In the Fall of 2018 I built an epic PC for gaming / machine learning. It was based on the latest technology and included a number of high end parts but not limited to an AMD Threadripper 2950x, ASRock Taichi x399 motherboard, 2x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 TI in SLI and a Samsung 970 Evo M.2 SSD ( full parts list @ pcpartpicker ). When I built the machine in the fall, I loaded it with Windows 10 ( I think version 1803 ) and everything pretty much worked great. I was even able to have a 3DMark Score in the to
So, a few weeks ago I wanted to refresh the system, clear out any possible malware, and start fresh. I didn’t remember which version of windows I had, or what was on what USB key and before I knew it – I had created a new USB Installer key over the old with Windows 10 1809, little did I know that this is where my problems and headache would begin. When I went to install a fresh copy of Windows 10 1809, I started to run into a BSOD ( blue screen of death ) with a BUGCODE NDIS_DRIVER error.
Then the system would restart and produce a new “Install Windows” error in a dialog box. This error reads: