Windows 10: Cannot installWindows , getting OOBE errors despite swapping disks

I have a laptop here that suddenly started going really slow, nothing I tried improved matters, so I decide the easiest thing to do would be to re-install Windows. However, it was still slow installing and then it crashed on an error OOBE REGION, I tried again and got the same result, Skipped it and got an OOBE KEYBOARD error. Whatever I tried, it was just slow as could be and always failed with an OOE error of some kind.

So, I changed the disk to another that I have, but I got identical problems !!!

What could be causing this ? My Windows installation USB ? I've used it before with no problems. The fact that it happens with 2 different disks has thrown me a bit, I understand a hardware error could cause the original problem of the laptop going slow, but not this. I've installed and re-installed Windows hundreds of times and have never seen anything like this !!!

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OOBE

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Getting Disk Read Error

"A Disk Read Error Occurred. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart "

Thats the error I get, it occured once in a while but recently started to occur frequently. Not sure if its the Hard Disk that is failing. I ran chkdsk, WD disk checking utilities and HD Tach disk speed checking and all seems to be fine. If this error occurs I have to shut down the machine, turn off power and then turn it back on. Will once again start to work fine.

Here is hardware

Mobo: Gigabyte 740G version 1.0
CPU: X2 BE2400
RAM: 2 x 2GB DDR2 800 Crucial Ballistix
HDD: WD Blue 160GB SATA 8MB cache
Video card: Power Color 2600XT
PSU: Antec Earthwatts 380W
OS: W7 Prof 64bit.

Changed SATA ports, seem to work fine but suddenly I get this error. Thought ram is crapping out at that speed, so set the ram at DDR2 667 and voltage at 1.9V.

CPU is slightly overclocked to 2.5Ghz from 2.3 and at 1.2v. The board and cpu has been working fine in my 2K3 server for almost a yr 24/7 and before that crunching 24/7 for BOINC for about 6 months.

Only thing changed is the RAM. Earlier it had a regular crucial DDR2 667 2 x 2gb ram.

Haven't updated the bios, its still in default bios that came with the board, never had a issue so didn't have a need.

My suspect is Ballistix ram.

Or is the board or CPU slowly dying? HDD is about 1 yr old, used sparingly before, but now used for OS about 3 months now.

I don't have a spare SATA drive to test it, have to go buy one.

So just want few suggestions/troubleshooting tips.

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