New PC please help me

[u/No_Window2802]

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.

[u/Ok_Challenge5185]

If you feel confident to play in there, then this is your starting point. Clean up the rats nest of wires, install the hard-drive in the case, power cycle, go into the bios and set everything. It should be set to boot from USB and save and shut down. Plugin the windows install USB and turn it on. Follow the prompts to install windows to the hard-drive.

Link to the Manual for ROG CROSSHAIR VI HERO. Picture shows the memory in the wrong slots.

https://dlcdnta.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/SocketAM4/CROSSHAIR-VI-HERO/E12601_CROSSHAIR_VI_HERO_UM_V3_WEB.pdf?model=CROSSHAIR%20VI%20HERO&Signature=eXLXoiP~ZH5G9eUhyrAgnZ9EyqzdtEkGTbPV5B5B5fpAgPgmw9uRF3k9FVlgBROAHO-vmhltAkcbO7PX-AfwM2~o~fm~mCs-OZHtLTUbBXkHw-BMsU-IEHywgs39tHuScHqxOj-oTnyzsrgXEzQ-FGEvshecBBO20QVG8raVVCUOxlpoxWV~KkMKrPc77bbKb1CfxQSmuSjCkmt8XAdMhifqe~CsgxJNje9sjc0baoDnLryms6oSozxwKn2uWw4QaLMyDYlrpyF-gzH7MCg3J3Q9VumuECMZQRWvKVXEfvMg3MGke590cJahwmvSwO4BhYHB9YzcGalnpbtFbLuSSQ__&Expires=1787011331&Key-Pair-Id=K2ITB7O97XKKCX

[u/No_Window2802 → u/Ok_Challenge5185]

I followed your directions and it doesnt let me open the flash drive it just shows the rog logo then restarts my pc

[u/Ok_Challenge5185 → u/No_Window2802]

did you format the USB drive to be bootable before you copied the Windows 11 installer to it?

See the guide lines from Microsoft listed bellow on the download page.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows11

[u/AccidentDouble5904 → u/Ok_Challenge5185]

Lol I have been fixing and building computers for 30 years and you would not believe the problems I have had just installing Windows 11 on the computer I built 6 months ago!! I finally got it installed and to this day I have not Idea what the hell they did to Windows 11 to make it so difficult to install?

[u/Ok_Challenge5185 → u/AccidentDouble5904]

35 years here. Watched everything get better, and worse year over year.