I took out the USB drive out of the PC in the middle of Windows installation now my PC wont post when i try to boot

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My PC wont post anymore when i took the USB out of the pc in the middle of windows installation.
I got a Kingston A400 240GB ssd , b350m gaming pro msi motherboard and a ryzen 3 1200 cpu paired with a gtx 1050 in there.
 
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Yeah, it's not the bios that concerns me as much as the cmos.
Op, here's how it works.
There's basically 3 processes that happen at boot. You have the Bios which gets things moving and organized. You have CMOS which is where all the info Bios needs to get going is stored and then the OS loads. During a normal boot, bios pulls any and all info directly from the cmos, uses that to Kickstart the pc into post, and then starts loading the OS. By pulling out the battery, you effectively clear out the cmos, that's that batterys only job, to keep power in cmos. With a cleared out cmos, bios now actually had to work for a living and go hunting down any and all hardware, drivers, settings it needs to accomplish the post. During the multiple...
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My PC wont post anymore when i took the USB out of the pc in the middle of windows installation.
I got a Kingston A400 240GB ssd , b350m gaming pro msi motherboard and a ryzen 3 1200 cpu paired with a gtx 1050 in there.
 
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i removed it when windows 10 asked me to pick keyboard layout than the pc turned off and wont post anymore when i try to turn it on
 
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Do you know what refusing to post actually looks like? or are you talking about refusing to boot?
 
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the monitor says no signal when i click the button on the case. and the gpu doesnt light up
 
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Post and windows are separate entities entirely, windows doesn't affect post in the slightest as post happens long before windows even loads. So you have a separate issue, that's not related to the windows installation process. I'd start by unplugging the pc, push and hold the power button for 20 seconds. Pull out the watch battery and count to 15. Then put it all back together. See if it boots.
 
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sorry for my bad expresion when writing this im upset beacuse what stupid mistake i made by pulling that usb out in the middle of windows install may i give you a video how it looks so you can help me troubleshoot easier
 
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Thanks, that's where I was going, It was 11pm+ over here, I'm thinking that a bios reset shouldn't cure it, but was trying to get actual symptoms to be described without using technical terms, as the technical terms when used incorrectly don't explain the real problem.
 
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Yeah, it's not the bios that concerns me as much as the cmos.
Op, here's how it works.
There's basically 3 processes that happen at boot. You have the Bios which gets things moving and organized. You have CMOS which is where all the info Bios needs to get going is stored and then the OS loads. During a normal boot, bios pulls any and all info directly from the cmos, uses that to Kickstart the pc into post, and then starts loading the OS. By pulling out the battery, you effectively clear out the cmos, that's that batterys only job, to keep power in cmos. With a cleared out cmos, bios now actually had to work for a living and go hunting down any and all hardware, drivers, settings it needs to accomplish the post. During the multiple restarts windows installation, some of those cmos drivers are added, updated, deleted etc so with an interruption in power, it's entirely possible that a driver or hardware id was corrupted, which would be saved in the cmos, which gets used by bios and flunks post. By resetting the cmos, forcing the bios to do its own dirty work, hopefully that corruption is deleted, bios now gets a clean post.
 
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However yanking the USB stick whilst installing windows should in no way affect the bios & the settings held in CMOS. Well I suppose there is a way and that would be if it created some kind of surge that corrupted something, but that's way out on left field. What's held as settings is quite difficult to change out side of the bios.

I'd be thinking it is a boot order issue, it's booting off of the HDD which has a partial windows install on it, enough that it doesn't declare that there is no boot disk, but not enough that there is an error message. Perhaps with fast boot on it's not showing the splash screen and post information.
 
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So i need to get that battery on the motherboard out for about 10 minutes than put it back in?
 
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