NavyLCDR's solution worked!

What a wonderful new year. Seems there really was some issue with getting it to do stuff off of usb, and once it was on a partition on the system drive everything was...

also, just got access to another windows machine and tried making the drive using rufus, wouldn't even boot from it. Odd stuff.

I did actually originally try using a sandisk flash drive, however I have since tried using several different brands of drives, using both the usb 2 and 3 ports. I have also tried using clean drive...

OK I know it's against forum etiquette to bump posts but this is rather ridiculous. None of the testable hardware is malfunctioning and not a single person can even suggest a lead past "make sure the...

So memory and drive are fine, also, can't use rufus because... ya know... I don't have a windows pc atm (only linux and osx)

No one has any idea what the hell might be happening?

This issue appears both when installing on an already existent partition and when installing on a drive that was just formatted into one partition. Have not tried rufus yet but judjing by the...

I've been trying to get windows installed again on my laptop after I formatted the disk to start over. I created a usb installer using their special utility and ran it. I have also attempted to...

Excellent information lehnerus! I do in fact have ubuntu 16.04 installed on both machines. Now that you mention it this issue only started happening when I installed 16.04 (clean install) I'll get...

By the way, just set up a new desktop... guess what happens? time gets offset once again.

Same issue with attempting to update the time and getting the error message that the operation timed out....

Also I just took a look at the time in bios and it was also correct.

I'm... not sure if you're serious... I'll clarify the wording. "foo" is the universal space filling "variable" so to speak when it comes to software, when the actual contents of whatever "foo" is...

Every boot my computer's clock is 7 hours fast.
The time zone is correctly set to UTC -08:00
I have set it to synchronize with time.windows.com as well as time.nist.com, to similar results.

When...

IDK if we're allowed to bump threads but... bump?

I own a thinkpad yoga 14 with the active pen digitizer. One really annoying thing that seems to have popped up when I switched to 10 makes it nearly impossible to use the pen.

Essentially, the pen...