MB Swap with Win7 not going good

[CU]

I just swapped my old MB and CPU for a Biostar TP67B+ and 2500K. I made sure I was using the standard sata drivers before I shutdown my computer. Windows tried but wouldn't start, but offered me the choice to repair. But it couldn't repair it. The problem event says StartupRepairOffline. It also says Signature04: 276, Signature05: AutoFailover, Signature06: 1, and Signature07: BadPatch. Suggestions welcome.

P.S. I am upgrading the rig in my sig.

 

[CU]

In the Diagnosis details it says "Root cause found: A patch is preventing the system from starting."

 

[CU]

Cannot boot to safe mode. Just takes me to the repair or start normally screen.

 

[CU]

I forgot to set the SATA to AHCI in the bios. It was set to IDE. Wndows has loaded. Now to do some driver updating.

 

[SimMike2]

I forgot to set the SATA to AHCI in the bios. It was set to IDE. Wndows has loaded. Now to do some driver updating.

What type of old motherboard and CPU did you have? Was it dramatically different than what you upgraded to?

 

[Matt1970]

95% of the time, if not higher, you will need to format and reload after a motherboard swap.

 

[Nothinman]

95% of the time, if not higher, you will need to format and reload after a motherboard swap.

That was true with XP and older, but Vista and Win7 handle major hardware changes much better than they do.

 

[abaez]

How long have you spent doing this? Why even deal with the headache? Just reinstall and have no issues.

 

[Bateluer]

That was true with XP and older, but Vista and Win7 handle major hardware changes much better than they do.

Its generally true of Vista and 7 as well.

 

[Nothinman]

Its generally true of Vista and 7 as well.

It's nowhere near as simple as it is with Linux, but it's a helluva lot better than XP and depends heavily on the hardware and drivers in play.

 

[CU]

It wasn't a headache at all. It took me about 30 minutes. And 10 minutes of that was me letting Windows run the repair which did nothing. And another 10 minutes was me trying to fix it ie. try safe mode, google search, etc. Then while looking at the bios, it hit me to check the sata options in the bios. That was the key. If I would have checked it first it would have been a simple upgrade, under 10 minutes easy. I just assumed it would be set to AHCI in 2011 not IDE. Even with my goof it was way quicker than a full re-install of windows and reconfigure and install other software. That would have been 1+ hours.

As for my upgrade it was a big change in hardware type. I went from a ASRock 939Dual-SATA2, the one with the fully functional AGP slot and PCI-express slot, to a Biostar TP67B+. Windows 7 handled it very smoothly. I booted to windows it found the hardware and rebooted again. I then installed the NIC drivers and played Borderlands online for 2-3 hours without any problems. My fps basically doubled.

 

[sham63]

That was true with XP and older, but Vista and Win7 handle major hardware changes much better than they do.

I would say more with xp than earlier. I never had any issues swapping out motherboards until xp. After I found out about setting the ide controller to the generic Microsoft drivers it was easier. Win 95 and 98 were very good at booting up and running after a swap, they just did not care. I haven't tried it with Win7 yet, so I do not know how it will go. I would probably do the hadr drive controller thing just to be safe.

Jim

 

[FishAk]

How long have you spent doing this? Why even deal with the headache? Just reinstall and have no issues.

a full re-install of windows and reconfigure and install other software. That would have been 1+ hours.

1 + hours?

I recently upgraded memory on a Vista Laptop, and switched it to W7.

It took me 5 days (more than 60 hours) to load all my programs, complete all updates, and change all my settings and tweaks to match my desktop.

Two weeks later I was still finding settings I hadn't changed to my liking.

I plan to buy a new laptop in a couple months. I plan to buy TrueImage 2011 in the hope that I can paste an image of my current setup to the new machine with the "clone to dissimilar hardware" or whatever it's called. Do I have a prayer of it working?

 

[Nothinman]

I would say more with xp than earlier. I never had any issues swapping out motherboards until xp. After I found out about setting the ide controller to the generic Microsoft drivers it was easier. Win 95 and 98 were very good at booting up and running after a swap, they just did not care. I haven't tried it with Win7 yet, so I do not know how it will go. I would probably do the hadr drive controller thing just to be safe.

Jim

I never really considered Win9x, they have their own sets of issues that make them generally shitty. I was thinking about NT 4 and Win2K when I wrote that since they're the direct predecessors of XP.

I recently upgraded memory on a Vista Laptop, and switched it to W7.

It took me 5 days (more than 60 hours) to load all my programs, complete all updates, and change all my settings and tweaks to match my desktop.

Two weeks later I was still finding settings I hadn't changed to my liking.

I plan to buy a new laptop in a couple months. I plan to buy TrueImage 2011 in the hope that I can paste an image of my current setup to the new machine with the "clone to dissimilar hardware" or whatever it's called. Do I have a prayer of it working?

Exactly, people always seem to magically forget about how much of a PITA starting from scratch really is. You end up taking a lot for granted once you have a working setup and no one out there has an exhaustive list of settings that they've tweaked over the years of using an OS. It's usually many, many orders of magnitude simpler to just move the existing install to the new PC so you don't have to worry about it. I have a Linux install at home that I've moved across at least 3 PCs over the years, the only reinstall happened because I wanted to go from i386 to AMD64. And Linux even makes reinstalls simpler because I can just save /home and /etc and transfer all of my settings with virtually no issue.

 

[zerogear]

1 + hours?

I recently upgraded memory on a Vista Laptop, and switched it to W7.

It took me 5 days (more than 60 hours) to load all my programs, complete all updates, and change all my settings and tweaks to match my desktop.

Two weeks later I was still finding settings I hadn't changed to my liking.

I plan to buy a new laptop in a couple months. I plan to buy TrueImage 2011 in the hope that I can paste an image of my current setup to the new machine with the "clone to dissimilar hardware" or whatever it's called. Do I have a prayer of it working?

Acronis Universal Restore works pretty well, but it's only included with the Small business versions. Acronis Backup & Restore 11

 

[jobz]

Nothinan is right, reinstalling windows & programs is the easy part, configuring to what you had before will take many hours or even days, and that's for things you remember.

@FishAk, I managed to migrate AMD Athlon XP 2500+ / MSI MS-6570 to i5-2400 / Asrock H67M-GE with TI 2011 & Plus Pack. I was surprised it actually worked. Although, not long after, I installed win7 on the new machine. Old xp image is now running in a virtual machine.