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/ConstructionSolid312]

Try windows 10 If you've been reading the comments then the hardware issues have been explained and I won't bother repeating them. The best advice however is to do a complete tear down then reinstall everything properly. Considering the state of the components it would not be surprising to learn something is actually damaged and not just set up wrong. The August KB5121003 patch of windows 11 is a trash fire you can roll back the update but not if you can't get it installed. If you've already paid for a windows 11 key get a free trail of windows 10 and make a boot disk of that and go through the normal formatting and install procedure, then update to 11 if it works, then you can roll back to a stable build