New build woes

[Warin]

Hello LTT folks. I am at wits end, so I am here to ask for help.

 

I put together this system earlier this week:

i5 8400

Gigabyte H370M DS3

16gb Ballistix sport DDR4 RAM

EVGA NEX 650G PSU

Samsun 650 EVO 500gb SSD

and an older Asus R7 269x graphics card

 

Windows seemed to install fine. I installed the LAN driver fine. However, when I try to install anything else, be it video card drivers, sound drivers, etc etc when it comes time for a restart the system goes into a repair loop and when it finally gets back to windows, I am back at square one. 

 

So far, in troubleshooting, I have tried a different hard drive (brand new 2tb Seagate Barracuda), tried just the motherboard graphics hardware, and tried using a single 8gb stick of memory at a time. It continues to suffer the same problem.

 

can anyone point out what I might be missing? I have built a fair number of systems and installed Windows many times, and this is the first time that I have had a problem like this.

 

Please help!

[STRESSMASTER]

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7 minutes ago, Warin said:

Hello LTT folks. I am at wits end, so I am here to ask for help.

 

I put together this system earlier this week:

i5 8400

Gigabyte H370M DS3

16gb Ballistix sport DDR4 RAM

EVGA NEX 650G PSU

Samsun 650 EVO 500gb SSD

and an older Asus R7 269x graphics card

 

Windows seemed to install fine. I installed the LAN driver fine. However, when I try to install anything else, be it video card drivers, sound drivers, etc etc when it comes time for a restart the system goes into a repair loop and when it finally gets back to windows, I am back at square one. 

 

So far, in troubleshooting, I have tried a different hard drive (brand new 2tb Seagate Barracuda), tried just the motherboard graphics hardware, and tried using a single 8gb stick of memory at a time. It continues to suffer the same problem.

 

can anyone point out what I might be missing? I have built a fair number of systems and installed Windows many times, and this is the first time that I have had a problem like this.

 

Please help!

 

did you verify your bios boot order?

did you clear you bios?

 upgrade your bios?

make sure you don't have a USB sick in a port on booting?

[Warin]

the Bios boot order is set to the SSD first. I cleared the bios, but I haven’t tried updating it yet. And I remove the USB sticks after use to avoid this sort of problem.

 

I will try updating the bios.

 

I also ran the memory check with the 16gb installed and it came back with no errors.

[DocSwag]

1 hour ago, Warin said:

the Bios boot order is set to the SSD first. I cleared the bios, but I haven’t tried updating it yet. And I remove the USB sticks after use to avoid this sort of problem.

 

I will try updating the bios.

 

I also ran the memory check with the 16gb installed and it came back with no errors.

You might want to try reinstalling windows in case something went weird.