Hey guys,
So I recently did a major overhaul on my system, I changed the motherboard, mem, and cpu. I also added a bigger hard drive with the intention of cloning my current one to gain more space and have better read and write performance. So I get everything in and I test boot it with out the HDD conected to see if I have any bad parts. Everything is fine, boots up great. I connect my HDD and a few seconds after the "starting windows" splash screen comes up it freezes for less than a second a blue screan with some text pops up and almost as soon as it appers it goes away. So I have no idea what text is on the page and the whole system reboots. Windows tells me that it failed to start and that a recent hardware or software change may be the cause. So I ran the system recovery but it comes up with nothing. I can't even boot into safe mode because as soon as it finishes loading Windows\system32\drivers\aswRvrt.sys it freezes and crashes like it did before. Now I am not the best when it comes to software but I think that the problem is with some incompatable drivers with the new motherboard, but again I could be way off mark.
Any help would be greatly apprechiated, thanks again.
I am not able to get into safe mode with command prompt. It crashes the same as always as soon as it loads that file.
You won't be able to uninstall avast via commandline (neither WMI or invoking msexec with GUID works).
If you never had a successful boot may just want to try reseating cables. Go into the BIOS to check the boot order, and SATA device priority and make sure your Win7 drive is set to load before the new drive.
Tap F8 on startup to select safe mode with cmd prompt (or better yet boot a Linux live CD - if UEFI you may need to disable 'secure boot' in BIOS.) and see if there are any stability issues with the drive attached
When in safe mode make sure to go into msconfig and 1) hide microsoft services, and uncheck all non-ms services, and 2) uncheck all startup items. (unplug network cable because this means you have no AV)
Reboot into normal mode and if that works, start adding back services/startup items (AV first - adding back network cable) and run repair on avast.
If it's still being a bitch disable automatic restart on crash dump so you can read the blue screen, and configure logging options: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/automatic-restart-windows-7.htm
Good luck.
Ok I have done all the steps up to booting into safe mode. it still will not boot into it. I do have a live usb of mint 14. Could I use this to uninstall my AV? If so how would I go about doing so. Again I'm not very good with hardware
Windows dosent like hardwhere changes a mobo and cpu is basically a new computer you need to reinstall windows just connecting your old hardrive with windows on it whont work.
Thanks for all your help, If I do a clean install of windows will I lose all of my saved files? There are some things that I really don't want to redo. but If I must then I must.
Grab what you want via running the linux live disc. Transfer 'x' files to usb. Change boot order to dvd, ssd, hdd. Reinstall windows.
As cooperman says Windows has a fit if you try to launch will all new hardware. You can sometimes get away with it if the boards are the same chipset. Yeah its just always best to start with a clean slate.
Make sure AHCI is enabled in the bios as well since you have gone to a ssd.
It sounds like a similar problem to one I had.
Try changing the ports you have your hdd plugged into on the mobo. With my board 2 I couldn't boot from two of the ports even though bios was picking up the drives and letting me set them as boot drives.