Trying to do a fresh install of windows 8.1 64 bit to my SSD from my USB. I'm doing this because my windows was freezing a lot. My temperatures on everything were fine. replaced my memory a couple of months ago because I believed that it was faulty. I get this message after the installation restarts: "Windows experienced an unexpected error. To install windows, restart the installation". I then tried moving to windows 10 which didn't make any difference, although I've decided that I would prefer too install windows 10 now. It appears after the installation needs to continue to the boot drive rather than the SSD. what I see is the bios screen, with a small spinning windows loading icon, and then after a few seconds, the error
Things I've tried to fix it:
Installing the other drivers I have: windows was unstable and I kept getting blue screens, freezing up, unable to launch Far Cry 5, which was the same as before. The blue screens I got were SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION and CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED, which I had never seen previously.
Running a chkdsk on all my drives and the USB: no errors
trying just one of each ram stick rather than both: nothing
formatting the SSD to GPT: nothing
using Rufus instead of the Windows 7 media creation tool to create a bootable USB: nothing
switching to AHCI to IDE: slight difference, in AHCI, the window error would take less time to appear, but with IDE, it would take longer, and it would freeze for a few minutes before it appeared
cleaning all of the drives using diskpart: nothing
Specs
GPU: MSI GTX 970
CPU: I7 4790K @ 4.0GHZ, COOLED BY A DARK ROCK PRO 3 BK019
RAM: 2x 8GB PATRIOT VIPER RAM 1600MHZ
STORAGE: (OS) 120GB KINGSTON SSD, WD BLUE 2TB HDD, 256GB CRUCIAL SSD
MOTHERBOARD: MSI Z87-G45
PSU: CORSAIR MX750M
MONITOR: LG 34 INCH 2560x1080 21:9 MONITOR
FANS: 4 CORSAIR CASE FANS
Things I've tried to fix it:
Installing the other drivers I have: windows was unstable and I kept getting blue screens, freezing up, unable to launch Far Cry 5, which was the same as before. The blue screens I got were SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION and CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED, which I had never seen previously.
Running a chkdsk on all my drives and the USB: no errors
trying just one of each ram stick rather than both: nothing
formatting the SSD to GPT: nothing
using Rufus instead of the Windows 7 media creation tool to create a bootable USB: nothing
switching to AHCI to IDE: slight difference, in AHCI, the window error would take less time to appear, but with IDE, it would take longer, and it would freeze for a few minutes before it appeared
cleaning all of the drives using diskpart: nothing
Specs
GPU: MSI GTX 970
CPU: I7 4790K @ 4.0GHZ, COOLED BY A DARK ROCK PRO 3 BK019
RAM: 2x 8GB PATRIOT VIPER RAM 1600MHZ
STORAGE: (OS) 120GB KINGSTON SSD, WD BLUE 2TB HDD, 256GB CRUCIAL SSD
MOTHERBOARD: MSI Z87-G45
PSU: CORSAIR MX750M
MONITOR: LG 34 INCH 2560x1080 21:9 MONITOR
FANS: 4 CORSAIR CASE FANS