BSOD registry error

[cardsfanbj]

Randomly looked up at my PC and noticed that it rebooted for some reason (haven't touched it in 30 minutes to an hour) and the message on the screen wanted me to select a boot drive. Went into UEFI and it only showed my storage disk and UEFI boot. NVME drive not showing up. Rebooted again and it shows up, but trying to boot with it immediately results in BSOD and stop code "registry error" before rebooting again and going directly into UEFI

 

Leaving for work, will leave system powered off while I'm gone.

 

How can I tell if the drive is the problem or if it's software/update related or if it's something else? This is my first PC build, and I haven't run into this error before. I didn't manually seek out a windows update, but it may have auto updated while I wasn't looking.

 

Ryzen 5 1600

ASRock AB350 ATX board

Windows 10 64 bit

Adata XPG NVME 128 GB boot drive

Seagate Barracuda 1 TB bulk storage drive

 

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I'm not doing any over clocking. Everything's run at stock speed since I built it, but I do have XMP enabled for my 16 GB of trident Z 3000 MHz ram (8 GB dual channel)

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Apparently it thinks I have 56 GB of RAM?

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Trying to install Windows again and it's not working right. When I get to the point to select where to install it, it won't let me format the drive. Partitions 1, 2, and 3 all have refresh, delete, format, new load driver, and extend all greyed out. Partition 4, as shown, has delete and format as options but whenever I try to use them, it gives an error message that it won't let me. I'm officially out of ideas short of driving out to Best Buy when it opens and buying a new NVME drive.

[cardsfanbj]

For the sake of completeness (and because this thread hasn't received any replies), I decided to contact Microsoft's support. Essentially boiled down to needing to reinstall Windows. Still unable to format my SSD to install to it, I'm currently trying to create a new ISO flash drive. The original iso on flash drive is 9 months old, and I don't know if they update it or not but I'll give it a shot. I'm like an hour into this and the creation tool is finally at 85%.

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Was going to buy a 240 GB PNY SSD ($35) but, despite having the flier things hanging with the rest of their SSDs (and having other SSDs with notes about not being in stock) they didn't have it. So their next cheapest option in store was a 250 GB WD Blue 2.5" ($55). I bought it, but after double checking Amazon, I found a 500 GB WD Blue M.2 SATA. So that's been ordered for next day shipping (only $4 extra) and I'll return the other to Best Buy. This is why Best Buy sucks. That as well as their selection was so small anyway.

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The saga continues. New M.2 drive arrived today, so I installed windows onto it in order to format the NVME drive and it's kicking back that that drive is protected. Google search turned up instructions on how to clear that through command prompts, but didn't work as expected:

 

Two videos from the same guy for if the problem didn't work one way. 

 

 

Trying it that way resulted in this.

 

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The disk also no longer shows up in file explorer, but it's still detected through the command prompts, in disk management, and by third party disk management software (EaseUS in this case).

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Again, I left the room and when I was gone the computer shut off and I noticed the LED on the power button for my case was flashing (Cooler Master MasterBox 5). I didn't have time to power it back on and check whether the OS has been corrupted again or not. I did contact Cooler Master and they responded that it wasn't anything with the case, but with some other component and it was still getting some kind of signal from the motherboard.