mobo and windows error

[Winter Blue]

I got the lovely SYSWOW64 CLEANER trojan and removed it via Malwarebytes. I am now wiping the ssd and reinstalling windows. I am now getting a BSOD and/or an error of not being able to restart windows for installation. At the boot selection menu I am getting lines of random characters where partitions of my SSD should be.

 

[Paul NZ]

Did you boot from flash drive or dvd to reinstall windows?

 

[androbourne]

It maybe because the virus encrypted the partition or something related. Have you tried to connect the SSD to another PC via USB Adaptor and formatting the hard drive before the new windows install? You may need to simply delete the old partitions and reformat then do the fresh install.

Also are you able to get to the point of the Windows Install where you allow you to select a partition? Because if so, you can delete and recreate partitions from there before installing Windows.

 

[Winter Blue]

Also are you able to get to the point of the Windows Install where you allow you to select a partition? Because if so, you can delete and recreate partitions from there before installing Windows.

I get this:

 

[androbourne]

Ah! Yes. I've ran into that issue like 3 months ago with a clients machine. I ended up having to launch CMD from the Windows Boot CD and perform sector changes on the disk and manually create partitions to get it to work. Try doing that first. Just creating new partitions before the installation and not from the boot cd directly. (easiest way is through CMD). You can also try running the bootrec /fixboot from CMD while are you in there.

I've also seen the disk type in BIOS cause that issue. Check in your BIOS and see if your disk type is set properly. It should be on SATA or AHCI.

It could also be BIOS firmware related. This is more rare but I've seen it happen that the BIOS has some glitch causes this problem.

P.S.
Make sure to also remove all hard drive except the one you are installing Windows on. So if you have a storage disk or usb etc... unplug all disk except for that SSD.

 

[Winter Blue]

Ah! Yes. I've ran into that issue like 3 months ago with a clients machine. I ended up having to launch CMD from the Windows Boot CD and perform sector changes on the disk and manually create partitions to get it to work. Try doing that first. Just creating new partitions before the installation and not from the boot cd directly. (easiest way is through CMD). You can also try running the bootrec /fixboot from CMD while are you in there.

I've also seen the disk type in BIOS cause that issue. Check in your BIOS and see if your disk type is set properly. It should be on SATA or AHCI.

It could also be BIOS firmware related. This is more rare but I've seen it happen that the BIOS has some glitch causes this problem.

Okay, so update time!

I have flashed multiple versions of the bios, all still resulting with the glitching out. I was able to remove the encryption on my SSD via clearing CMOS and directly live running ubuntu and GParted. I then successfully reinstalled windows 10 on it.

I have reconnected my other drives and now can boot into both Windows 10 and Mac OS (Hackintosh)... Just I have no internet connection, even connected via both LAN and WLAN. (All drivers are installed) I confirmed that both connections are active with my MBP.

Edit:
Also the messed up bios are making things.. interesting. I can no longer use the reset button or use the hold to kill on the power button. I cannot let the system sit idle for more than 10 minutes or else it just locks up, needing to have its power pulled. Boot menu now has every option line set as the symbols, shown in the picture.

 

[androbourne]

Double check to make sure issue is not with the physical cable. Try connecting a laptop or another machine to it. Do you get internet?

If so issue might be with the type of driver used or with the NIC port. Try another driver if that doesn't work maybe NIC got fried some how? Try a 3rd party NIC (cards are cheap nowadays).

Remove the duel boot. Take out all hard drives except for the one with Windows 10. Do you still have NIC and other issues? Is this a new SSD you are installing on? Maybe do a diag test on it.

As for the symbols. Are you sure you flashed the BIOS with the correct firmware? Honestly the only time I've seen that is when there was an incorrect firmware flashed onto it, or the mobo was dying...

The symbols along with your NIC... gets me to think a hardware issue with the mobo. Try to remove all hardware that isn't required and only boot with bare minimum to get into bios. Do you still have those symbols?

I'd try another firmware, try clearing CMOS again and setting BIOS back to defaults. If you can't get rid of the symbols, I'd start looking into another mobo...