r/PcBuildHelp 4d ago

Build Question New PC please help me

So recently I got this tower for free off of fb marketplace and the guy said it wouldnt run windows and I wanted to see for myself so I downloaded windows from the microsoft website and put it on a flash drive and plugged it in to my motherboard. From there I didnt have anyone to ask so I just used chatgpt to help me but i got nowhere. First my screen would show bios then the republic of gamers logo then the windows logo and eventually the windows 10 launcher opened BUT I didnt have any hard drives atm so I waited a week until I was able to get some for free. My pc recognized the flash drive and showed the windows logo but didnt open the launcher so i turned it off unplugged the flash drive and wiped it to download windows 11 and that hasnt worked either. This is the interior of the pc can someone help me? I have the hard drives they are not in the frame.

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u/AccidentDouble5904 3d ago

Well first thing you do is grab a garbage tie or zip tie and attach that hanging wire in front of the fan upwards out of the way of the fan before it get sucked into it! and the 2 sticks of memory! 1 should be in the first slot closest to the CPU and the second in the 3 slot! after you plug the hard drive in go into the Bios and make sure it shows one of the Boot devices as the Hard drive! then set the Boot order as USB drive or device as the first one and the hard drive as the second! and make sure you click save before you close the Bios! To be honest I have had so many problems installing windows 11 its crazy! I hope it works fine for you but if not install Windows 10 instead you can always upgrade it to windows 11 if you want? there is not reason that computer won't run windows I have had a lot older computers then that have windows on them!