Windows 10: I swapped my motherboard along with CPU and RAM and I'm having troubles getting windows to work

Hi. Today I swapped my motherboard, CPU and RAM in my rig since it was getting really old and slow. (Really just wanted to swap CPU, but realized I more or less had to swap all other components as well). All the hardware is working properly and it displays in my bios. So I went ahead and launched windows, I read online that you necessarily don't have to reinstall Windows other than reactivating the license when changing hardware. All was working fine at first and I was a bit surprised since I never had to reactivate windows at all, even though it did notice my new hardware.

Then came the crashes, like a lot of them. Not when doing anything specific, just at random times. So I tried updating what I could and repairing. But the bsods didn't stop. So at last I thought that I would just reinstall Windows 10 all together. Maybe it was som sort of old drivers and what not still looking for my old hardware.

So I boot the installation program with a USB from my bios, and decided to format the whole drive where I were to install Windows just in case. It does it's thing and everything installs and I'm like "finally everything works".

But then all off a sudden I start getting bluescreens again. I'm running a fresh install and I have no clue what could be the cause for these things to start happening. I googled the error messages and many of them stated that the cause can be because of bad drivers. But then it has to be from one of my other hard drives since I formatted the drive that windows is installed on, maybe.

Does anyone know what could possibly be wrong? I thought a clean windows install would fix it. Or am I looking at the wrong place, meaning that some of the hardware is not functioning properly? Any help is appreciated

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