A88X-G43 Odd usb behavior Linux live boot Flash Drive

So i bought this A88X-G43 and it posts and all. I'm trying to install ubuntu server to an SSD and it's just not happening. I even tried just running the Ubuntu desktop live usb. It gets to the point where i can choose to run or perform the install, then reboots. When I perform a server install, i cannot boot into it, due to an error about a partition that did not get created.
Hardware:
APU: AMD A10-6800K
mobo: A88X-G43 *came with v3.4 bios, flashed to 3.5. flashed back to 3.4 for testing.
PSU: Corsair CX600m
Hard drive: Patriot Pyro 120gb
Ram: 4gb of 1333 Samsung ram(testing from work computers) *Board would not recognize my Patriot memory.
I had an install running on another MSI motherboard same hardware(besides ram, worked on that board), with no problems.
I'm at a loss. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A temporary fix is, when installing Linux whether desktop or server, you need to do the following.
When you're prompted for Language, you will see some Function key options at the bottom.
Hit Esc and choose F6 then use "nomodeset" then continue with install.
Once you have linux installed you have to edit grub. It will need to look like the line below
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"
Once you've made your edit and saved the grub file, update grub and reboot.
Tested and is a good workaround.

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From now on this instructions are specific to opensuse and yast but can be generalized to whatever Linux is being used.
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The yast install configurator made all this manual selection easy, and after the manual configuration the partitioning worked perfectly.
Next step was Linux user configuration which went fine
Next was booting.
In the section management tab
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I did not do this and ended up initially doing Grub command line editing to boot and later manually editing the grub files using information I had previously learned the hard way and through google.
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I suspect that there is a way of doing this in Yast running from the Live CD but it was not obvious to me so I used the manual method that I have used before.
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Hi chrissh
i tried this exact procedure... on the exact same notebook (T400s). However, as soon as I set the
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I doubt I did anything differently since this is the first step of your procedure and my laptop is brand new!
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