Not booting anymore after changing mobo


  1. Posts : 23
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
       #1

    Not booting anymore after changing mobo


    I had a hardware fault that I tracked down to being either the motherboard or the CPU, so I decided to just replace both. (And with that I also had to replace the memory.)
    My system had been set up with a dual-boot for win 7 and win 10, which IIRC I set up using EasyBCD.
    After replacing the hardware, I still managed to boot into win 10 just fine, and after replacing/updating several drivers it appears to working.

    However, when I try to boot into win 7 I have problems.
    It always prompts me with a "didn't run correctly" screen where it offers to boot into safe mode and all that, but when booting normally it gets to the "starting windows" screen, then it flashes a blue screen and jumps back to my BIOS's logo, and starts the boot process all over again.
    I tried booting into safe mode, and (although I wasn't present at the moment it screwed up) it still just went back to the start of the boot process.

    I'm not sure where the problem lies, nor how I should go about fixing it.
    Is it more likely that my copy of windows 7 got screwed up somehow and it needs to be repaired? Or is this a problem with the dual-boot not working with the new bios, so I need to fix that? Is win 7 having some sort of innate problem with compatibility with this new mobo?
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  2. Posts : 15,712
    7 X64
       #2

    compatibility with this new mobo
    maybe. You could try

    Make Windows 7 bootable after motherboard swap
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  3. Posts : 7,222
    Windows 7 HP 64
       #3

    You didn't give us the hardware specs of the old and new MoBo.

    New hardware requires some drivers that are not on the Win 7 files.
    You may need to add those drivers (normally USB3.x, SATA and NVMe) to the Win 7 installation. From Win 10 you can use Dism++ to do it.
    SIW2 is the one to help you on the task.
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