Not sure if that's supposed to be happeningĪre you sure that your UEFI BIOS is up to date? Here is the download page for your board: Pro4/#BIOS I do notice that the Windows installation spends a lot more time preparing installation files than it does actually installing them. It just refuses to go past that point and either stays in an endless crash-boot cycle, or eventually gives me the Windows "recovery" screen, which only allows me to, you guessed it, reboot the system.ĭoes anyone have any idea what might be causing this? I checked for BIOS updates, but it seems that mine already has the latest installed.
I tried unplugging the keyboard and mouse from the PC before it rebooted so that no device whatsoever was attached, other than my monitor. I tried proceeding the installation without necessarily creating a new partition first. I tried creating a new partition, which in turn creates about 4 partitions related to recovery and such. I made sure the SSD is formatted every time I try to reinstall Windows. I tried being connected to the internet, I tried without the internet.
I made sure the USB drive either was, or wasn't connected.
I made sure to reboot the PC through the Windows Boot Manager. I tried both the Msoft MediaCreationTool as well as Rufus 3-8, and made sure the drive was formatted as FAT-32 I made sure to use the USB drives on the back of the motherboard, and not the ones in the front. I tried using either a USB 3.0 or USB 2.0 port. I tried using both a USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 drive Once every blue moon I eventually reach a "the PC wasn't shut off properly" screen with boot options. Or it gets to the light blue screen that says "Just a moment." with the same rotating dots, and then gets stuck again and reboots the PC. But I am completely stuck with the installation.Įither the PC freezes and reboots while still on the black screen with the ASrock logo and Windows loading beads/dots going in a circle.
I'm trying to install Windows 10 using a USB drive. I just built a PC with an ASrock B450 pro4 motherboard and a Kingston A2000 500GB M.2 SSD.