Intel Motherboards : SM951 as OS boot device information

I am at work so don't have the exact link I downloaded from Microsoft but I created the USB from one of their Windows 10 images. 

I did ensure that when booting to the usb I selected the UEFI: usb to boot from. 

I also ensure I had no other drives connected to my system when i did the first several attempts to get this to work though several methods with various other errors including the one i mentioned with the winload.efi. But the last time I did try this my other OS drive was connect as I booted into in to install the samsung nvme controller driver thinking that maybe this would fix the issue. I should have disconnected it before I attempted another install. That's on me. I will try this again when I get home. 

Do you know if there is a specific version of Windows 10 that I may need to download from Microsoft to create my UEFI boot usb? Is it possible the version I was pointed to was missing a driver or setting to handle M.2 SSD's maybe? 

Would using Rufus to create the USB boot drive be another option? I wasn't too sure about using this utility... 

Thanks again for your help. I may just still have some hair left at the end of this. :)