked the bios, and made sure it's booting from the SSD. After doing that, nothing changed. I'm also pretty sure all the cables are plugged in nicely. So uh... Help?

[LukeSavenije]

checked the windows install? cleared the cmos? reseated everything? any error codes?

[NelizMastr]

You did do a clean install of Windows right? W7 really doesn't like booting an existing install from a different chipset and CPU maker/generation.

 

 

[Burnyfluff]

2 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

checked the windows install? cleared the cmos? reseated everything? any error codes?

The boot drive was working on his previous, pretty old Gigabyte lga775 board. I haven't done anything with the cmos yet, i think so, windows black boot screen says something about a hardware change.

[Burnyfluff]

2 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

You did do a clean install of Windows right? W7 really doesn't like booting an existing install from a different chipset and CPU maker/generation.

 

 

No, not a clear one. Win7 was already installed on the ssd.

[TempestCatto]

Also make sure that you have your drive set to the same as the old board in the BIOS. So for example, if in the old board's BIOS it was in IDE mode, you cannot change it to AHCI mode without a fresh install (might be able to get away with just drivers. don't know personally, i always just reinstall). You would get errors just like you described with it crashing and booting at the startup animation. But regardless, I'd recommend a fresh install of W7 as @NelizMastr suggested.

[Burnyfluff]

Just now, TempestCatto said:

Also make sure that you have your drive set to the same as the old board in the BIOS. So for example, if in the old board's BIOS it was in IDE mode, you cannot change it to AHCI mode without a fresh install (might be able to get away with just drivers. don't know personally, i always just reinstall). You would get errors just like you described with it crashing and booting at the startup animation. But regardless, I'd recommend a fresh install of W7 as @NelizMastr suggested.

Yes, it is set to the same drive, Although i think the old motherboard was limited to SATA2. And oof. We can install it all over again, but i really don't like doing it lol

[NelizMastr]

14 minutes ago, Burnyfluff said:

Yes, it is set to the same drive, Although i think the old motherboard was limited to SATA2. And oof. We can install it all over again, but i really don't like doing it lol

The SATA controller drivers from the 775 board aren't compatible with the new board, and I don't personally think it's worth it to keep troubleshooting this. If you know the W7 key, do a clean W10 install. W7 is going EOL january 2020 so it's time to say goodbye.

[Wormhole]

Take that 2GB stick of ram out

[Burnyfluff]

UPDATE:

Yes, it's windows 7's fault. When i plugged the boot drive from my own pc with windows 10, it started with no problem. So yeah, it might be time to upgrade. Thank y'all for the help.