Dailyquinn

Okay, turns out it was two problems, one was the Displayport adapter for my TV, the other was that it was trying to boot in bios mode using the uefi files? Whatever it is, now am sucessfully booted in and installing. Thanks.

Well, got it to boot in. Need to lock down which of two variables it was, but it works now, so who cares

Hmm, fair enough. Currently trying to boot with a freshly downloaded ISO of 19.04, and bios is up to date, but I'll rip out my extra monitors and see if that fixes it. Thanks.

So, just to double check, you get no noise indication on the volume meter in your sound settings at all? Also, have you tried using the 'listen to this device' option to see if it's a software issue with whatever program not detecting it properly? If you still don't get any feedback from it, it sounds like you might have just wound up with a defective product, unfortunately.

I'd make sure you aren't running out of RAM. You've only got 8 gb, advertising to your post, and it's entirely possible that you have enough stuff running in the background that your computer is trying to dump some of it into the swap file and picking the wrong stuff... Like operating system files, right before they need to be accessed. Shouldn't happen, but we've all seen weirder stuff happen. Best way to do it would be to disable the swap file, then make sure you've got task manager open and try to duplicate the problem. If it gets over 90%, disable some startup programs and see if that helps. Assuming you have windows 10, you disable the swap file by going to control panel/system and security/system, then clicking on advanced system settings on the left. Then hit enter (the correct option is pre-selected), click advanced when the new screen pops up, and click "change" on virtual memory. Then uncheck "automatically manage paging file size for all drives" at the top, and select "no paging file". Click set, click okay, restart your computer.

Nah, ram shouldn't be an issue at all. Had the exact same amount, both per-stick and total (albeit at a lower speed) and I never even maxed it out, no matter what I was doing. Only issue was CPU for me, just couldn't keep pace with modern loads very well.

I've had a similar problem, and it was the stupidest thing.... Have you gone to the levels tab and made sure that it isn't set to 0? For some reason, I've had that happen multiple times with different headsets, different audio chips, and different computers. Was the last thing I checked the first 6/7 times.

Tl;Dr, you should be fine, but you may want an upgrade sooner or later. You're probably good, but at the same time you might want to think about upgrading your CPU... Which in turn (due to what hardware you have) would mean either throwing more power at it (fx-9xxx processor) or a Mobo and ram upgrade as well. I just upgraded from a phenom x6 1090t a while back, and that was causing a slight bottleneck for my overclocked 1050 FTW. Since your GPU being about twice as powerful, you might need a tiny bit more horsepower to keep it properly fed.

To be specific, the original issue was occuring after it loaded the splash screen, it would then kick it back to the console display with that error I mentioned, now it won't even get to the splash screen before it locks up. Keyboards are completely non-responsive the entire time, can't even get caps lock/num lock to trigger as tested using the lights on the keyboard itself.

That is a negative, trying to boot from USB.

Well, it won't even get that far in the boot process any more, I took pictures of the boot process, but it hangs at the end of the second picture, repeatedly.

*sigh* give me 5 minutes to recreate it, brb

So I finally got around to installing Ubuntu alongside my windows installation, and for some reason I can't even get it to boot, every time that it doesn't just freeze I get an error about 'no installation media detected' or something to that extent (sorry, not actively booting it atm) I've already tried disabling secure boot as much as possible (there is no on/off switch I could find, but deleting the keys causes the 'enabled' display to switch to 'disabled'), and turning off the both the xhci handoff and compatibility support module in bios in case those are causing problems, removing all USB devices except keyboard, mouse, and boot drive, and recreating the boot drive.... Twice. Any suggestions? (System boots into windows fine and runs like a champ, btw, no issues there) Specs: Ryzen 5 2400G 16gb ram-dual 8gb Corsair vengeance sticks Asus rog strix x370-f Gtx 1050 Thermaltake toughpower 750w Patriot burst 240 (boot) 2 random data disk drives, plus additional USB peripherals. Bios **IS** up to date, unless asus's updater is lying to me