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On Saturday I upgraded my HTPC. I moved from a 3700x AMD setup to an i5 13500 Intel machine. The board I chose was the Asrock B760 Pro RS, and I paired it with an Asrock X670E Pro RS for my main PC – everything was running smoothly. However, with my second system I faced challenges. The storage device I had used stopped working. It was a 500GB WD SATA M.2 drive that didn’t show up on the motherboard and wasn’t listed during Windows installation. I’ve experienced similar issues before: an older SATA slot that worked fine on one PC suddenly failed when switching to newer hardware. Eventually, I bought a 1TB NVME M.2 SSD from Best Buy, which my system recognized without trouble. The next hurdle was installing Windows on the HTPC. On my upgraded main machine and before the upgrade, I used a Ghost Spectre custom Windows 11 ISO – it worked well, but installing it on my current PC failed. Restarts after installation often triggered a blue screen. I attempted the Tiny11 ISO, but it also encountered the same issues. Eventually, I tried the official Windows 11 ISO (all versions were installed via Rufus), yet the problems persisted. I explored Linux for a while – after six months of various distros, I felt confident enough to switch back to Windows, mainly because my gaming performance was lacking. I tried Ubuntu, which worked fine once, but uninstalling Snaps with Flatpak caused major issues. I also attempted Windows 10, but the same blue screen and installation failures kept appearing. In the end, I found a temporary fix by swapping one of my drives – the NVME M.2 that had Windows 10 installed – into my HTPC. It booted perfectly afterward.
Confirm the latest BIOS update for the AsRock B760 board, which is version 3.01 released on 2023-01-13. Ensure RAPID storage or RAID is turned off in the BIOS settings. Verify that UEFI mode is active and Legacy mode is disabled. Disable Secure Boot and TPM as required. Assume no hardware problems are present, such as a faulty SSD.
I'll review it later tonight when I'm back home. Regarding secure boot and TPM, since I often install and use Linux distros, I won't enable them. I also think those issues shouldn't matter because I haven't faced any problems on my main PC running Windows 11 (Ghost Spectre iso). Mounting Windows ISO files with Rufus works smoothly there, even when disabling secure boot and TPM as a condition. I'll look into RAID or rapid settings, plus UEFI and CSM—I'm sure I noticed CSM was turned on before.
The "bone stock" updates for Windows 11 depend on TPM and Secure Boot. It’s unclear if only certain modified releases like Ghost Spectre work well with your system.
No, that's not correct. I managed to turn off the installation prerequisites with Rufus, allowing me to install the ISO on my main PC and the one I was using before upgrading its hardware on Saturday. I plan to adjust those settings and see if it fixes the issues. If that doesn't work, it might be a problem with the new NVMe drive I purchased. Another option could be checking if Windows 11 can be installed on that drive, which I used for Windows 10 on my other PC.
I’m having trouble getting this setup to function properly. With Rapid/Raid, I couldn’t locate it in my BIOS settings. It seems like a B series board might be missing that feature. I’ve set everything to UEFI and tested both with and without CSM enabled, but the difference isn’t noticeable since I’ve installed Windows many times before. Secure boot and TPM are still not tried. I doubt this is the main issue because Windows 10 doesn’t require it, and I couldn’t install it on my machine either. Maybe I’ll attempt it again with secure boot and TPM activated later to check. For now, I’m considering giving up and switching to Linux instead. I managed to install Garuda Linux successfully, which is my preferred Arch-based distro, and everything worked fine there. It’s puzzling why this system won’t let me install Windows versions. I even tried erasing the 250GB drive where I had Windows 10, but that didn’t fix the problem. If I really need to upgrade to Windows 11, I might have to transfer the OS from my current drive to my main PC, which has no issues during installation. I’m wondering if this could just be related to a faulty motherboard.