New MB and CPU and problems

[bonanza2000]

So I got a new MB and CPU and hooked it up to the old system going from a 1366 board/chip to a 1155 board/chip. I only hooked up the SSD and the ODD to see how things went and I got :

reboot & select proper boot drive.

I put the windows disk in but it wants to install like a new version of windows over the existing one and I don't want to do that.

I checked the bios and it says ACHI and the SSD is the 1st disk it looks at but somehow things aren't gee-hawing (southern for it aint working). Windows is on that drive and with the windows disk in there was a repair option and that didn't seem to do anything. I could get to a dos prompt and I notice an X drive. Not sure where that came from but I can get to the C drive and see stuff.

not sure what do next.

maybe it is drivers? Should I use Qflash from BIOS to update drivers? Or where should I go from here?

Gigabyte board, everything in the BIOS looks good. RAM looks good, CPU stuff looks good.

stumped here

[sswilson]

You're trying to boot off of the new motherboard without having to reload windows? Silly question, but did you try booting without the windows disk in the ODD?

Was the previous install done AHCI or was it in IDE mode? If it was in IDE mode I'm not sure if you'll be able to get it to boot unless you switch to ide mode and then do the AHCI reg hack (google is your friend).

[bonanza2000]

yeah the first boot was without the windows disk. no joy.

I don't think it was with this computer but I will try to change it to IDE and see if that works. I have the IDE to ACHI switch instructions because I muff that up on another computer.

[bonanza2000]

tried switching to IDE and that didn't help. still get reboot message.

[gingerbee]

weird i have done this many times on so many pc's aslong as it's 7 it has always booted for me first time then you just run driver sweeper to remove all your old drivers then install new ones and your off in fact i did it today with the new lappie i just bought

[sswilson]

Did you try it with just the OS boot disk plugged in?

[bonanza2000]

Just tried it with only the SSD connected (which has win 7-64 on it) and no joy. same thing. reboot & select proper boot drive.

[bonanza2000]

well I ended up just reinstalling windows. thanks for trying guys.

[sswilson]

Yeah, not much else you could try. You checked all of the easy things.