BSOD after Windows Logo apon Bootup

[tlowr4]

Well it's been a while since I've asked for help. Mainly because I haven't been here. Either way, I've come across an issue and I'll be damned if Google can help me. I'm hoping you guys might be able to.

Over the course of the last year or so I've been working on a friends system. It's gone from an old Core2Duo rig, upgrading bits and peices eventually over time to what it is now. Specs:

Intel Core i7 860 @ 2.8GHz
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4 (I think from memory. It's an 1156 board anyhow, of course, as is the chip).
8GB (4x2GB) of Ripjaws memory @ 1600MHz (BIOS automatically throttles it back to 1333MHz).
Paliat GeForce GTX560 SE with a Zalman cooler I ripped off an old GTS250.
2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit OEM

That's the basics anyhow. Point is, we took his old HDD from days of old and put it into this rig. Booted into BIOS fine, and loaded the OS. When the Windows symbol and "Starting Windows" message appears, the little orbs spin around about once, it freezes, bluescreens, and reboots.

The bluescreen only flashes onto the screen for a best a half second before it reboots.

Google provided that suggestion that it's a RAM voltage problem, whereby the RAM requires 1.65v, and the BIOS is only providing 1.5v. I checked this, the RAM only requries 1.5 anyhow, and that is what the BIOS is specifying as.

I've tried booting into Safe Mode, which also crashes. We also attempted a disk repair, and after waiting 1 and a half hours for it to fiddle about, got the message "Windows cannot repair this disk automatically" and then figured we'd like to help Microsoft out by sending a report.. which we did not.

Apart from that, I'm stumped. Any and all help is appreciated. No urgency on this one, as much as my friend would testify to that

Cheers.

 

[Gdog96]

I had this exact problem when I built my rig. I used a hard drive from another computer, which had windows 7 on it. I think its because you need a fresh copy of windows for that specific computer.

I bought a £30 SSD and put windows on there. Then I got that same hard drive and plugged it in, then formatted it in windows. Don't do this though, unless you want to buy a bigger SSD because the £30 wasn't big enough to use for longer than a month until it filled up.

Long story short, I think you will need a fresh windows installation on the drive, well, thats what sorted my, exactly the same, problem anyway.

Sorry I can't help more.

 

[tlowr4]

^ Sounds like a plan. However, I'm trying to conserve the files on the drive. When we upgraded from XP to 7, we installed and selected the 'custom' install, which saved the files. I'm not sure if this will do the same thing, or, in order for it to work, would I have to zero the drive and start *completely* fresh. I'm hoping it's the earlier, the latter would be a 'worst case scenario' thing.

Thanks for the help, Gdog ^.^ I'm still open to more suggestions.

 

[Gdog96]

I don't know if this would work, but if you do what I did, with the small capacity SSD, you could boot windows onto that temporarily, so that you could then plug in the old HDD and salvage off all the pictures and videos and stuff onto a memory stick or external HDD or something, and then format the old HDD and install windows onto that it and use the SSD for something else, or not at all, it was only a cheap temporary way to get into windows.
However, I don't know if this will work and I'm pretty sure things like games wont transfer over that easily.

Just a thought. This is about the end of my knowledge on this kind of thing though unfortunately.

Good luck 👍

 

[Grayfox]

What is the bugcheck code you get?

 

[DQuaN]

If you press F8 for the advanced boot options, instead of going to safe mode, choose "Disable automatic restart on system failure". This will make it display the blue screen and not restart. You can then check the error.

As others have said though, it is most likely that you are using a hard drive from another computer. You will need a fresh install.

 

[Infinital-NG]

The 2TB hard drive is new that you installed windows 7 on?

You have another older hard drive what has some version of windows on it?

If your win7 ultimate is on the new hard drive, look in bios boot settings. Some BIOS will let you setup a disk boot order. Disc 1 then Disc 2. Not just type of boot order (optical/hd/USB/network.) If you can pick a particular disc to boot up to then you should be able to select the 2TB and boot up fine. Once you get into windows grab what files you need move them over to the 2TB, format the old hard drive, and use as storage.

If your BIOS does not have that setting and both drives are SATA, try putting your 2TB drive in the lowest number sata slot (Sata 0 or 1) and put the other drive on a higher number. I've seen that work sometimes.

Still not working, go buy something like this http://www.walmart.com/ip/13216218?...1=g&wl2=&wl3=21486607510&wl4=&wl5=pla&veh=sem and hook your old drive up to it. Boot into windows without it hooked up. Once in windows attach usb drive adapter with your drive hooked up, copy data over, format drive, take usb adapter back (say it doesn't work unless you want to keep), then install the old drive into the computer as a normal drive.

More than likely your computer is trying to load windows from your old drive and none of the hardware in the HAL config matches so it's crashing.

Still having issues. Go download and make a cd boot disc, BartPe, hirem's boot loader, falcon there are a few out there. After making the cd, install both hard drives and you can boot into the PE disc and copy files from one hard drive to another.