Recent content by bobkn

I forget. Does that give an unformatted partition? 16GB can be easily formatted as NTFS or FAT32. I'd choose NTFS.

If it provided good service in a music player, that's probably not it. It isn't a new card. On the other hand, Amazon lists any number of 16GB SD cards for 8USD. Throwing the card away wouldn't be a tragic loss. Even in the UK, I hope.

I don't recall what Armoury Crate did that inspired me to uninstall it. It may have simply been that it didn't serve any purpose that I felt I needed. (I've done driver updates manually for decades, for example.)

Unusual amount of traffic for an RP build, IMHO.

A suggestion: What does Disk Manager show for the card? Posting a screenshot of the Disk Manager view may be helpful.

What build of Windows 11 are you running? (Type winver in the search box.) 22621.5415 seems to be an old 22H2 version.

My Z690-E motherboard apparently wants to download and install Armoury Crate automatically. There's a BIOS setting for that. I've disabled it. I usually avoid large MB utilities. Others may want one.

A suggestion: re-enable the LEDs on the motherboard. They aren't just for decoration. (I assume that your case has a side window, so you can see them.)

The motherboard seems to not be getting power. There are LEDs on the board that should light when power is applied, but the PC hasn't been turned on yet.

The obvious conclusion is that the motherboard isn't receiving power. The power connections at the MB and PSU have locks, so it'd be nearly impossible that one of those came loose. Is the power switch of the PSU in the on position? That's the only thing I can thick of that'd be easy to change...

I took a typing class in high school (around 1970). It was taught using old Remington mechanical typewriters. I needn't have bothered. I recently switched to an inexpensive keyboard from Cherry, with "scissor" switches. (Not of interest to you, because it's straight.) Speeded things up a bit...

I've not used MBR for years. I believe that if you have deleted the partitions on the drive and created a single new NTFS partition with no traces of a former OS installation, a clean Windows install will not put files on it rather than the target drive. But I do clean installs rarely. More...

Double click the ISO. That mounts it as a virtual DVD. Open that, click Setup. Choose to keep files and programs.

If you wish to do it other than using Windows Update, all that you need to do is download the ISO. Double click on the ISO to mount it as a virtual DVD. Launch setup. (Very easy.) You don't need to create a bootable medium. You can only launch a repair install from within Windows. If you boot...

That's not your problem. Don't swap CPUs. I recommend that you disable CSM, enable Secure Boot, and enable fTPM. I admit that I'm not sure whether all of those are absolutely required to install Win 11, but there's little reason not to set things up that way. If I had to guess, it's the fTPM...