Yesterday, I built my first gaming PC (almost, I have yet to purchase a GPU. I plan to run on the CPU's integrated graphics until then). I've been having trouble trying to install Windows 10 on it with a USB drive. I used the Media Creation Tool from the Microsoft website, and formatted an 8GB USB drive to install Windows 10 64-bit. Whenever I booted up the computer (which was countless times, between tweaking things in BIOS and etc.), it would show a black screen with the blue Windows 10 logo briefly, then give me the blue error screen saying "system thread exception not handled." I switched out the USB drive for another 32GB one I have, and that made absolutely no difference whatsoever.
After doing a lot of research and experimenting in the BIOS for several hours, I finally received a different result when I removed one stick of two sticks of RAM I installed. It no longer blue screens, but it is stuck on the Windows 10 logo screen instead. I'm assuming this is another issue altogether, but I honestly have no idea.
I have tried booting with stock BIOS settings, booting the USB drive manually, with XMP settings, with manual CPU and memory settings, with secure boot off, using different USB slots (3.1, 3.0, 2.0), with mouse and/or keyboard unplugged, updating the BIOS driver, without entering BIOS at all, switching RAM sticks' slots, changing boot priorities, and so on.
PC Specs:
Motherboard: Asus Prime Z370-A
CPU: Intel i7-8700K
CPU Graphics: Intel UHD 630
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z DDR4-3200 (2x8GB)
Storage: Seagate FireCuda 2TB 3.5"
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified
Case: NZXT Phantom 410 (Black)
Monitor: Asus VG248QE 24"
Please help me, this is driving me insane. If I can get this to work WITHOUT purchasing a GPU, I would love to know how.
Thank you.
After doing a lot of research and experimenting in the BIOS for several hours, I finally received a different result when I removed one stick of two sticks of RAM I installed. It no longer blue screens, but it is stuck on the Windows 10 logo screen instead. I'm assuming this is another issue altogether, but I honestly have no idea.
I have tried booting with stock BIOS settings, booting the USB drive manually, with XMP settings, with manual CPU and memory settings, with secure boot off, using different USB slots (3.1, 3.0, 2.0), with mouse and/or keyboard unplugged, updating the BIOS driver, without entering BIOS at all, switching RAM sticks' slots, changing boot priorities, and so on.
PC Specs:
Motherboard: Asus Prime Z370-A
CPU: Intel i7-8700K
CPU Graphics: Intel UHD 630
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z DDR4-3200 (2x8GB)
Storage: Seagate FireCuda 2TB 3.5"
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified
Case: NZXT Phantom 410 (Black)
Monitor: Asus VG248QE 24"
Please help me, this is driving me insane. If I can get this to work WITHOUT purchasing a GPU, I would love to know how.
Thank you.