Windows 10: Windows 10 Setup Stuck at Install Now

This is honestly the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

I bought a Windows 10 installation USB drive, and stuck it into my brand new PC build. The PC has an NVMe SSD (M.2) drive and no other hard disks. When booting the PC, the USB drive boots just fine. I get the menu to choose whether to do a 64-bit or 32-bit install (I choose 64-bit as I'm running a 2nd gen Ryzen 7 2700X CPU). The install program starts, I choose my language and region settings accordingly, and I then see the plain blue window that has a single button that says "Install Now". I click "Install Now", the window disappears, and I see the text at the bottom of the screen that says "Setup is starting...". Then the program goes back to the screen that says "Install Now". I can keep clicking the button and the same thing happens over and over again forever, but the installation never starts.

I thought it might be a problem with the M.2 drive, but I was able to install Ubuntu Linux on it with no problem, which means it's not the hardware. Under Linux, everything ran just fine. I also tried downloading an ISO from Microsoft and creating a bootable USB thumb drive, but the same thing happens, even with the media downloaded from Microsoft's website.

At this point I have no idea what to do. I've built many PCs but I've never seen this before. Can anyone out there help me out?

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