I recently assembled a new PC with these components: a Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU, an ASUS TUF B650 E-E Motherboard, Crucial Pro 2x16 DDR5 RAM, a red devil OC Radeon 9070 XT GPU, and a Mushkin Reactor 1TB SSD. The power supply is a gold-rated 850W. After installing the parts, I tried to set up Windows 11 and 10 using separate USB drives with the Microsoft Installation Media, but both installations got stuck in a boot loop. I have checked that the BIOS recognizes all components, including prioritizing the SSD for booting. I've attempted several troubleshooting steps: removing the USB during the restart, confirming SSD detection in BIOS, clearing CMOS, toggling Secure Boot, disabling Fast Boot and CSM, and even reinstalling with one stick of RAM. Windows 10 ended up in the same loop as Windows 11, and the scan repair produced an error log. The EFI partition seems okay. After a day and a half of trying different things, I'm wondering if my motherboard is faulty or if there might be another solution to get it to boot successfully.
2 Answers
Have you tried wiping the drive in the BIOS? There’s often a secure erase feature you can use to start fresh.
You might want to install without connecting to the internet. Also, trying a different SSD could help, and make sure to test with just one stick of RAM again.
I haven't connected the internet yet, and I already tried one stick of RAM but got the same issue. I’ll consider getting a different SSD to test.
I did clear all the partitions during the install process, so it should be clean except for my latest attempt. I’ll look for the wipe option in the BIOS next.