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vivid basin Nov 21, 2025, 2:10 PM

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are you on windows or linux installer right now?

stiff gorge Nov 21, 2025, 2:11 PM

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right now i just got back on windows

vivid basin Nov 21, 2025, 2:11 PM

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run msinfo32 and share a picture please

stiff gorge Nov 21, 2025, 2:11 PM

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this?

vivid basin Nov 21, 2025, 2:11 PM

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yez

stiff gorge Nov 21, 2025, 2:11 PM

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ive heard something about bios mode

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idk tho

vivid basin Nov 21, 2025, 2:12 PM

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BIOS mode = UEFI, that's correct

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can you hold SHIFT, then press Reboot, then select to boot from a device and your USB drive?

stiff gorge Nov 21, 2025, 2:13 PM

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so i just boot into the mint usb

vivid basin Nov 21, 2025, 2:13 PM

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yes, share a pic of the selection screen if possible also

stiff gorge Nov 21, 2025, 2:13 PM

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alr

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I've got boot manager, the disk the boot manager is on, then UEFI: (USB name) and USB: (USB name)

vivid basin Nov 21, 2025, 2:15 PM

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choose UEFI: USB name

stiff gorge Nov 21, 2025, 2:15 PM

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Alright

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Im in grub

vivid basin Nov 21, 2025, 2:15 PM

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I assume you selected just USB before, thats why it refused to work

vivid basin Nov 21, 2025, 2:15 PM

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stiff gorge Im in grub

proceed as normal and it should show up

stiff gorge Nov 21, 2025, 2:15 PM

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Okay

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Yep I see it, but j have another problem

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Every couple of seconds/minutes, the screen goes black for 1-3 seconds

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AMD gpu

young blaze Nov 21, 2025, 2:23 PM

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Open the terminal and type

mokutil --sb-state ; inxi -Gxxx

stiff gorge Nov 21, 2025, 2:25 PM

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Now what?

vivid basin Nov 21, 2025, 2:25 PM

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stiff gorge Now what?

share the output here

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FYI, AMD uses free drivers, so secureboot enabled is not an issue here

stiff gorge Nov 21, 2025, 2:26 PM

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young blaze Nov 21, 2025, 2:27 PM

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Also it might be a good idea to go back to windows, open command prompt as admin and type

powercfg -h off

at some point

stiff gorge Nov 21, 2025, 2:27 PM

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What's that for

young blaze Nov 21, 2025, 2:28 PM

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it disables hibernation in windows, but also disables fast startup, that's known to cause problems in other OSes. GPU looks fine though

stiff gorge Nov 21, 2025, 2:29 PM

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I always turn Fast startup off any time I use windows

young blaze Nov 21, 2025, 2:30 PM

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Then you should be good

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Monitor going black occasionally might be fixed after you run a system update, after installing

stiff gorge Nov 21, 2025, 2:31 PM

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I selected the allocated system space for Linux and windows, how long is it gonna load?

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young blaze Nov 21, 2025, 2:33 PM

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it might take a while if it's an HDD, depending on how full it was

stiff gorge Nov 21, 2025, 2:33 PM

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Ssd only like 150gb full

young blaze Nov 21, 2025, 2:34 PM

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it'll be done eventually

#no "install alongside windows" option