Upgrade causes random problems. help!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Have you tried unplugging all of the drives too??

[nibbler]

Yeah i took out 1 module and I'm into bios. There is 1 beep, it shows the splash screen then anotehr beep and it gives me f1 f2 and a badchecksum thing. Obviously windows is broken, no problem but I cant boot from DVD... It wont let me.

[nibbler]

Ok, the dvd drive is broken. Weird. But k. Im on the pc now and it doesn't recognise that the drive is a dvd drive or that there's a disk in - this is with me putting the disk in manually - so I'll order a new one. I guess.

[dirky]

damn. although, if you have another dvd unit (laptop etc) you can install 7 from usb

edit: if you have a big enough usb thingy

[marshalex]

Ok, the dvd drive is broken. Weird. But k. Im on the pc now and it doesn't recognise that the drive is a dvd drive or that there's a disk in - this is with me putting the disk in manually - so I'll order a new one. I guess.

if you've got a spare pc and at least a 4gb flash drive you can create a bootable usb to install windows from while you wait for the new dvd drive. good guide here

[nibbler]

Dvd drive is not stuffed. Just inconsistent it would seem. Mucking about at the moment but If I'm getting an SSD within a couple of weeks I might just wait till then.

[scaryjim]

has the mobo got SB710? I had a couple of issues with mine - it wouldn't recognise the DVD drive if it was open during boot... so perhaps your DVD drive was stuck a bit open so it wasn't registering or something? *shrug* Unusual set of problems... although I'm not entirely surprised that windows didn't boot given such a big change of components (swapping a motherboard and CPU will often end up needing a new install, ime...)

[nibbler]

It did boot but won't any more. totally fine, but I need to reinstall windows which I can't. Sigh.