Error booting off SSD

[TheGermanEngie]

I have an issue booting off Windows 10 via SSD on an LGA 1155 ASUS motherboard with an i7 3770. I've gone through every setting to make it compatible, legacy settings UEFI settings etc. Then once it installs off a DVD I burned I get a black screen. Upon hard rebooting I get the message saying windows was unable to fully install. 

 

Steps I did in order

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Boot off win 10 installation media

When finishes installing it restarts and I get the BIOS message

When I press enter to continue the display is completely black. The display does not sleep.

I hard reboot the machine and boot off the SSD and the windows message comes up.

 

I know the ISO works as I use it on a VM.

Please help!!

[Rainbow Dash]

Did you have secure boot on in bios? Also did you follow what it told you to go into CSM and check if Legacy and UEFI is enabled?

[TheGermanEngie]

1 minute ago, Rainbow Dash said:

Did you have secure boot on in bios? Also did you follow what it told you to go into CSM and check if Legacy and UEFI is enabled?

Secure boot can't be turned off.. however it does have an option to lock into windows and ignore all other boot media. And yes I changed settings to make it as compatible as possible - UEFI and legacy compatible, etc. 

[airdeano]

was the SSD formatted with MBR partition or GPT partition?

should be MBR since you  are not running an UEFI mobo.

 

try this on your reinstall attempt after the windows install screen:

1. shift+F10 (command prompt)
2. Type Diskpart, press Enter.
3. Type List Disk, press Enter.
4. Type Select Disk # (where # is the number your USB drive shows up as), press Enter.
5. Type Clean, press Enter.
6. Type Create Partition Primary, press Enter.
7. Type Active, press Enter.
8. Type Format Quick FS=FAT32, press Enter.
9. Type Assign, press Enter.
10. Type Exit, press Ent

resume installation.

[TheGermanEngie]

30 minutes ago, airdeano said:

was the SSD formatted with MBR partition or GPT partition?

should be MBR since you  are not running an UEFI mobo.

 

try this on your reinstall attempt after the windows install screen:

1. shift+F10 (command prompt)
2. Type Diskpart, press Enter.
3. Type List Disk, press Enter.
4. Type Select Disk # (where # is the number your USB drive shows up as), press Enter.
5. Type Clean, press Enter.
6. Type Create Partition Primary, press Enter.
7. Type Active, press Enter.
8. Type Format Quick FS=FAT32, press Enter.
9. Type Assign, press Enter.
10. Type Exit, press Ent

resume installation.

it's not BIOS - it's a UEFI motherboard. it has mouse support and animated icons and all that jazz. Also wouldn't I have to use NTFS instead of FAT32?

[John Ellmaker]

The windows installer will make the ntfs partition, you should try remaking your windows 10 installer with a flash drive instead of dvd and try a different hard drive to rule out the ssd

[TheGermanEngie]

3 hours ago, John Ellmaker said:

The windows installer will make the ntfs partition, you should try remaking your windows 10 installer with a flash drive instead of dvd and try a different hard drive to rule out the ssd

I'll try that. When I use Rufus, what are the settings I should have it at?

[John Ellmaker]

11 minutes ago, TheGermanEngie said:

I'll try that. When I use Rufus, what are the settings I should have it at?

Just use the media creation tool from the Microsoft.com website, it will just ask you to insert a 4gb usb drive after you select your edition (or 8gb if you want it to be both 32/64 bit).  The most recent iso including 1803 will be used to create your install drive

[TheGermanEngie]

1 hour ago, John Ellmaker said:

Just use the media creation tool from the Microsoft.com website, it will just ask you to insert a 4gb usb drive after you select your edition (or 8gb if you want it to be both 32/64 bit).  The most recent iso including 1803 will be used to create your install drive

Issue fixed! (I still used the disk) Strangely, my motherboard's storage devices input was set to IDE (why?????) instead of AHCI. Installation can now continue. WTH asus...

[John Ellmaker]

43 minutes ago, TheGermanEngie said:

Issue fixed! (I still used the disk) Strangely, my motherboard's storage devices input was set to IDE (why?????) instead of AHCI. Installation can now continue. WTH asus...

Good job, yeah that’s strange and I suppose a bios reset would have worked for you in that case unless ide is somehow the default for that board