My friend's work PC wouldn't work. I figured out his motherboard went bad. Here's the original parts, and the new ones -
His old parts: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3nzU9
The parts now installed: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3nA3n
He's using the same hard drive and video card. The issue, (no surprise), is as soon as windows 7 starts to load it's logo, it blue screens and restarts instantly. Windows tried to do a repair but it didn't work. Is it possible to change drivers? Since I'm unable to even log into the computer it's becoming quite the issue. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated
Did you backup the data and reinstall windows? You can't just swap out the CPU and motherboard and try to restart the computer. The files in the windows subsystems are dependent are certain processing architecture.
I would recommending plugging the HDD into another computer, backing up all the files, and then reinstalling the OS and programs. Then move the files back over.
I unfortunately have learned that the hard way, (but I learned lol). I just talked to my friend, so long as I backup his work files it's okay to re-install the OS. Appreciate the help Feral. I feel silly for not thinking of that option.