polar karma
After rebooting to linux from my dual-booted Windows, my arch install is stuck in a reboot loop.
The first sign is that I noticed my wifi adapter stoped working, both in Windows and Linux. When I attempt to boot to arch, I get the following error. It stays on for a little while, and then my system boots back up, only to reboot 20 seconds-ish later. The error message is in the post image
drowsy swallow
Is everything fast-startup and hibernation related disabled in windows?
this stuff
That can reserve hardware if you "shut down" windows
polar karma
yea I disabled it
but I forgot to mention
my pc doesnt even pass the post test anymore
polar karma
I declare that to be not good!
i mean i thought about running a memtest but i cant even flash an iso anymore
drowsy swallow
time for a benchtest I'd say
polar karma
uhh I don't really know what that is
drowsy swallow
Your error mentions the CPU which is sorta kinda very not good imo
polar karma
lolll yea I know
I mean it really came out of nowhere
I was playing minecraft on windows then I reboot to arch and it just breaks instantly
drowsy swallow
uhh I don't really know what that is
Remove everything from the machine, including the motherboard, and test it on a bench. Adding one component at a time until it hangs
polar karma
but wait how is it supposed to boot without all the components?
do I just see if it turns on?
drowsy swallow
With any luck your mobo has debug LEDs or will at least beep at you
drowsy swallow
do I just see if it turns on?
Yep, to find out what is stopping the POST
polar karma
wait I can still boot to windows without wifi let me try to reboot and fail the post
polar karma
Yep, to find out what is stopping the POST
wait the motherboard can still output video even without the gpu?
drowsy swallow
If it has a video out of its own, sure. Most modern boards do
But that's not strictly necessary, if it has debug LEDs or post beeps to inform you whats up. Your mobo manual should say
Most motherboards will do two long beeps if there's no video out
polar karma
yea I'm trying to reboot to arch rn but it's obviously taking a while
polar karma
Most motherboards will do two long beeps if there's no video out
alr I know my motherboard has LEDs i'll check them
it's not failing post anymore???
but I'm still stuck in that reboot loop
definitely switching to nixos after this :(
@drowsy swallow alright I'm not failing post anymore but I'm still in that error cycle
drowsy swallow
definitely switching to nixos after this :(
I suspect any linux would encounter this
On that topic, do you have any live isos around you can try? Just to exclude that possibility
polar karma
unfortunately i don't even have that
I'm gonna have to try to find some pc so I can flash an iso
polar karma
@drowsy swallow I tried booting off of a Ubuntu live iso but I encountered the same errors
sorry for pinging but at this point I don't really know what to do?
polar karma
I mean except for wifi which doesnt work both on linux and windows yea pretty much
it gets really slow at startup but after a few seconds its fine
drowsy swallow
For any sort of hardware trouble it's always worth checking if your machine has any bios updates
But I have no clue why it would just randomly start happening
Or why windows works fine enough while no linux is happy
polar karma
yea I'll try to check for any bios updates
it's true that it has been a while that I've done an update
polar karma
@drowsy swallow sorry to bother you AGAIN lol but I've updated my bios and reflashed my usb with ubuntu and it still doesn't work
might even say it works even worse now because my arch partition isn't even detected by grub
not sure if you've got any other ideas to guide me?
drowsy swallow
Identical errors?
polar karma
not really getting an error it's just stuck in a boot loop
and sometimes
yea I do get the error that pops up
but if I don't touch it it just keeps rebooting indefinetly
drowsy swallow
All seems quite weird to me