My apologies, yes, I did mean “LiveUSB” not “LiveCD”.
Verified my my ISO was not corrupted, and yes, I have tried several other distros all with the same result.
Also, I do believe this is a power management problem. After digging through the ASUS forums I found a user complaining that their G533QR locked up frequently in Windows in low power modes, others chimed in and confirmed the behavior. ASUS’s response was to have them send their laptops in for repairs, interestingly the ASUS rep never mentioned why they needed to do this.
Is there a way to force power mode options during a Linux installation?
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Well, he should do the checksum first, then redownload if it fails, if it succeeds redownloading would do him no good, but sure if you say etcehr and fedora media writer are good I’ll take your word for it. The reason I suggested going the tried and tested dd route is simply that in my experience tools like this just aren’t ever long-term reliable, with the exception of dd. And the reason rufus is reliable is because it just straight up uses dd. I’ve had a lot of bad experiences with software that deals in disk management, some that are generally fine just randomly not being so fine sometimes. You can see it in the article i linked to for creating the installation media as a start for how many of these kinds of software used to work but just stopped working (and keep being recommended everywhere anyways, unetbootin is a pretty big one)
@Varanus1138 here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling#Scaling_governors
I’m not saying your wrong. I was just surprised you have no knowledge of etcher or Fedora Media Writer. Rufus is good also if you know how to use it. We’ve had many users having problems using Rufus trying to install since the beginning of EOS but it’s also known to work.
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Have you read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/ASUS
There are many tips that seem very important.
Another link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ASUS_ROG_G533QS
I wonder if using amd_pstate=active on the live ISO would make any difference?
The reason why they need to be sent for repairs is probably to replace shitty chips they cheaped out on when manufacturing these things.
Basically this:
It talks mostly about ram but manufacturers have for the past few years been basically scamming us by putting worse and worse chips on just about everything, meaning probably also your laptop motherboard.