My motherboard doesn't have onboard wifi and I have been using an Ethernet cable running through the house for a couple years but decided to try a wifi adapter. It was a TP Link 1800. Immediately upon using the setup installer and restarting to finish the installation I started getting blue screens. It started off by saying it was missing some kernel and now I am getting winload.efi is missing or corrupted. This happens every time it tries to restart so I can't update anything or reset windows. Sometimes after manually shutting off and powering on the PC it will actually boot up into windows normally. I have already went back a month using a restore point option, it hasn't helped. I got a blue screen during that but when the PC finally booted into windows normally it said the restore point was successful. I've already unplugged the adapter and uninstalled the program (the restore point was before this too). I found a few articles saying this is a known problem when booting from an SSD and booting into command prompt to change/fix the BCD but that did not help either it said access denied when I entered the second of four command prompts that were listed. At this point it might be easier to just do a clean install of windows 10 but I can't even get the USB to boot properly to do it. I've spent 7 hours now with these blue screens and powering off and on the PC trying startup repairs which fail and recoveries which also fail so I'm sort of at a loss. My bios version is really out of date but at this point I don't know if it's even safe to try to update that since windows is so unstable.
I'm on an Asus b450f gaming mb (think it said version 2605 when I checked bios)
Ryzen 5 3600
Gigabyte 6700xt (installed 2/1/23)
Tforce ram 2x8 in slots 2 and 4
Windows 10 on SSD with HDD for storage
I'm on an Asus b450f gaming mb (think it said version 2605 when I checked bios)
Ryzen 5 3600
Gigabyte 6700xt (installed 2/1/23)
Tforce ram 2x8 in slots 2 and 4
Windows 10 on SSD with HDD for storage