Question System is not loading Windows 11 via USB drive ?

[Cisco LLDR]

Hello All.

My son and I finish building his first gaming PC, but the system fails to boot Windows after powering up and updating the Bios to the FC version. Upon power-up, the system returns to the BIOS screen every time without any error messages. I have confirmed that all drives are being recognized. Three M.2, 1 TB drives, two 16 GB sticks of DDR 5 Ram at 7200 MB Speed, and a Gigabyte 4090 and Windows flash drive. I have also confirmed that the boot sequence is correct. I have made several attempts to troubleshoot, but I am out of ideas. Below are the troubleshooting steps taken; I'm starting to wonder if maybe I have a defective motherboard. PLEASE HELP; what am I doing wrong?


1. Removed all but 1 M.2
2. Removed GPU
3. Removed one 16 GB stick of Ram.
4. Cleared the CMOS twice.
5. Enabled CMS support for legacy drivers.
6 Purchased a new Flash drive, formatted to Fat32, and attempted to reboot.
7. Removed all connected devices.

System Specs:
Aorus Z790 Elite AX (rev 1.1)
i7-13700k
T-Force 32 GB ram at 7200
Gigabyte 4090
1TB WD SN850X M.2
2 1TB WD SN 770 M.2
iCue H150i Elite LCD XT

 

[rgd1101]

so you where able to install windows but can't boot to it after?

 

[Dilettante_since_1985]

(Not exactly the same problem but while googling for advice, I got directed to this thread)

MY ADVICE: Do NOT use the (outdated) Win11 USB-installer from retail box. Download a fresh installer package from Microsoft website and make your own "USB-installer" to a spare USB-stick!

So,
Brand new, self assembled PC, all fresh components, without previously installed OS/windows in any harddrives.

(((Long story short - Windows11 retail installation USB-stick propably had older version or missing drivers for new hardware, and the installation would not proceed, because of "Your PC does not meet the minimum requirements for installing windows 11". I used six hours of trying different BIOS and tweak options, flashed the BIOS up to date, after trying to download windows11 installer fresh from the microsoft site and making my own USB-installer drive. After using my own downloaded, fresh made Windows11 USB install package, things went smoothly.)))

Sorry this was a week ago, i cant remember everything clearly...

First I had to tweak bios for the motherboard to find any drives at all, default BIOS setup didnt find any of my SDD or DVD hardware. I think in BIOS I went to Boot-submenu and turned CSM support "on" (on later problems trying with both UEFI and legacy options) for the SDDs to be available.

Also, I think had to turn off secure boot option also to be able to find any bootable possible drives and the windows11 intallation USB-stick. Later I turned the CSM support disabled.

Right.

So after I got to the point that the PC would boot from the retail-package windows11 USB-stick, began the installation asking language and region, ask for windows11 serial code.... then I couldnt get past the installer complaining "Your PC is does not meet minimum requirements for intalling windows 11" or such etc. Of cource no info what would be the problem. And I couldnt use the "diagnostic program for win11 compability " because the PC had not been working with installed OS before.

After reading that many times this "not meet requirements" -error is because Trusted computing/TPM is not enabled from bios.... I enabled that. Still no success "meeting requirements".

I flashed the BIOS to latest version, with no effect. I then tried every sub-option with Trusted computing /TPMcombined with all kinds different kind of UEFI/legacy hardware support options. With no success.



Then as a last resort, even though Microsoft declares the windows version is the same in the downloadable version as in the "retail USB-stick"-version, I downloaded the installer fresh from the MS website and made my own "installer USB stick" to a spare USB-drive I had laying around.

After this, the display resolution changed, color scheme seemed different...... aaand.... Installer would proceed nice and tidy.

So, I think the retail-box windows stick had old or missing hardware drivers which caused this awfull "does not meet requirements with windows11 " mess. Six hours of

Gigabyte Aorus Z790 elite ax rev1.1
Intel core i7-13700 KF
MSI Geforce 4070 rtx
32gb ram Kingston DDR5
couple of samsung M2 980pro SSD 1tb

 

[Misgar]

Hmm. Makes me glad I'm sticking with Windows 10 on all my machines for the time being (apart from a few Windows 11 Virtual Machines in Hyper-V).

If you need CSM/Legacy enabled to boot from a FAT32 USB memory stick, but UEFI-only for Windows 11, that makes life very difficult during installation.

Have you considered using Rufus to create a bootable Windows 11 USB drive with both Secure Boot and TPM disabled? All you need is the Windows 11 ISO downloaded from the Microsoft web site, plus a copy of Rufus.

Assuming Rufus allows you to install Windows 11 with TPM and Secure Boot switched off in the BIOS, you could turn these options back on after installing the OS. Good luck.

https://rufus.ie/en/

https://nerdschalk.com/how-to-use-r...secure-boot-in-bootable-windows-11-usb-drive/

The other thing that might help is to leave XMP (DDR5-7200) overclocking switched off during installation. Stick to the default JEDEC RAM speed around 4000 to 4800MT/s at first.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Closing thread as OP hasn't responded for almost two months (yet still some members are still replying to this necro-thread - - - sigh )