I recently built a new PC with the following components: Colorful Battle-AX B550M-D PRO motherboard, a Ryzen 5 3600x processor, and 16GB (2x8GB) of Kingston Fury Beast RAM at 3200MT/s. I also have a GeForce 1060 6GB graphics card.While Ubuntu 24.04 works perfectly on this setup, I am struggling to get Windows 11 to boot. I downloaded it directly from Microsoft and initially tried using Ventoy to create the installation media.
During the installation, after the first reboot, the system freezes at the spinning wheel, and the drive's activity LED stops blinking. If I wait, I eventually get a DCP_Watchdog_Violation error. I've already tried several things:
- Using Rufus instead of Ventoy for the installation media
- Toggling secure boot on and off
- Installing Windows 11 on an older SATA drive, disconnecting all other drives
- Changing the PCIe Slot Configuration from Auto to Gen 3
- Disabling Turbo Mode
I'm out of ideas and would appreciate any guidance on what else I can try. Thanks!
2 Answers
Before you keep trying reboots, make sure that Ubuntu isn't auto-mounting any Windows partitions. Shut down your PC completely and then try to reboot into Windows. It could be the case that something in Ubuntu is interfering with the boot process.
It sounds like you might be hitting a compatibility snag with your motherboard, particularly regarding TPM requirements which Windows 11 has. Your motherboard documentation should indicate whether it supports TPM or fTPM. If it doesn’t, you might need to bypass that requirement in your BIOS settings. Check if there's an option to enable it there.
I had the same issue! After enabling TPM in the BIOS, Windows finally booted up smoothly.