[SOLVED] Z590 Pro Windows Install

[Damagedlx]

I recently upgraded my pc and I've built a few pcs before, this time I have a z590 pro motherboard and for whatever reason I can't seem to get past bios to install windows, I've looked and Google and read through some forums and skimmed through the user manual all to no avail. I've never had an issue installing windows on other pcs but this is my first time working with a gigabyte motheboard.

 

[Colif]

on a new motherboard you shouldn't have to do anything, just put USB in and start PC.

have you tried boot override?
put USB into drive
go into bios and on the save & exit screen, choose boot override
pick USB from list and PC should restart and boot from USB

Are you sure USB has windows on it?

 

[avg9956]

I can't seem to get past bios

Full system specs? CPU model?

 

[Damagedlx]

Full system specs? CPU model?

Cpu is an i7-10700kf
Gpu is an aorus 3070
It has 2 m2 ssd and a regular hdd

 

[Damagedlx]

on a new motherboard you shouldn't have to do anything, just put USB in and start PC.

have you tried boot override?
put USB into drive
go into bios and on the save & exit screen, choose boot override
pick USB from list and PC should restart and boot from USB

Are you sure USB has windows on it?

I just tried boot override and it loops back to the save and exit screen, the USB was an installation media straight from Microsoft so it should have windows on it

 

[Colif]

It can help to only have the drive you want to install windows attached when you install, but thats more to ensure windows goes to right place, not to get installer to actually work.

We should check that USB actually works. I have seen them not work before.

On another PC, download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB

it sounds like its not working off USB right now.

which USB slots are you using on board?

 

[Damagedlx]

It can help to only have the drive you want to install windows attached when you install, but thats more to ensure windows goes to right place, not to get installer to actually work.

We should check that USB actually works. I have seen them not work before.

On another PC, download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB

it sounds like its not working off USB right now.

which USB slots are you using on board?

I'll try that now I've never had an issue with windows installation media so I never thought to check it

 

[Damagedlx]

It can help to only have the drive you want to install windows attached when you install, but thats more to ensure windows goes to right place, not to get installer to actually work.

We should check that USB actually works. I have seen them not work before.

On another PC, download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB

it sounds like its not working off USB right now.

which USB slots are you using on board?

That seems to have been the issue when I plugged the original installation media it said the drive was corrupted unfortunately I don't have a spare USB to make a new one so I'll have to wait until tomorrow to see if that was the issue

 

[Colif]

I guess when you make millions of copies of the installer, some of them won't work. You get bad examples of everything.

I bought 3 USB drives last year just to have spares, and because all of mine were USB 2 up until then. Ironically they are all over 32gb in size and I wouldn't use them to install windows off as it would be a waste of space.

 

[boju]

When ever removing usb drive from usb port (in Windows, bios doesn't matter?), make sure you eject it first, every time. Sometimes you get lucky if not but I've had usb drives corrupt on me.

 

[Colif]

don't think i seen an eject option for usb in bios before?
I know it exists in windows.
You probably shouldn't even remove it if PC supposedly off as win 10 uses fast startup by default and isn't ever really off. You probably safe though as not many people have 4gb of ram only these days and pc shouldn't be using USB drives anymore to speed up boot.

I expect its just a bad USB

 

[boju]

Am guessing, how Windows negotiates usb that it should be ejected first before removal. It shouldn't matter prior Windows but not sure. Never had usb corrupt removing it in bios environment. In all my years, ejecting was not a habit until that one time, so chances of corruption is low i think and most likely is a bad drive.