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New build not booting up properly.

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Ryzen 5 5600x processor
ASRock b550 Phantom Gaming 4 motherboard
GSkill Ripjaws V series ddr4-3600 8GBx2 ram
corsair 750 gold PSU
MSI 580 Armor 8g OC GPU

New build reusing an old psu and gpu. When booting up I get a black screen saying: Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key. I've found a a weird workaround to get it to boot to his desktop but I don't know why it won't work normally. To get it to boot I first turn on the pc without his ssd (with windows) plugged in and boot to the bios screen. I then plug his ssd in and hit the reset button and it works perfectly fine. I've done this like 5 times. But every time I restart after installing drivers or w/e it boots to that black screen, and sometimes a blue screen saying something about windows needing a repair or something similar. A friend said it might be a bad ssd cable, bad motherboard slot or bad connection somewhere. I have tried new sata cables and different motherboard positions and replugged those cords in. Only thing I haven't tried is replacing the psu cords that connect to the hard drive, because I don't have an extra. There are some fans running off the other connections on that psu cord but I've unplugged those and it doesn't seem to make a difference.

We did this build because his old pc seemingly died. there were a bunch of error codes which seemed to point to ram but replacing the ram and using different slots just made new error codes and we figured it might just be the motherboard so I bought the processor, motherboard, and ram from a pcpartpicker build on black friday just to get him going again.
Originally he was using a 960 but we couldn't get this new build to boot with it, my friend gave us the 580 and it ran at his house where we were building it. We were using my friends ssd to build it because I somehow forgot to bring my brothers but I had booted up with my brothers connected to my computer after his old one died and it booted fine.

Do I just need to buy the new psu cords, and if its not that just buy a new hard drive?
 
do you have the data backed up.
If yes reinstall windows.
connect
Check it shows in bios (may need a bios update if not showing)
If drive does show DO NOT UPDATE BIOS.

Reinstall Win 10 Fresh Install

Download the win 10 tool run it to recreate the flash drive – Must be minimum 8GB

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows10


Watch this video
How To Install Windows 10 From USB - YouTube

In the video at 2:35 Where to install Windows. Highlight each partition and delete.

Then install on the unallocated space.


In the video at 2:54 you will notice it restarts the computer.
When you are doing this and you get to that point Remove the usb stick whilst it is restarting.
Also if you want to setup a local account instead of logging in with a Microsoft account
Turn off your wireless network and or remove the network cable.
This point is 3.32 in the video - Choose I don't have internet.
If you want to log in with a Microsoft account then leave the network as is.



Before doing any install, it is a good idea to go to the support page for your system. Download the drivers you are going to need i.e. chipset, sound, video, wireless, etc. WhilstWin10 has a lot of native drivers, Microsoft drivers are designed for ease of use and are NOT designed for any type of performance. Store these drivers on another usb or you can even just make a folder on your install usb when you are finished making the install usb. Copy the drivers into that folder.

When you are finished with the Windows install, then install your drivers.

  • Chipset or Motherboard
  • Sata or hard drive
  • Video adapter
  • Network interface card (NIC)
  • Audio
  • Touchpad
  • Any other hardware drivers needed for your particular model.
Reboot after installing the drivers
 
What version of BIOS is installed?

Wrong RAM for the CPU. Just because the motherboard says yes does not mean that the CPU can.
GSkill Ripjaws V series ddr4-3600 8GBx2 ram


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