New rig needing tech support

[Kingmecha42]

Thankfully this new setup is not my main computer. I have tried multiple ways of installing Windows 10. They all seem to fail after installing. I have no idea what is causing the issue. This is my first time using AMD Ryzen. I have done plenty of builds in the past with both Intel (from 486 up to 8th gen Core i3,i5,i7) and AMD (AM3+, FM2+ and lower) and not run into this problem.

 

I have tried installing with the HDD as MBR and GPT. The both seem to fail. I don't want the SSD to be the main drive.

 

Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated. Parts are new unless stated.

 

Specs:

Asus B450M TUF PLUS

AMD Ryzen 5 1500X (stock speed - not overclocking) (bought used)

Cooler Master 212 Evo

G.SKILL F4-3000C16D-16GTZR Trident Z RGB Series 16GB 3000Mhz (running @ 2400Mhz)

EVGA 1060 6GB SSC (bought used)

EVGA 650W GM power supply

Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe (secondary drive for games)

Toshiba 500GB 2.5" HDD (pulled from a PS4 that I upgraded to 2TB)

[Turtle Rig]

5 minutes ago, Kingmecha42 said:

Thankfully this new setup is not my main computer. I have tried multiple ways of installing Windows 10. They all seem to fail after installing. I have no idea what is causing the issue. This is my first time using AMD Ryzen. I have done plenty of builds in the past with both Intel (from 486 up to 8th gen Core i3,i5,i7) and AMD (AM3+, FM2+ and lower) and not run into this problem.

 

I have tried installing with the HDD as MBR and GPT. The both seem to fail. I don't want the SSD to be the main drive.

 

Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated. Parts are new unless stated.

 

Specs:

Asus B450M TUF PLUS

AMD Ryzen 5 1500X (stock speed - not overclocking) (bought used)

Cooler Master 212 Evo

G.SKILL F4-3000C16D-16GTZR Trident Z RGB Series 16GB 3000Mhz (running @ 2400Mhz)

EVGA 1060 6GB SSC (bought used)

EVGA 650W GM power supply

Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe (secondary drive for games)

Toshiba 500GB 2.5" HDD (pulled from a PS4 that I upgraded to 2TB)

Just set the BIOS to defaults and rune media creation tool from MS and youll have it on USB stick then boot up with it and you should be able to format the drive and install fresh copy and what not.  Im puzzled myself!

[Kingmecha42]

2 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

Just set the BIOS to defaults and rune media creation tool from MS and youll have it on USB stick then boot up with it and you should be able to format the drive and install fresh copy and what not.  Im puzzled myself!

Only changes I made in the BIOS was setting the RAM to 2400Mhz and switching the hard drive boot style. I will give it a try though and see what happens.

[_CrisisRogue]

12 minutes ago, Kingmecha42 said:

Thankfully this new setup is not my main computer. I have tried multiple ways of installing Windows 10. They all seem to fail after installing. I have no idea what is causing the issue. This is my first time using AMD Ryzen. I have done plenty of builds in the past with both Intel (from 486 up to 8th gen Core i3,i5,i7) and AMD (AM3+, FM2+ and lower) and not run into this problem.

 

I have tried installing with the HDD as MBR and GPT. The both seem to fail. I don't want the SSD to be the main drive.

 

Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated. Parts are new unless stated.

 

Specs:

Asus B450M TUF PLUS

AMD Ryzen 5 1500X (stock speed - not overclocking) (bought used)

Cooler Master 212 Evo

G.SKILL F4-3000C16D-16GTZR Trident Z RGB Series 16GB 3000Mhz (running @ 2400Mhz)

EVGA 1060 6GB SSC (bought used)

EVGA 650W GM power supply

Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe (secondary drive for games)

Toshiba 500GB 2.5" HDD (pulled from a PS4 that I upgraded to 2TB)

why do you have an old ps4 drive to boot? just lose 32GBs on the SSD and boot 25 times as fast or whatever

[Kingmecha42]

5 minutes ago, _CrisisRogue said:

why do you have an old ps4 drive to boot? just lose 32GBs on the SSD and boot 25 times as fast or whatever

That may be the next step. Still shy of SSD being the main. Not worried about the speed of loading the OS.

[_CrisisRogue]

But what is the reason behind this?

[Kingmecha42]

1 minute ago, _CrisisRogue said:

But what is the reason behind this?

I have set up other computers with the SSD running Windows. Just didn't for myself. 

[_CrisisRogue]

Just now, Kingmecha42 said:

I have set up other computers with the SSD running Windows. Just didn't for myself. 

But you should, there is no downside, if there is one, no one ever told me

[Kingmecha42]

Using a USB 3 stick. Could that be causing the problem? Maybe use a USB 2 stick?

[Kingmecha42]

Did a BIOS reset to defaults and a fresh install from the Microsoft Media Creation Tool of Windows 10 Home and now I get 

 

File: \windows\system32\drivers\vstxraid.sys

Error Code: 0xc0000221

 

Ready to chuck this thing in the garbage and go back to Intel.

[paulmohr]

I have never heard of anyone not wanting an ssd for their main/boot drive. That is kind of the point of them for most people, is to put your os on it and use a larger drive for actual storage.

 

I also can't see where this has anything to do with it be an AMD cpu or not.

 

Have you tried just using the drive you want to use for the os installed?

 

Are the drives formatted and partitioned correctly?

 

The only thing I can see that might be an issue is that you are trying to use an NVME drive, which I bet is mounted to the mother board as a non boot drive. I am guessing that motherboard really wants to see that as a boot drive since that is the most common configuration for that. I am not sure how you would get around that to be honest because I have never tried to NOT do that. I would assume there has to be an option for it in the boot order menu.
 

I would take the NVME drive out, and connect the hard drive, then try it. Then the motherboard has no choice but to see it as the main drive. I would try clearing the cmos as well before installing windows.

 

If that doesn't work I am guessing it has something to do with the partition on the drive or maybe the drive is bad. I have had trouble in the past with trying to install windows on a drive and it didn't give me the option to choose it in set up. I had to mess around and re do the partition on the drive to get it to work.

 

If you get it to work and it installs windows go back an put the NVME drive back in and make sure the boot order in the bios is correct and see if it works.

[paulmohr]

I did a quick search for that error, you might want to search it if you haven't already and follow some of the things suggested. One thing people suggested is making sure nothing you don't need for the install is connected to the computer.

 

Its also could be a bad thumb drive, bad install copy or possibly the drive is bad or has problems.

[Kingmecha42]

Turns out it was bad ram and was corrupting anything going through it. Had run a scan program off a boot usb and it was thousands of errors. Replaced with new ones and no more issues.