Simple Bios Update Turned Into Disaster

Operating Systems & Open Source Virtualization
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I’m going to start with the pc specs

  • OS - Windows 10/ no os 64 bit
  • Custom build - 3 yrs old
  • Ram - 16 gb 3200
  • CPU model
  • Video Card - rtx 3070
  • MotherBoard - Asus Tuff x570
  • Power Supply - 850 evga
  • Storage - WD 850x (gen 4) and Sabrient Rocket(gen 3) both 1tb

So my friend wanted to update his bios to get access to resizable bar so he hooked up an external drive with the latest bios firmware. After updating it wouldnt boot and he had 2 windows boot options, and one of them worked but windows audio drivers were missing/disabled (could not reinstall). He decided a clean windows install as he was about to upgrade cpu and he had transferred windows from an old oem dell prebuild. At first the drives refused to wipe/reformat. After some time we managed to wipe the drive and start the windows installation via the windows media creation tool. But not matter what we keep getting this error → installation cancelled ,any changes made to your computer wont be saved. Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install windows restart the installation.

Any help is greatly appreciated thanks.

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Maybe as a test do the following:

Remove both NVMe storage devices, connect up any SATA based SSD to reformat and install a test Windows OS onto.

I would also do a clear CMOS and then load the BIOS defaults and save and then see what happens.

Maybe the BIOS update failed in some obscure way.

Does this mobo have a secondary BIOS option ?

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Unplugged all the other drives and it worked! luckily it was a simple solution, mad at myself for not thinking of it myself. thank you.

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Very nice, could be that one of the other storage devices had some MBR info that was conflicting with the Windows installer ?

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that actually might have been it. something about boot order was mentioned to me.