[cachyos installation fail] | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 3:22 PM

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Honestly this looks like it's working to me. How long have you left it alone like this?

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Sometimes the iso can be really slow to load depending on the quality of your USB stick

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 3:25 PM

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I cant leave it alone. After waiting exactly for 57 seconds of "waiting for udev to complete device initialization" it crashes or reboots

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And its very good usbs

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 3:25 PM

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What kind of crash?

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 3:25 PM

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Everything shut down

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And reboot to the stick

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 3:26 PM

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I would try another distro iso temporarily, to see if that behaviour is replicated there

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The gentoo one would be ideal because it's quite small (quick to download and flash a USB with) and uses a different init from cachy (openrc)

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If it doesn't crap out for that then the cachy iso being a problem becomes more likely

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 3:27 PM

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Oh uh.. windows 10 works

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 3:28 PM

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blissful ore The gentoo one would be ideal because it's quite small (quick to download and fl...

On this note, ventoy is very handy for testing these things

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 3:28 PM

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But i tried bazzite and kind of same problem

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 3:28 PM

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Kind of, or exactly?

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 3:28 PM

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blissful ore On this note, ventoy is very handy for testing these things

That's what im using :p

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 3:29 PM

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blissful ore Kind of, or exactly?

Not sure but i know it fails

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 3:30 PM

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Unfortunately it just rebooting is annoying because it gives us basically nothing to work with

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No errors, no panic, and all the logs go bye-bye on a reboot

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 3:34 PM

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Is there a debugging mode ?

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 3:36 PM

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From what you have shown your machine isn't getting to userspace where you can interact with the machine

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 3:52 PM

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@blissful ore do u recommand any other distro i could try for gaming

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 3:53 PM

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One that boots? 😄

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 3:53 PM

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Yea.. 😅

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 3:54 PM

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The performance differences between distros are really overhyped imo. Most will perform within a couple percentage of others

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In my opinion you should pick the one you like best. Whichever one you like how it works, get along with the package manager etc etc

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 3:55 PM

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Oh okay thank you

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 4:39 PM

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😑

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@blissful ore

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Is that the issus

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 4:44 PM

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Which distro is this?

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 4:45 PM

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Garuda

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Im stuck idk what to do

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 4:48 PM

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lucid shell Im stuck idk what to do

Id verify the iso you downloaded with it's checksum

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Maybe it got borked during downloading

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 4:49 PM

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It would mean every iso i download gets corrupted ?

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i dont know how to verify the iso-

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 4:51 PM

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lucid shell It would mean every iso i download gets corrupted ?

That'd be quite unlikely. If they're all being weird on you then it might be your usb stick somehow

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 4:51 PM

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i will try a brand new usb

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 4:52 PM

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lucid shell i dont know how to verify the iso-

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide#Verify_signature arch instructions here but the steps apply across most distros

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 5:00 PM

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I tried with a new usb..

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blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 5:02 PM

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That looks fun!

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 5:02 PM

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🙄 not so much..

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I DONT EVEN KNOW WHATS THAT

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 5:03 PM

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That's a kernel panic, the linux equivalent of a blue screen of death. So much so that they're blue as well now

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Nothing you can do from there but hard power off

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 5:04 PM

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💀

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Tf

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That bad

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Im stuck on windows i guess

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 5:07 PM

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It's very weird that multiple distros on multiple USB sticks all fail.

Last things to check;

try a different USB port. Sometimes they go weird
try a memtest, it's possible that hardware faults are causing this.

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Sure, hit e on the entry in the grub boot menu and you can adjust the kernel cmdline for that boot

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 5:10 PM

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how do i do that

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i mean what do i add or edit

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i know how to edit but like how to i increase the loglevel -,-

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i just add loglevel=7 at the end of the linux line ?

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 5:18 PM

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Yep. There should be a line with vmlinuz and a bunch of stuff like root=UUID=blah-blah

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That's your kernel cmdline. You can add/remove stuff from that, hit F10 (I think) and boot with that cmdline

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 5:25 PM

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okay ill tell you after

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Broo

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No more kernel panic

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Just a crash

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And no more information

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just came back dw

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but umh. before i already installed those oses and it worked fine

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i rly dont know whats happening

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...

blissful ore Apr 23, 2026, 5:33 PM

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Is it powering off when that happens?

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Like, fans stop?

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 5:34 PM

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I cant really see bc even when i do a manual reboot they keep spinning

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So no

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Not power off

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Just reboot

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ikr

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i tried to unplug everything else than the stick

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and its just the same

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Should i try balena etcher ?

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dang

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cachy os/bazzite/garuda

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I will run a memtest and then ill do that

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 6:26 PM

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WHATS WRONG THEN

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T-T

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With ignore_loglevel @floral raft

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 6:53 PM

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its my second screen

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i mean

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i could try without it

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yeah i have windows 10 running fine on another ssd

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wait ill try both. or just unplug it for now

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Exact same problem..

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Cant i just skip the udev part ?

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I know bruh nothing works 🙏🏻

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I tried that Yesterday. Ai told me to but. It didn't bring me far

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Im hopeless bruh

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Ill show u something wait

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That's the launch cmd i use

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And theres amdgpu.modeset=1

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Is that an issue ?

