PC never shows apple boot logo, Mac OS Utilities page is unresponsive

Ryzen 5 1600 Asrock ab350 pro 4 Gtx 1060 3gb 16 GB DDR4 2600

Using latest installer of high Sierra from amd-OS X. Burned on to usb using transmac

When the pc boots, it often hangs on GIOScreenLock state for a couple of minutes but then boots directly to the Mac OS utilities page. On the utilities page everyone is extremely slow and laggy. After pressing the continue button to install, it took about 5 minutes to reach the next page.

Due to the lag/unresponsiveness, I was not able to format my drive.

Boot flags don’t seem to make a difference but tested nv_disable=1 and -x with no difference

Any leads/ideas?