First off, I am new here and it's been 9 years since my last build and hopefully I can get stop beating my head against the wall and get this issue resolved.
I have Rev1.0 Aorus Z390 Pro motherboard currently with the R8 Bios version. I have a retail USB of Windows 10 home. For whatever reason the motherboard will not load the windows installer from USB. Changing the boot configuration to UEFI-Windows10-Partition 1 which is how the USB appears to BIOS sends me to a Windows boot manager asking me to select either Win10 32 or Win10 64. I select the 64 bit option where I am then transported to the Windows logo screen (blue logo) I see a few spinning dots that freeze in the same location with each thing I have tried. Which is:
Unplugging everything numerous times to check connection issues
Reducing ram sticks to 1/different slots
Reducing Sata devices to 1/different ports
Removing the GPU and enabling onboard graphics
All SSD/HDD are blank
Tried making my own bootable USB's first using Rufus then with Microsoft Media Creation Tool both with .iso files downloaded either through the tool or from Microsoft
Tried all front panel and rear USB ports
Tried CSM off and on
Tried making a legacy USB too but get message that this format is not compatible with this board
Tried both the Retail USB and my Homemade jobbies in my old Z77 board and shazam works perfectly so they are not the problem
Short of flashing my Bios to version 10, I am fresh out of ideas and extremely frustrated and discouraged swaying away from my trusted ASUS to go for this Gigabyte Mobo.
Other pertinent info:
I7-9700K
EVGA G3 750 PSU
Gigabyte Windforce RTX 2070
G.Skill Trident Z 3200 8gb x2
WD Blue SSD 250
Samsung SSD 500
WD Blue HDD 500
Samsung Nvme M2 500
Corsair H150i pro
Thermaltake View 71
I have Rev1.0 Aorus Z390 Pro motherboard currently with the R8 Bios version. I have a retail USB of Windows 10 home. For whatever reason the motherboard will not load the windows installer from USB. Changing the boot configuration to UEFI-Windows10-Partition 1 which is how the USB appears to BIOS sends me to a Windows boot manager asking me to select either Win10 32 or Win10 64. I select the 64 bit option where I am then transported to the Windows logo screen (blue logo) I see a few spinning dots that freeze in the same location with each thing I have tried. Which is:
Unplugging everything numerous times to check connection issues
Reducing ram sticks to 1/different slots
Reducing Sata devices to 1/different ports
Removing the GPU and enabling onboard graphics
All SSD/HDD are blank
Tried making my own bootable USB's first using Rufus then with Microsoft Media Creation Tool both with .iso files downloaded either through the tool or from Microsoft
Tried all front panel and rear USB ports
Tried CSM off and on
Tried making a legacy USB too but get message that this format is not compatible with this board
Tried both the Retail USB and my Homemade jobbies in my old Z77 board and shazam works perfectly so they are not the problem
Short of flashing my Bios to version 10, I am fresh out of ideas and extremely frustrated and discouraged swaying away from my trusted ASUS to go for this Gigabyte Mobo.
Other pertinent info:
I7-9700K
EVGA G3 750 PSU
Gigabyte Windforce RTX 2070
G.Skill Trident Z 3200 8gb x2
WD Blue SSD 250
Samsung SSD 500
WD Blue HDD 500
Samsung Nvme M2 500
Corsair H150i pro
Thermaltake View 71