PC restarts repeatedly during Windows installation process
PC restarts repeatedly during Windows installation process
You begin by assembling and customizing a PC for a friend. It performed well until a crash during Borderlands 3. The M.2 SSD broke despite proper installation, prompting a replacement. Windows installation failed, only the loading screen appeared briefly before rebooting. Switching to another M.2 drive with preinstalled OS worked, but a subsequent crash repeated the issue. A local repair suggested damaged PCIe lanes, leading to a motherboard swap, yet the same problem persisted. Recently, the second M.2 slot isn’t detected in BIOS regardless of the SSD used. The CPU appears fine. This situation is confusing...