All of these resulted in the same behavior mentioned in the title.
After I bought this laptop I installed a Samsung 970 pro evo ssd (1TB) nvme as my only disk, a linux-friendly wifi card, and 64gb of quality ram. The laptop booted right up to Windows 10 upon receiving it, so I'm sure I didn't get a lemon.
How would I go about troubleshooting what's wrong? When it halts it hasn't loaded the kernel and the instructions set appears to just stop altogether. No keystroked register, all I can do is hold down the power button until the device powers off.
I find this strange because the arch usb iso boots fine (with two errors indicating missing firmware for this specific laptop's backlighting controls and one other non-critical feature.
I'm fairly technical and I use a bsd variant (MacOS X) every day at work, but I've never had to troubleshoot a problem after POST but before the kernel is loaded.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
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