Old PC unable to boot from USB drive. I think it's a motherboard issue

[smartbits]

I have an older PC running Windows 8. I tried to install Windows 10 by downloading it from the Microsoft website and creating a USB installer.
I have went into the BIOS and made my USB drive the boot drive but when I restart the PC, I get a black screen and a cursor is flashing on the top left. I verified that the boot order was changed and I even tried going into the boot order screen (F12) and selecting my USB drive but the same thing happens.

My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-MAX790XT-UD4P. I thought that perhaps I had to enable the option to boot from a USB drive but I can't find any settings for this in my BIOS settings and since I see the option to boot from USB-HDD, it should worl. I do have a CDROM on this PC but I don't have any blank CDs so ideally, it would be great if I can find a way to boot from USB because I need to run a program on this PC that is not compatible with Windows 8.
The USB drive is flashing while I see the black screen and it is identified by the PC.

The USB drive is using FAT32 and has the 64 bit version of Windows 10 which should be supported by my CPU, which is an AMD Phenom II X3 710.

Does anyone know why it's not booting?

 

[ir_cow]

You may have to manually set it to UFEI boot.

 

[smartbits]

I just found out that it does not support UEFI.

 

[DR4G00N]

It will take a long time to load the installer from a usb drive over usb 2.0, so just come back to it in 5-10mins once it's at the screen with the blinking cursor.

 

[smartbits]

It will take a long time to load the installer from a usb drive over usb 2.0, so just come back to it in 5-10mins once it's at the screen with the blinking cursor.

You're right. Earlier today, I tried again and it took about 10 mins. I thought something might be wrong so I burned the Win 10 image onto a dual layer DVD but the same thing happened... it took about 10 mins to get to the windows setup. I've never had this happen before. Maybe older PCs have trouble loading the Windows 10 installer.

 

[Laurijan]

has propably to do with uefi bios or legacy bios setting, for windows uefi is best but if nothing helps try putting it into legacy boot

 

[smartbits]

has propably to do with uefi bios or legacy bios setting, for windows uefi is best but if nothing helps try putting it into legacy boot

I was able to install Windows 10. After the initial 10 minute delay, the installation process was slow but not that bad. It took about an hour in total and everything seems to be working fine.

I appreciate the help from everyone here.

 

[eidairaman1]

I was able to install Windows 10. After the initial 10 minute delay, the installation process was slow but not that bad. It took about an hour in total and everything seems to be working fine.

I appreciate the help from everyone here.

If you have an optical drive use it. I did on a Ryzen 7 5800 rig installed Windows 11 Pro on it.

 

[smartbits]

If you have an optical drive use it. I did on a Ryzen 7 5800 rig installed Windows 11 Pro on it.

I didn't think people still added an optical drive to new builds. Nice.

 

[eidairaman1]

I didn't think people still added an optical drive to new builds. Nice.

I do because I prefer having tangible media and suppose the internet craps out suddenly? Also not everyone has Gbps connectivity either. Bear in mind bits, not Bytes. Eg. 6 Mebibits is 768 KibiBytes.

 

[Lei]

I didn't think people still added an optical drive to new builds. Nice.

Btw, CPUs are made like DVDs.
A silicon wafer rotates under the light beam which etches circuit by cleaning the photosensitive layer. Then copper fills the lines defined during lithography process.

So your cpu was one day spinning like a dvd, faster than the speed of an airplane engine.

You can say cpus are humans and DVDs are orangutan. Except that we don't cut DVDs into square dies later on.

 

[Jetster]

f12 on boot