NEW MOBO, CPU, RAM. Can’t perform clean install?

[phildoubleday]

Just got an MSI B350, Ryzen 5 1600, and some G skill DDR 4.

I figured I have to do a clean install of WIN7 after putting the new components in.

Windows blue screens before the logo finishes its animation.

I thought it was the drivers on the HDD that didn’t work with the new components.

Unplugged the HDD, and tried to boot from a bootable USB with WIN7.

It blue screens in the same place.

I’m at a loss. Does anyone know what might be going on here?

 

[coozie7]

There is no official support for Win 7 with Ryzen ( or some later Intel CPUs either ), certain people want you to update to Win 10...
This may help, though: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11182/how-to-get-ryzen-working-on-windows-7-x64

 

[phildoubleday]

I don’t appear to be having any trouble with the USB ports. The mouse and keyboard are working fine in the bios, and the system attempts to boot win 7 from the USB. The boot just stops and blue screens before the windows graphic finishes. This is both with the HDD connected and without it connected.

 

[racksmith101]

There won't be drivers on your Windows installation media for your hardware. See above post from coozie.