New PC BSOD on first boot

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I thought for a change, I would get someone else to build my PC, so I went with Novatech’s ‘Full Customisation based on AMD X670’.

Just my luck to pick a weekend where Novatech appears to have shut down early on Friday and are not opening again until Tuesday, which is why I am here on the forums.

The mods I chose were:

  • NZXT H5 Flow Mid Tower Chassis
  • ASU ROG Strix X670E-F
  • AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
  • BeQuiet! Dark Rock 4 Air Cooler
  • Corsair Vengeance 64GB (2x32GB) AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR5 5600MHz CL40
  • MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Ventus 2X OC 12GB GDDR6X
  • WD Black SN850X 2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD
  • Corsair RM850e V2 80 PLUS Gold Fully Modular 850W ATX 3.0 Power Supply
  • Windows 11 Pro

On boot the motherboard has an amber LED for ~50 seconds, followed by the LED sequence: red, white, green, off. The Novatech logo appears next, then one of 2 BSOD. The first BSOD gives the stop code: KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE. The second BSOD gives me various repair options.

Looking in the BIOS settings and visually inspecting the components, I cannot see anything wrong. Nothing looks or smells burnt out.

The PC does boot into safe mode. Does anyone have any recommendations on what to-do next to try and fix my PC?

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In case anyone reads these forums, I did manage to fix my PC in the end, I believe it was simply a bad install of Windows 11.

For anyone who is stuck in a similar situation, here are the steps to fix Windows 11 on a new PC.

On a working PC insert a USB memory stick and set-up the memory stick for fixing your PC:

  1. Make a boot-able USB memory stick with the Windows 11 installation media
  2. Download and copy the BIOS to the USB memory stick
  3. Download and extract the motherboard LAN drivers to the USB memory stick

On the broken PC insert the USB memory stick:

  1. Install the BIOS to the motherboard: [Motherboard/Desktop] ASUS EZ Flash 3 - Introduction | Official Support | ASUS Global
  2. In the BIOS, configure to boot from the USB memory stick
  3. Save and exit the BIOS and start installing Windows 11
  4. The installation will get stuck on the finding a network.
  5. Use the following guide to install the network driver: [Windows 11] Troubleshooting - No Wi-Fi network connectivity when installing Windows 11 | Official Support | ASUS Global