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yeah it's not bad if you can get it for a good price.

Yumi will do the trick most of time. At least when I have issues. Also check your BIOS and make sure legacy is enabled. edit:https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ Use this and at should help make a good bootable drive. I'd also give Ubuntu a try if you keep running into issues.

Probably a failed component on the motherboard. I would visually inspect your electrolytic capacitors(ones that look like a drum) and make sure none of them have bulge or a are leaking anything. As others have said it most likely a cap, but you could also have another component go bad like a resistor. Also check the bottom of your motherboard as you could have corrosion which could cause an intermittent signal. I doubt your motherboard is under warranty, but I would check as you may be able to get a replacement since I know some mobo manufactures still/once offer(ed) long term warranties.

Make sure you put your CMOS battery in right. I had this issue a few years back and it would do this. Also check and see if you have an up to date BIOS? If not the BIOS revision could be unstable and you might want to try and downgrade if possible.

Not with that GPU. You'll need at minimum a 960 according to the site and a 1030 would not cut it. At minimum I would get a 1050ti.

Maybe the new windows installation is corrupted. That or your SSD/HDD is failing causing this issue.

^ this and also check your RAM's timing and if you mobo is overclocking it as well. Had the same issue when I built my last rig and the BIOS was trying to run it with some weird timings and with a 400 MHz overclock.

Sounds like it died. Or a component on it did since you've tried running power from another source. You can always get a cheap chinese pump to tide you over.

Sometimes, I've only had one problem build out of total of 4. It's possible your motherboard has a fault that's causing the USB to not work properly. Did you not test another USB device? If you have another computer handy try using the wfi dongle on that?

It's possible. But I would check the BIOS and all your drivers first, then make sure everything is plugged in properly and not damaged as this would obviously cause failures from your components. If the PSU is modular you could have a bad cable. So I would switch out the PCI power cable from the PSU if possible as well if nothing works.

Maybe, depending on how the GPU failed it could indicate a bad PSU or motherboard.

Make sure you have all relevant drivers(chipset, GPU, etc.) installed onto your PC. Check your BIOS and update it if there is a more recent version. Could be stability issue due to this. If you still have issues after this I would reseat everything in your PC(RAM, CPU, GPU, PSU connections) and make sure none of the pins are bent and if you have a multi meter try running a continuity test on the cables if possible. Other possibilities are your VRAMS on the GPU could be overheating causing the GPU to crash I know some manufactures don't install proper cooling, if this is the case then you will need to install thermal pads onto the VRAM(assuming this is possible). Had to do this w/ my GTX 1070 and my R9 390 before it as I went for cheap options and the low end manufactures tend to scimp on this kind of stuff. If none the above works, you could have a bad CPU(bent pins?), RAM, PSU, or even motherboard. This can be hard to tell until you begin swapping components out.

Ok, make sure you installed your chipset driver from MSI. I know that this can cause weird issues to occur occasionally. Might be the issue. I would also check your BIOS to make sure that you don't have USB 2.0 and/or one of its features disabled.

Hmm.. did you ever try changing the PCI slot? I'd also like you to attempt running Ubuntu off of a live USB so I can elimnate a few different things. Also in the BIOS make sure any setting pertaining to your display output is set to run off of PCI and double check your boot order to make sure your PC isn't trying to boot from the GPU. I had a weird bug last year where my mobo thought my GPU was an NVMe drive, and would basically try to boot from it and ended up having to flash an updated BIOS on the GPU to make it stop.

The link I posted will help. edit: Use device manager to basically verify your USB drivers. You'll want to right click the USB root hub(one w/ out 3.0 if it is there) and click update drivers.