Help troubleshooting boot issues after installing new motherboard and CPU

[Ruby Quinn-Stewart]

Hi, today I've installed a new mobo, CPU and CPU cooler to my PC, and after connecting everything up and attempting to boot the PC, I haven't been able to successfully boot past BIOS. The mobo speaker beeps once during startup (and on one occasion beeped 1 long 3 short) and is an AMI BIOS, so my limited understanding is that it's telling me there's a memory error of some kind. After passing POST the computer blue-screens, displaying "Inaccessible Boot Device" error, which I understand as an issue with the storage drive Windows is installed to. It then restarts the PC straight to the repairs sc

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