Recent content by dolphinjones

Thanks Wizard, I'm not sure which BIOS I'm running. I'm out of town for the weekend but I'd be happy to check when I get back. Believe it's UEFI though. Right now I'm planning to leave windows installed as a dual boot for the next month or two to make sure everything goes smooth. But once I feel...

final update: after just a few hours of using linux / pop, feel I have found EXACTLY the OS I have been looking for. It solves the long list of gripes that I have had with microsoft for years now, which seemed to be getting worse and worse to the point I felt it necessary to ditch and move to...

Typing this from a freshly installed pop os. Thanks again everyone, your guys support and ideas kept me eager to keep trying new things. Super stoked right now.

GOT IT!! Finally figured out what was going on. Apparently there was a version of this laptop that shipped with a wd black ssd that supposedly has major compatibility issues with linux. had to adjust the boot setting to: nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=5500 I tried it with linux mint and I...

Hey I just tried MX-AHS again, on a different drive, and still no luck. It freezes while 'running scripts,' before reaching the live boot. MX (non-ahs) is still the only distro that gets me to a live environment (freezing only during install). Also tried zorin-lite, with no luck as well. Wonder...

Hey brick, thanks for the suggestions, but unfortunately I already gave MX ahs a go right after I wasn't able to get standard MX working. The drive I'm using is relatively new, and I've already given 3 drives a go (though not specifically with MX), just in case. Also already have safe boot and...

Sweet, well its good to know thats not a point of conflict. I downloaded the deb file, although I do not know how to make use of it. Should I try booting MX and downloading the file / getting the amd installer package, or is there more to it than that? Or is there a way to try it with Ubuntu and...

Thanks dude, really appreciate all your (and everyones) input. It's been fun trying to crack this puzzle.

So when I tried to install nvidia drivers it did not recognize an nvidia card, which I suppose is for the best. I did get to the stable repos but I'm brand new to linux and I wasn't able to figure out how to install the speicific drivers for for the 560x. Was fun to poke around for a bit through...

Will give it a shot now, but isn't that odd to do with an amd gpu?

Alright, so for whatever reason I seem to be able to stay in the live version of MX as long as I need now as long as I don't run the installer. I don't know what happened to cause this, but I did disable cpu virtualization. When I put drivers into the menu, a tab popped up saying install...

Hey so just gave it a go on MX and my log files seemed to be a normal size. It did stay unfrozen in the live environment for quite a while though. Then when I clicked the installer it froze after 20 or so seconds at the 'gathering info' phase. Will boot it up again and check the drivers now.

Ok so I just tried booting using noapic and wasn't able to get any new results. I also tried acpi=off which atleast got rid of the acpi error messages, but still led to freeze. also tried nomodeset and nouveau.modeset=0 as well as nouveau.noaccel=1 and amdgpu.exp_hw_support=1, all of which...

Thanks KG, will give it a shot and report back

So I've explored the BIOS menu pretty thoroughly and I can't seem to find a way to disable ACPI, unless I'm missing something. I will quadruple check again just in case though. The only place in the BIOS menu that I see any sort of UEFI setting is enabling UEFI Network Stack, but I'm guessing...