My father has a PC which had some trouble with the MoBo, the Lan port was nos stable and sometimes the computer would not turn on. Motheboard: M5A88-V EVO CPU: AMD FX 8150 RAM: 4x8gb Corsair Vengeance 2133Mhz (running at 1600mhz) GPU: AMD HD 6970 DCUII HD: 500Gb Western Digital Power Supply: OCZ 750W
I used my SSD (Samsung 840 Pro 250gb) to diagnose it, and then changed the MoBo for a Crosshair V Formula I already had and tested everything again still using my SSD and everything was working fine. When I put my fathers HD back, it would load the windows boot animation, and in the middle of it, it flashes a blue screen and turn off. I tried the windows repair and nothing, then I tried the system restore and still nothing. So I tried booting up in safe mode, and it was loading fine until it reached AtiPciE.sys then it hanged and reset.
I know many people will tell me just to reinstall windows, but there are some programs that I can't even find a installer nowadays, and it is a work pc, so reinstalling would be the last resort. ps.: Using my SSD I can access the HD just fine, so it looks like is not a hardware problem with the HD
The file AtiPciE.sys is a driver probably associated with the video card. You could try swapping it out temporarily and see if it will get to a point where you can reinstall the driver. Not sure this will really make a difference though. The old motherboard looks like it had onboard video, so we can only hope it is not associated with that. Does AtiPciE.sys also give you the bluescreen or just hang during safemode boot?
The reason people always tell you to reinstall windows when you change the motherboard is usually because the chipsets are different and require different drivers. If there is too much difference in chipsets then windows can't boot and if you can't boot it's basically impossible to load new drivers. If anyone knows a good way to change windows drivers while the system is offline I would like to know.