Hello,
I just finished building my 1st PC yesterday and I can't figure out why Windows won't install and the PC keeps rebooting. Here is a list of the parts I used:
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor
Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard
G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory
Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB WINDFORCE 2X Video Card
NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case
Cooler Master MasterWatt 750 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply
Assembly of all those parts went smoothly.
Then I plugged the power supply, keyboard and monitor. The PC booted in the BIOS as expected:
RAM properly detected, running at 2133MHz by default
CPU properly detected
SSD properly detected
I created a BOOT Windows USB drive with my laptop and then tried to install Windows. This is where the problems started. The BOOT sequence LED on the Motherboard shows the right sequence and then goes to green (which should mean everything is fine). Then, the monitor shows the "TUF Gaming" Logo for about 30 seconds and then the PC reboots. If I don't touch anything, it will reboot like this forever. Following this here are the steps I did to debug the problem:
Tried a different USB drive with a BOOTABLE Windows
Tried downloading a ISO of Windows and install it with Rufus on different USB drives
I did all the possible configurations in Rufus
Changed the BOOT config in BIOS
UEFI/Legacy OPROM
Tried all the different USB ports on the PC
Tried using a USB drive with BOOTABLE UBUNTU
Tried updating the Motherboard firmware (was on 1404, now on 1405)
All those steps lead me to the same result, the PC seem to lock up and reboots.
My next debugging phase was more a hardware approach:
Unplugged all unnecessary fans and RGB
Removed PSU extension cables
Those steps ended up doing the same thing
Then, I tried removing one of the RAM sticks
With this change, when booting, I can see the Windows Logo show up for about 30 seconds. But then the PC reboots again.
I tried the UBUNTU USB drive with the same config and the PC ends up rebooting as well after showing what looks like a UBUNTU install startup page.
So, I am kind of at a lost now. I don't know what else I could try to make this work. I don't have a seperate SSD or PSU to try. I don't have another CPU or motherboard either. Anyone has any idea of what could be the issue here?
Thanks for the help.