Bluescreen during Windows 10 installation

Hello all,

I am new here but I hope I can still get some help

First I'd like to say I'm very experienced when it comes to hardware, and I work with enterprise hardware and Windows server, yet I am at a loss here.

First my setup:
Intel i7 7700K
Gigabyte Z270X Gaming 9
2x AMD R9 290 (reference cards with fullcover waterblocks)
2x Samsung M.2 OEM drives pulled from new Lenovo laptop (RAID 0)

So, my problem is that whenever I get to where I need to select the drive I want to install Windows to they don't show up. I load the RAID driver but during this loading I get the bluescreen WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR and I cannot for the life of me figure out why.

This is an upgrade from two ADATA SATA SSD's in RAID 0 that was running legacy RAID BIOS to UEFI M.2 RAID 0.

First I found out that my GPU's do not support UEFI. Something about a GOP driver for the BIOS. I have updated both GPU's to a newer BIOS that supports UEFI. Before when I disabled CSM I would get no picture, now I get a picture and the BIOS can see what GPU I have.

After this I created the RAID volume which is seen by the BIOS, and by going into "Intel RST" in the BIOS I see the volume and it says "BOOTABLE". Finally ready for Windows 10!

First problem is that Windows 10 isn't finding the drives. I guess that is down to Windows 10 not having the proper NVMe driver. I have a USB key with the driver on. I press on load driver, I find the driver and I press next. Windows is loading the driver but as the green bar is being filled for the 22nd time it freezes completely.
This also happens if I simply press "refresh" to refresh the drives. After a while of loading the installations freezes and after about 30 seconds the bluescreen pops up.

System is running default, Only Windows 8/10 and CSM disabled has been set in BIOS.
I've tried upping the voltage for VCORE, VCCIO, SA, DDR and cache to the point I'd normally be running when overclocking to this system's limit. Still no dice. Still stock speeds.

System is fully watercooled, CPU, GPU's, RAM and VRM, all of which does not exceed 35 degrees celcius when installing Windows 10.

I have tried two different BIOS for my motherboard. The newest is F9b which is a BETA BIOS. I've been running with that for 3 years but for the sake of it I downgraded to F7 which is latest stable. Still nothing.

Windows 10 USB key was made with Rufus to make it UEFI bootable instead of legacy. USB key shows up as UEFI in BIOS.

I have tried Windows 10 1511, 1709 and 1807 I believe it was, all of which are giving me exactly the same bluescreen.

System is stable and can boot Linux no problem. System has been stable for the past 3 years with SATA RAID 0.

Where do I go from here? If this system wouldn't be 50kg+ it would have gone out the window but I guess I'm stuck with it. Please, suggestions are very welcome!

Thank you for your reply!

Sadly I don't think the problem is the same. The guy was having problems seeing his RAID volume, I believe Windows would be able to see mine if I only could load the driver or refresh the drive list, only everytime I do so I get the bluescreen.

I just thought that I should try a different USB key. I have a 2.0 key where I'm using a 3.0 key right now.

But thank you for reading, I know it is a long post.

Any other suggestions are welcome!

In case anyone needs it (My problem seem very system specific but here we go anyway) I finally fixed ALL of the problems I was having.

There were so many different things to try, but ultimately I changed from my Kingston Datatraveler G4 16GB (USB 3) USB key to an intenso 32GB USB 2 drive. This got me another bluescreen but it was progress, since what I got was MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION. This seems to be a more common problem but no threads I could find on google was any helpful.

My motherboard has two BIOS chips and I was running on the backup one, which is running version F9b, which is a BETA BIOS. I changed the BIOS to the primary one that's running F7 and BINGO, no bluescreens anymore!

Next problem was that the driver I had for the iRST was not the correct one. I tried various I could find on the official website but none of those worked. It would write something with unable to install driver contact your vendor.
If it didn't show that message it would endlessly load the little green bar, I stopped it after 30 minutes.

I popped in the driver DVD (yeah I still have DVD drive), navigated to the iRST driver (located at /boot/iRST) and BINGO AGAIN! Drive showed up and the system is currently at Windows 10 desktop, no issues and insanely fast speeds from two NVMe drives in RAID 0!

That was an incredibly long journey but it finally worked out. If you have the same issue trying different BIOS versions might help, and try all available iRST drivers before giving up!