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Offline flyndung

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Re: New motherboard and CPU...windows won't Start. Suggestions?
« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2017, 12:21:30 PM »
Quote from: Dobs on March 29, 2017, 07:48:54 AM
Hey Vinkman.

The path you took is the path I always use for major system upgrades.  I then keep my old drive "as is" for the next few months until I'm sure I have everything I want off of it. I then format it and use it as a storage drive or pull it and keep it for my next upgrade cycle.

Probably the biggest difference in boot is if you were set to SATA: AHCI or not in previous build/hardware.  Windows needs a setting for AHCI to boot (which gets set during install) which will become noticeable during boot cycle (usually as a BSOD).  If your previous build used IDE and your new build defaulted to AHCI, then you wouldn't boot.  This is a SATA setting (usually IDE or AHCI are the choices).

That's what SYSPREP removes so when you put the HD in a new system it will boot up with all the old drivers removed and will install to the new systems settings without issue
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Re: New motherboard and CPU...windows won't Start. Suggestions?
« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2017, 01:07:46 PM »
Sysprep removes drivers, but the AHCI/IDE issue is something that window ONLY installs if you are AHCI to start with, i.e. it see's the AHCI and installs the required support files. Not so sure Sysprep covers the Bios change to AHCI.

If you have an OS with IDE, and then switch to AHCI (Newer), then the machine BSOD on boot.

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Re: New motherboard and CPU...windows won't Start. Suggestions?
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2017, 04:08:12 PM »
not related but worth knowing.   You can re-activate windows 10 if you link it to a microsoft account.  I used the media creation tool and copied it to a USB flash stick.

I swapped out mobo, cpu, ram, gfx card and added an SSD as the boot device.   When installing, skip the product key bit and then go into activation > troubleshoot and enter in your e-mail/password.   

Didn't want to have to fork out for another licence when I had win 10 pro from a free win7 upgrade. 
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Re: New motherboard and CPU...windows won't Start. Suggestions?
« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2017, 06:23:10 PM »
Quote from: Dobs on March 29, 2017, 01:07:46 PM
Sysprep removes drivers, but the AHCI/IDE issue is something that window ONLY installs if you are AHCI to start with, i.e. it see's the AHCI and installs the required support files. Not so sure Sysprep covers the Bios change to AHCI.

If you have an OS with IDE, and then switch to AHCI (Newer), then the machine BSOD on boot.

theres a simple regedit for that too
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