Multiple trouble shooting Issues

What have you tried: I have an ASUS ROG X16 laptop that came with windows 11. After several months use I began having problems with the PC crashing randomly. After much frustration being unable to find the problem I took the PC to the Geek Squad for them to look at. Unfortunately they were unable to find the problem. They replaced all the removable parts with known good ones to no avail. The CPU was not replaced as it was soldered into the motherboard. When it was returned to me I began to try looking at it myself. I was able eventually to put a clean install of windows 11 in the PC yet the crashing continued. So I decided to try loading a linux link in instead of windows. I first tried a Mint Linux link but it never made it through the process without crashing either. Then I decided to try Kali linux. It too would crash in random parts but seemed to get further into the process. So I kept trying and eventually succeeded in getting the link loaded, kali-linux-2025.1a-installer-amd64.iso. The PC still crashes about about 30-60 seconds after logging in. I am currently trying to get to the logs to see if I can find where it is crashing. My only option is to boot the system and then exit to Grub before it begins.

What is the error: As far as the error, I haven’t been able to get to some of the logs from grub. It has problems of it’s own. Some of tha commands in grub “Can’t be found” when I try them, ‘cd’, ‘sudo’, etc. even though they are listed in help. Apparently in order to load the sudo package you need to have sudo priveliges accoding to one of the messages I read in the forum so I am unsure how you get that accomplished. I was able to ‘cat’ a couple of logs, Boot and term after I figured out that I could use ‘ls’ to get to the directories instead of using ‘cd’. So I am trying to decipher them now although I have no idea how to look at the journal.

What device is this on: My PC is an ASUS ROG X16 GV601RM,

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This has nothing to do with kali, and I would suggest to remove one of the ram modules, flash MemTest86 7.5 onto an usb stick and try to run a stress test on the module in that slot. If a problem occurs - test the same module in the other slot.
If both show errors, test the other module the same way.

If there is any combination that does not let you PC crash, then this is a likely culprit. If it still crashes, either your board, cpu or psu are likely broken and you can forget about installing an operating system until this has been repaired.

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I’d try RAM first, but it also sounds like it could also be a bad GPU, those gaming laptops run hot, and can have problems with heatsinks, take the heatsink off, clean everything and put back with some good quality thermal paste. This might fix the issue, If your unlucky, the GPU may actually need to be re-soldered onto the mainboard.

Your problem is hardware related, that is why no OS is successful at installing, as soon as it starts to heat up its crashing.