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Having Trouble Installing Windows

GTechGeorge
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Alright, so yesterday I got the parts to my new PC. I put it together and it boots up fine and I'm able to enter the UEFI BIOS of the motherboard. When installing Windows, the guy at the store said that I can transfer the data from the Windows 10 CD to a flash drive, boot it up with that, and be fine. So I did just that, made sure to select bootup for the UEFI on the flash drive, but when it restarted, the computer blue screened and displayed an error saying "WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR" This is my first time building a PC and I don't have a CD drive to install it directly onto the PC. I've never had trouble getting a reply from this forum so I would greatly appreciate if I could get a reply ASAP. Thanks.

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okay, make sure the USB is bootable first! 

 

make sure you change the boot order to the USB, and make sure you plug the USB into a 2.0 port, they tend to work better than 3.0 ports. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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I've only ever seen that error message from a bad overclock.

Is everything running at Stock speeds?

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Last night I clicked EZ Tuning Wizard, clicked what I was using my PC for and my CPU cooler, and it said that it increased CPU to 28% and DRAM to 22%. However, I just clicked "Load Optimized Defaults" and restarted the computer, but it still says that the CPU clock is at 3570 MHz. Not sure if that's a good thing, cause the CPU is an i5-4690K at 3.5GHz. If there is an overclock, how do I get it off?

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Okay, I've got the drive converted to a bootable drive and I have Windows 10 installed on it. I can boot up the computer with the windows install tool, agree to the terms and conditions, but I can choose between "Upgrade: Install Windows and keep files, settings, and applications" or "Custom: Install Windows only (advanced). Should I click the Custom install because I'm installing windows for the first time? I hit upgrade and it says "The computer started using the Windows installation media. Remove the installation media and restart your computer so that Windows starts normally. Then, insert the installation media and restart the upgrade. [Do not select iCustom (advanced)I to perform an upgrade. iCustom (advanced)I installs a new copy of Windows and deletes your programs and settings.]

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Okay, I've got the drive converted to a bootable drive and I have Windows 10 installed on it. I can boot up the computer with the windows install tool, agree to the terms and conditions, but I can choose between "Upgrade: Install Windows and keep files, settings, and applications" or "Custom: Install Windows only (advanced). Should I click the Custom install because I'm installing windows for the first time? I hit upgrade and it says "The computer started using the Windows installation media. Remove the installation media and restart your computer so that Windows starts normally. Then, insert the installation media and restart the upgrade. [Do not select iCustom (advanced)I to perform an upgrade. iCustom (advanced)I installs a new copy of Windows and deletes your programs and settings.]

Nevermind, I think I got it. I chose the advanced option and it asked me which drive I'd like to install Windows to. I clicked the SSD so let's see what happens.

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