So I received my laptop this afternoon and had it assembled in 25 minutes. I put the USB-A port in slot 4 because it was noted as one of the two slots that wouldn’t result in high power consumption on Ryzen. I built the USB key based on the instructions about using Rufus, plugged it into the USB-A port, powered on the laptop and it wasn’t detected…
I grabbed a USB-A to USB-C adapter I happened to have handy, plugged it into the USB-C port in Slot 1, rebooted and it was detected immediately.
Did I miss something? Why can’t you boot off a Type A port?