Huh... I didn't know that. The reason I have CSM enabled is because my BIOS suggested it first thing on first boot when I installed a legacy GPU and I've had it on since. I thought it needed to be on for the GPU to work but I guess I'll try disabling it and report back. The boot drive is GPT so I doubt it's an MBR install.@Leek wrote:CSM is an emulator built into a modern bios specifically to allow Microsoft users to roll back to Windows 7 from Windows 8, 8.1 and the early builds of Win 10. It was never intended to allow MBR installs by other operating systems. People who do try this anyway can expect increasingly buggy performance from their machines.It may be worth noting I have CSM (legacy hardware support mode) enabled in my BIOS because of a legacy GPU, but this wasn't an issue before.
I asked if you could boot into a live session because it's a simple test to see if the bios upgrade had bricked your motherboard.
I'm really hoping to avoid going that far. I've spent a lot of time getting some real niche things to work and I don't see myself doing all of that work all over again. If I knew exactly what's wrong here perhaps I could do a clean install of 21.3, copy whatever files I need from that working install, then roll back my old install and replace the troublesome files. That's if I knew what part of the system is causing this problem in the first placeThe best advice I can give you is to do a new, clean UEFI intstall of MX 23.4.
It's ironic that this is happening across two different BIOS versions on the same board considering that in the past I've moved a MX install from one machine to one that's 10 years older and it booted and ran as if nothing had happened
I'd thought the OS being married to the hardware was a thing of the past but I guess not entirelyStatistics: Posted by Leek — Tue Dec 31, 2024 8:19 pm