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got told to crosspost over here to reach more people:

https://kbin.social/m/linuxquestions/p/4631784

I don't know if and how crossposting functions in kbin/lemmy, so hopefully it'll work that way

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[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago (18 children)

I think you can safely ignore all the errors that happen while acpi=off. That will switch all kinds of things around and the operating system can't set up the hardware properly without it, so it is to be expected that half the things crap out and throw error messages. Could be a red herring anyways.

Are you sure Secure Boot is switched to "Other OS"? (see https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1049829/ ) You could verify that with the 'msinfo32' in the guide.

And I'm really not sure if it's the UEFI. From your description it seems you're getting to the boot loader and something happens after... Maybe try not messing with the acpi, but removing the "quiet" and "splash" if they're there and adding "nomodeset" instead. After you hit Enter (or Ctrl-X with Grub) the early kernel messages should pop up. Something with loading and initrd or like that. What happens then? Does it load the kernel? Do additional log messages with a boot process appear? (If it's too fast, you can try a video recording of your screen with your phone.)

[–] Varen@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago (16 children)

took the video
https://youtu.be/855QTzZlhWk
as you can see, absolutely nothing happens or shows up. (still uploading rn, should be available shortly)

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Really weird. Honesty, I currently have no idea how to proceed. Maybe I can google a bit later/tomorrow. But it's not looking good. There doesn't seem to be any good information out there concerning that mainboard an Linux. And since we don't get an error message there isn't a clear thing to begin with.

I would have expected at least something happening on the video. Maybe a few lines of text and then the screen flickering and going to black... But nothing?

[–] Varen@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yeah, that's the reason I am so desperate ... I understand, so maybe about time to look around for a new mobo?
anyways, I wanted to thank you very much for your time and effort in figuring out and trying to help me, I really do appreciate it very much!

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No problem. I wish I could have provided you with a solution. If you have something like a 14 days free return policy, I'd consider returning it. Otherwise, wait a few days before you start thinking about a new motherboard. Maybe someone with a better idea still replies to you.

But I can empathize with your situation. I also used to have hardware that was a mess or didn't work at all. It's just annoying.

[–] Varen@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No worries, at least you tried and I‘m grateful for it.

One last thing: so you would also go for mobo replacement? In my opinion its uefi/bios and a new mobo should help, but I like having more opinions…

Thank you again for trying

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

It's likely the mobo. A Ryzen processor and a nvidia 3070 isn't so uncommon. And you already said you updated the BIOS and put quite an amount of effort in.

If you can return it or have a friend in need of a mobo... I'd swap it... However, there is still a possibility that someone reads your post on the weekend and happens to know something more. Or you use Linux in a VM from within Windows. That may work, I don't know you, I wouldn't do it since I use Linux 99% of the time.

Only thing I would advise against is hoping the issue will someday get fixed. In many cases it never happens.

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