Question Motherboards won't boot to OS or OS Installer ?

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I need help... I have just built a system because my old motherboard died. Upgraded to AM5 while I was at it. Problem is, my new system will neither boot into the OS installer USB, or the original Win10 SSD. It boots into BIOS fine and detects all drives - I updated it to the latest BIOS, and I've turned off secure boot. Nothing. When trying to boot into the SSD or USB installer it just sits at the ASUS logo forever. I even left it running over night.

I tested both drives on a different system and I can boot into the USB win10 installer as well as into the win10 SSD. So I know the drives are good.
The system I have is using an ASUS X670E-PRO WiFi Motherboard, R9 7950X CPU, and 32GB T-Force DDR5 RAM.
It drove me so nuts that I even got another motherboard (ASUS B650E) and it is doing the same thing. I've been trying to repair this machine for 5 months and I'm about to just throw in the towel and call it quits entirely.

If anyone has any clue why this is happening and what I can do to fix it, please let me know. Thanks
 
Yes, I've got a new pack of ten USBs and this is a new USB with Win10 made with Rufus using GPT method. I'm going to try a bunch more installers when I get home tomorrow and see if I can load any type of windows or Linux boot disk.
I did notice that when I put in my TrueNas blog drive, it booted far enough to start initializing but then ran into some error and not looped. Could be the drive itself as it was a test drive from over a year ago. I'll have to do more digging on that. But still - I've never encountered this issue in any of my orbits builds so I'm not sure what the heck is going on
 
Update! It still will not work. But I've noticed that it tries to boot to the install it USBs. It get a split second of a loading wheel for windows 11 or 10 installer at the ASUS logo and then freezes and reboots! Sometimes it will spin for a couple seconds then reboot, sometimes it barely pops on screen then freezes and reboots. This makes no sense to me.
I've already tried it on two motherboards, I've tried two different kinds of supported QVL RAM, and I've got a different processor R7 7000 series processor coming in the mail
I'm losing my mind trying to figure this out
 
Set the bios in verbose mode so that you can see what goes on when it’s trying to boot. You can’t see anything when you have the logo splash up.

most likely, it’s a failed component