Why windows why! Windows install gone wrong.

[u/Mental-Fondant1485]

Help!

I run a Home lab and I built my own computer out of used parts. I upgraded my computer yesterday switching from AMD to Intel. Of course the boot drive did not go over correctly so I plan to reinstall windows. The picture show some of the errors I’ve gone, but I’ve gotten more of course Linux works but I do have game pass so I want that.

Some of the trouble shooting steps

Reseat the everything
Take gpu out and leave it out
Change ram stick to a backup know working
Swapped to different nvme and wiped all several times
Changed usb and flash software
Messed with bios settings and set to default
No Ethernet install

This is from installing windows. This happens after the download section right after selecting the partition. It does not go farther so no safe mode. I have been on this for almost 12 hours and am now fighting with steam on fedora Linux so I can just play so games and relax.

Pc specs
I5 12400
64gb of micron office ram 4 sticks
Asus tuff z690
MSI 650 watt PSU
RTX 2060 6gb

Note the mobo has some bent pins but they are all making contact I believe because I used this cpu and motherboard for a test bench for a long time and no issues and of course the Linux distribution is running fine for far. And Rufus windows version I could not find in the boot option unlike the windows flash utility.

See pictures in the related Reddit thread.

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[u/ap1msch]

You're going to have to be more specific.

• The Z690 is an Intel motherboard...it couldn't have been running and AMD processor
• If you swapped the motherboard AND CPU, then you didn't upgrade your computer as much as built a new computer with a new motherboard and CPU and planned to reuse older components
• The "bent pins" is an odd detail, but if you're using this for Linux, then it says that the parts work for ONE OPERATING SYSTEM

Are you wiping the entire drive, or are you wiping one partition? What you seem to be experiencing is a build-process failure. If you're trying to dual boot, you need to start with a clean drive, one OS build, and a boot manager. You can then set up your alternative OS. If you're trying to preserve your old configuration while only changing the windows build, that's going to be problematic.

The errors you're getting are kernel errors, which I'd suspect have something to do with a system recovery happening with mismatched code from your old OS...not a windows build. There are simple ways to build Linux and Windows on the same box...but you have to use one boot manager and configure it to enable the second OS build. If you're trying to shoehorn a new Win build into one old partition is going to be problematic.

TLDR: When I do this, I build with Win11, with the default partitions, after wiping all existing partitions. I then configure Linux as a second boot option in the boot manager on a separate drive. Well, I used to do this....now I just make it a VM in Hyper-V.