Installation USB won't boot Gigabyte Aorus B650 Elite AX V2

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I have tried a million BIOS changes, but I cannot get the latest ISO to boot from USB. It get’s part way, then hangs. I’ve tried the USB on my Thinkpad, and it boots up. I suspect some issue with the SSD. When I remove quiet and splash from the boot command, I see “reached encrypted volumes”. Does that mean it’s hanging on reading the drive?
Much appreciated.

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Generally speaking - I have no clue.

Logically - if the ISO boot on another system - you already narrowed it down to be an issue with the failing system - possibly hardware - perhaps disk related.

This would imply the ISO - while booting - has read one or more LUKS signatures from the system’s disk’s file system.

But it is impossible to provide a meaningful comment - it will be guesses at best.

Ask yourself - is the system disk encrypted - do I expect the ISO to find encrypted volumes?

If the answer is yes - the disk is likely flawed - but it is a guess.

Is the disk in question expected to contain any data?

Is the disk configured correct in the system’s firmware - commonly referred as BIOS?

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recheck options in UEFI motherboard

UEFI, create a profile and save for linux

recheck all option in your UEFI ( for linux)

SecureBoot off
Fast Boot off
No CSM
No Legacy
all disks on AHCI
No FastDisk

you can check in terminal

inxi  -Fxza
test -d /sys/firmware/efi && echo efi || echo bios
sudo efibootmgr -v
sudo parted -l
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The disk contains a Windows 11 install. No Bitlocker, no Memory Integrity, no TPM. I was thinking the next step would be to replace the drive.

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Will recheck the BIOS settings.

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I can’t get as far as a terminal. I would thinking gparted Live to allow me to delete the existing partitions, then try the install disk again.

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Gparted Live is reporting hard lockups on the CPU cores. This is a 9950x.

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can you add this option on grub ( boot command )

(e)dit , you will be in qwerty

split_lock_detect=warn

or
split_lock_detect=off

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Rebuilding the Windows Media Creation tool image since Gparted Live failed to boot as well. Then I’ll check the split lock parameter. Perhaps a clean install of Windows 11, then dual boot install will work.

Some more background, I’m running the latest firmware F37e for a few days now. I’ve tried loading Optimized defaults, and I’ve had to clear the CMOS once after getting stuck. It’s a puzzler.

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Please try use a development iso with linux 6.16

And please use ext4 - using btrfs may result in an unbootable installation with newer kernels (some say it is a conflict - a race condition perhaps - between the btrfs filesystem compression and the decompression of the kernel image).

EDIT:
The split lock detection should not be an issue with the installer ISO but alas - it doesn’t hurt to try - as long as one recognize why these arguments exist - please read the documentation.

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Thanks!
The windows re-install went fine. I deleted the partitions, and it went down clean. I’m thinking now that the firmware update I did makes the hardware unrecognized by the install media.

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Sorry for the confusion. I thought reinstalling Windows would get the installation media to boot, given the clean partitions. I didn’t mean to suggest the dev build worked. In fact, same result. It gets half way and hangs.
I have an older i7 box in storage. I’ll get that one out for my linux box.

EDIT: I plugged the monitor into the onboard Intel graphics port, and it booted. Odd, but there you go. The GPU is an Nvidia 4080. Tried the same USB on my old 3080 box, same boot problem. Plugged into the onboard port, and it booted.

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OP has given up installing Manjaro to the computer in question, in favour of another option. We wish them well.