Build Advice Pc won't go into Windows installer

[Kass555]

This is my friend's computer. He somehow fried his motherboard yesterday so we got a used one from one of my other friends. It didn't boot to Windows only bios so I thought I would format his ssd on my pc and try to reinstall Windows but it just starts loading and restarts then going into Windows recovery with error code 0xc000000f. From the media creation tool I've tried both ways and then with rufus tried both MBR and GPT, legacy on/off, UEFI on/off, CSM on/off and nothing works.

BIOS is on F22b.
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA AB350 Gaming 3 rev 1.0
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600
GPU: BIOSTAR RX580
RAM:G-Skill 1x4GB 2400 (I've also tried with a G-Skill 3200 kit and a Corsair Vengeance 3600 kit)
For SSD I’ve tried both a Patriot 128gb and an MX500 250gb both formatted.

Also, for some reason the usb stopped showing up in the boot order after a few tries so I had to go straight from boot override.

 

[stonecarver]

Can you take if you have another USB thumb and load it up with a Linux OS, POP or Ubuntu is fine and see if PC will boot into a working Linux OS. You don't have to install the Linux it will run off of the USB stick.

Just getting the hardware verified to see if it's hardware or something else.

 

[Kass555]

Can you take if you have another USB thumb and load it up with a Linux OS, POP or Ubuntu is fine and see if PC will boot into a working Linux OS. You don't have to install the Linux it will run off of the USB stick.

Just getting the hardware verified to see if it's hardware or something else.

I did think about it I just didn’t do it as I don’t know anything about Linux. I will at least try to boot into Linux and do some research on it. Later I can just install Windows from Linux for him right?

 

[Kass555]

I did think about it I just didn’t do it as I don’t know anything about Linux. I will at least try to boot into Linux and do some research on it. Later I can just install Windows from Linux for him right?

Also, in case the USB stick is at fault, is there a way to save Linux on an ssd from my pc and then do the setup/installation process on my friends’?

 

[stonecarver]

Also, in case the USB stick is at fault, is there a way to save Linux on an ssd from my pc and then do the setup/installation process on my friends’?

Your not going to be actually installing the Linux on his OR your hard drive/ SSD. Linux will run directly off of the USB thumb drive. Linux will just do what feels like a long forever boot loading to a working desktop environment. You can even run Linux without a SSD even plugged into the motherboard.

If your not sure how Linux works there are read me pages where you would download the ISO of your flavor of Linux.

So the point is your NOT going to install the Linux at all.

As your booting it's usually F9 - F10 - F11 or F12 that you mash to get to the boot screen to choose what the PC will boot from. Choose the USB stick with the Linux.