What happened:
My high school senior cousin was building a PC with some used and new parts
Board: ASUS B250M-A
CPU: i7-6700
RAM: 1X 16GB SK hynix HMA82GR7JJR8N-VK (this is a brand new ECC REG ram he bought by mistake. The board won't take it)
SSD: SAMSUNG 970 PRO 512 brand new (Christmas present from me)
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1660 Super single fan
PSU: Corsair 500W
The first boot up didn't do anything, obviously, but even without any beep. Only the CPU fan was running, no screen, no beep.
He tried to kill (by holding the on/off switch long seconds) and turn back up at least 4 times.
Then he called me and we figured out the memory was not right. The Samsung SSD has been on the board all time.
We ordered brand new Cricual 16GB non ECC unbuffered.
When received it, seemed to work fine until the first boot for Windows 10 installation. We got "Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows, restart the installation." error.
I tried DiskPart to clean the SSD and start over, but the diskpart couldn't see the SSD (strangely there was no Disk 0, Only Disk 1 which was the USB stick for Windows 10 installation.)
Went ahead anyway with installation and tried to delete partitions and create a new one but the existing partitions couldn't be deleted by the Windows 10 installation disk manager.
The SSD is under warranty so we will get a replacement but I am really curious whether this is something normally expected for powering up a board with a wrong memory stick. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
My high school senior cousin was building a PC with some used and new parts
Board: ASUS B250M-A
CPU: i7-6700
RAM: 1X 16GB SK hynix HMA82GR7JJR8N-VK (this is a brand new ECC REG ram he bought by mistake. The board won't take it)
SSD: SAMSUNG 970 PRO 512 brand new (Christmas present from me)
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1660 Super single fan
PSU: Corsair 500W
The first boot up didn't do anything, obviously, but even without any beep. Only the CPU fan was running, no screen, no beep.
He tried to kill (by holding the on/off switch long seconds) and turn back up at least 4 times.
Then he called me and we figured out the memory was not right. The Samsung SSD has been on the board all time.
We ordered brand new Cricual 16GB non ECC unbuffered.
When received it, seemed to work fine until the first boot for Windows 10 installation. We got "Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows, restart the installation." error.
I tried DiskPart to clean the SSD and start over, but the diskpart couldn't see the SSD (strangely there was no Disk 0, Only Disk 1 which was the USB stick for Windows 10 installation.)
Went ahead anyway with installation and tried to delete partitions and create a new one but the existing partitions couldn't be deleted by the Windows 10 installation disk manager.
The SSD is under warranty so we will get a replacement but I am really curious whether this is something normally expected for powering up a board with a wrong memory stick. Any thoughts?
Thanks,