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It is

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Its the default one

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Module_blacklist=pcspkr

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I already launched without it but still

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Oh okay

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Just .. a 3 ?

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Lemme try

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Nothing changes

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In the selection in grub theres a mode called nomodeset and it already blacklists NVIDIA drivers and NOTHING 😭

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T-T

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Nomodeset

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Still udev trying to initialize something

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Nope

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1/3

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I will try huh.. Ubuntu ?

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Idk if its great for gaming tho

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I dont rly like mint.. i mean its user friendly but it doesn't look that good

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Zorin works ?

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Okee ill try

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 8:01 PM

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Nah bro that's crazy ..

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IT DOESN'T WORK EITHER

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MAYBE IM CRAZY .. ill try again

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Well. Just to be sure

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Pikaos

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Is debian based right ?

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Everything should be good for linux 😑

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Okayy

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.....

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-_-

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So..

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I tried installing debian

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And at the network part it just rebooted

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...

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Lot of times

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Also the weird part is that i already installed those oses before

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Umh. Idk if it matters

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Theres something u might need to know

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The reason i want to change os is because. I dont know why but it happened like 3 times. When i play Fortnite like an hour. My pc crashes violently and every windows installations get corrupted. Last 3 times i also got problems installing linux but at the end it worked but this time it wont work.

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How do i run a check-up of my pc from windows

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That's what im doing

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Ill give u full specs

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Always been the same

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wait idk how to get the psu

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Its a

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Corsair

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Im trying to see T-T

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Bronze

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i cant find ..

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CX760 that's Whats written on it

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I will try to find more dw

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WARNING! The /F parameter was not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure...
520,960 file records processed.
File verification completed.
Phase duration (File record verification): 3.01 seconds.
9,722 large file records processed.
Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 0.00 milliseconds.
0 bad file records processed.
Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 0.21 milliseconds.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage...
127 reparse records processed.
769,892 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
Phase duration (Index verification): 6.49 seconds.
0 unindexed files scanned.
Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 724.97 milliseconds.
0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found directory.
Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 0.24 milliseconds.
127 reparse records processed.
Phase duration (Object ID and reparse point verification): 2.24 milliseconds.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 30.79 milliseconds.
124,467 data files processed.
Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 0.25 milliseconds.

CHKDSK is verifying the USN journal...
41,360,208 USN bytes processed.
USN journal verification completed.
Phase duration (USN journal verification): 85.89 milliseconds.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

976,067,449 KB total disk space.
71,011,580 KB in 328,115 files.
216,584 KB in 124,468 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
660,913 KB used by the system.
65,536 KB occupied by the log file.
904,178,372 KB available on disk.

4,096 bytes in each allocation unit.
244,016,862 total allocation units on disk.
226,044,593 allocation units available on disk.

Total duration: 10.36 seconds (10,364 ms).

C:\Windows\system32>

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I found it

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RPS0146 Corsair 750-Watts 80+Bronze 100–240V 10A-5A ATX Power Supply

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Id say..

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2 years

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Idk then

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I even changed the thermal paste like a month ago

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Umhh i dont think

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The only things i touched in my pc was the ram sticks and the thermal paste so..

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Should i do a bios reset

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Tell me what do i need to put like the basics for linux

floral raft Apr 23, 2026, 9:02 PM

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it might prefer bios above uefi but 2024 shoulllllld have default uefi already

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 9:04 PM

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It crashes right after this

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Ill try

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I did already dw windows is fine

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And i mean i dont rly care abt the windows. Its a new installation since everything got corrupted

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Nope not the ram

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I disabled that already

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I saw a reddit post with the same problem and he fixed it by enabling XMP like overclicking in the bios but it doesn't work for me ._ .

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Im hopeless bruh

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So hopeless that i tried to boot debian with my other pc with ethernet and still

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Yes.

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But. Umh if i disable it in windows it wont change anything in linux right ?

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Oh

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Lol

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So..

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I tried rufus.balena etcher. Ventoy. And even an Android iso flasher. And all that from. My main pc. My other pc. And my phone.

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ON MULTIPLE USBS

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Whats wrong 😭

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idk how to do

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Maybe i need to change a componement

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Yea

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Its a laptop

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I just use it as a tool

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Wym

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No completely different

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Exept the usb

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Ig

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IT ISS

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I was abt to say

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Overclicking doesn't change the psu health ?

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Same dw

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I didn't stop yesterday till 4am so...

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I mean everything is there

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True 🙏🏻

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Thank you

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Same 😭 gn

lucid shell Apr 23, 2026, 11:16 PM

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No fucking way

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I was abt to buy a new pc and then i thought no its wasting so i tried disabling wifi card and it finnaly booted cachy os

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u were right

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Oh my god

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Finnaly

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@floral raft

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THANK YOU SO MUCH

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I hope so 😔

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And thank you :)

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Well. I only used it to flash usbs not install linux directly

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Umh its normal if theres just a background and nothing else right ?

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Oh what are you using

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Isnt cachyos arch with graphical interface

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I took hyper land

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Okay goodnight

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Dang

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Ill ask an ai how to change

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You need to sleeppo

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Okay thanks gn

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