I'm hoping to get some help with this boot loop/purple screen problem I've got because I can't for the life of me figure it out. Background: About 4 or 5 days ago I walked into the room to see my pc on a BSOD (don't remember the reason at the bottom). My PC restarts fine and everything seems normal. I click to start a game and right before it would normally change from the desktop to the game, I get another BSOD, restart, and then get the endless spinning dots on the win10 load screen. After another restart or two I get put into "preparing automatic repair." If I let it go through that process it would end up with a black screen with only the cursor visible.

A buddy of mine is helping me out and we figured maybe a windows update got screwed up somehow and that caused the initial BSOD, then when I restarted, it tried to finish, but trying to load the game interrupted it again and that caused the big crash? Things we've tried: Booting with RAM in 1/3 instead of 2/4, only using 1 stick, only using the 24" monitor instead of my normal two. We thought maybe it was the mobo and since I had gotten it for Christmas, I exchanged/replaced it (went from X570 Taichi to X570 Crosshair 8 hero) at MicroCenter. They did some diagnostics before this point and they said the RAM, GPU, and processor all seem to be fine.

Back home, the first thing we did was try to do a fresh Win 10 install, but for some reason it didn't like the USB stick. We figured the problem might be because the bios version is from August and I have a ryzen 5600x which came out after that? We tried updating the bios from a different USB stick, but the board wouldn't flash the file. Not sure if that could be related to me using a chromebook to download the bios and transfer it onto the usb? We also tried updating the bios via ethernet, but for some reason the pc is showing on the network, but the board wouldn't create a dhcp, so the update wouldn't start.

He's going to bring his windows laptop tomorrow and we're going to try a new bios file. My fear is we're going to get the same purple screen with the cursor when the windows installer would normally show up.

Thoughts on what to do?

Thanks for any assistance you can provide!

specs:
Ryzen 5600x
GSkill 3600 CL16 RAM
GeForce 1080ti
Asus Crosshair 8 hero wifi Mobo
Win version: I think the latest, but maybe it was trying to update to it overnight when I found it BSOD.

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Solved: By wiping my M.2 drive (through the bios) that had my win 10 install on it, somehow that allowed the installer to display correctly on the monitor. Win 10 installed again on the M.2 and seems to be doing fine.