Hello all,
I brand new here as well as to the PC building world. I need some assistance with an error I cannot resolve. I have talked to some friends and they are not sure what the issues are either. Excuse me if I am not aware of proper post formatting here; I tried to read all pinned posts first. Okay, here goes:
My Hardware:
- i7 8700k
- Asus ROG Strix z370-E Gaming
- 32 GB kit (4 x 8GB) GSkill Trident RGB RAM @ 3200 MHz
- NVME M.2 Samsung 960 Evo, 500 GB
- Asus ROG Strix GTX 1080ti
- Corsair HX1000
- Custom EK water loop
Other Information:
- BIOS: Ver. 0408
- Attempted install OS: Windows 10 Pro
Current Situation and Background:
The PC appears to boot up correctly (as far as I can tell) and access the UEFI BIOS Utility. I had some issues with only being able to use 3/4 RAM modules but enabling XMP seemed to fix this. I downloaded Windows Media Creation Tool on my laptop to start loading Win 10 on a bootable USB drive. Did not work at first, so I disabled my antivirus (Avira) and tried again and it functioned. So, I plug in this USB drive to my custom PC, turn it on, tap F8 a few times to get to the boot drive options. I see my USB drive and my SSD. I boot to my USB drive and the Windows installer shows up. I follow it through, get to the key query step, and type in my license. It tells me it is invalid. I presume this might be a problem with not having internet access, so I continue without it. I get to the restart step, and get a blue screen upon a very long restart. I do not remember the error code, but I did write down subsequent ones. So, I try again. I F8 into my boot drive options, and see that there are two USB drive options: UEFI: XXXX Partition and XXXX Partition, with XXXX being the USB drive name. I have tried to boot into both options. Most recently I have selected the UEFI one and got this error code:
- 0xc0000098 - "The operating system couldn't be loaded because the system registry file is missing or contains errors. File: \windows\system32\config\system"
I have also gotten:
- 0xc0000428 - "The digital signature for this file couldn't be verified."
- 0xc0000221 - "The operating system couldn't be loaded because the kernel is missing or contains errors. File: \Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe"
I should mention I have tried to install on a separate flash drive also using the ISO+Rufus method and get these errors, I believe.
Alright, I think I included what I know so far. Where should I start? Have I missed something?
Thank you for your assistance.
I brand new here as well as to the PC building world. I need some assistance with an error I cannot resolve. I have talked to some friends and they are not sure what the issues are either. Excuse me if I am not aware of proper post formatting here; I tried to read all pinned posts first. Okay, here goes:
My Hardware:
- i7 8700k
- Asus ROG Strix z370-E Gaming
- 32 GB kit (4 x 8GB) GSkill Trident RGB RAM @ 3200 MHz
- NVME M.2 Samsung 960 Evo, 500 GB
- Asus ROG Strix GTX 1080ti
- Corsair HX1000
- Custom EK water loop
Other Information:
- BIOS: Ver. 0408
- Attempted install OS: Windows 10 Pro
Current Situation and Background:
The PC appears to boot up correctly (as far as I can tell) and access the UEFI BIOS Utility. I had some issues with only being able to use 3/4 RAM modules but enabling XMP seemed to fix this. I downloaded Windows Media Creation Tool on my laptop to start loading Win 10 on a bootable USB drive. Did not work at first, so I disabled my antivirus (Avira) and tried again and it functioned. So, I plug in this USB drive to my custom PC, turn it on, tap F8 a few times to get to the boot drive options. I see my USB drive and my SSD. I boot to my USB drive and the Windows installer shows up. I follow it through, get to the key query step, and type in my license. It tells me it is invalid. I presume this might be a problem with not having internet access, so I continue without it. I get to the restart step, and get a blue screen upon a very long restart. I do not remember the error code, but I did write down subsequent ones. So, I try again. I F8 into my boot drive options, and see that there are two USB drive options: UEFI: XXXX Partition and XXXX Partition, with XXXX being the USB drive name. I have tried to boot into both options. Most recently I have selected the UEFI one and got this error code:
- 0xc0000098 - "The operating system couldn't be loaded because the system registry file is missing or contains errors. File: \windows\system32\config\system"
I have also gotten:
- 0xc0000428 - "The digital signature for this file couldn't be verified."
- 0xc0000221 - "The operating system couldn't be loaded because the kernel is missing or contains errors. File: \Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe"
I should mention I have tried to install on a separate flash drive also using the ISO+Rufus method and get these errors, I believe.
Alright, I think I included what I know so far. Where should I start? Have I missed something?
Thank you for your assistance.
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