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I tried to install Pop! and broke my system and really really need help if anyone is willing (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Vespair@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.world

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Hi I'm so sorry I don't mean to be a bother or force anyone into unpaid support, but I'm having a full meltdown and if I can't fix my system I'm screwed. I really thought I was doing it right and installing Pop to my second D drive to leave windows alone but somehow it completely broke Windows and I can load into that, only Pop! And unfortunately Pop! I guess isn't really my GPU (Nvidia 1080ti I think) so on my 4k monitor everything is blown up and the wrong aspect ratio, cutting off the bottoms of windows I Pop! so I can't even navigate this system that I'm 100% entirely unfamiliar with. I don't even care about getting windows back at this point if I can get Pop! usable, I just need a usable machine. I've tried some terminal stuff I've read online already but nothing has worked and I'm afraid to do the purge ~nnvidia command because it said it might turn my screen black and if I can't even get into Pop! then I'm screwed. I don't even know what help I need but I desperately need help

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I'm too stupid for this. I don't understand what anyone is saying, nothing is working. I don't know what to do. I need to stay away for a few because if I don't I'm going to kill myself. I'm very sorry and I appreciate everyone's help, I wish I that I was smarter and I wish that I was stronger.

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[–] circuitfarmer 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I edited my comment above because there might be something else on the Linux side. Pop 24.04 is explicitly incompatible with Pascal cards, and System76 do not make old builds explicitly available. I'm not sure if 22.04 was compatible with Pascal either, so that may be your entire issue with drivers on the Linux side. From what I can tell, the nvidia package itself requires a 16xx series card or newer.

Edit: Yes, it looks like nvidia have dropped support for Pascal in their official Linux driver just 2 months ago. And that's why Linux people tend to hate nvidia. :)

Yes. It doesn’t give me the windows repair if I have the Pop installed drive set as the boot drive, it just goes into Pop

This also means that the Linux bootloader was already on the second drive, and the bootloader on the first one should not have been overwritten. So it isn't clear what happened to Windows unless there were other runs of the Linux installer which had the bootloader location set improperly.

If it were me, I'd start experimenting with restoring the system to the original configuration entirely (i.e. wipe the second drive so it's blank, and see if the Windows repair process goes differently). I wonder if Windows cannot recognize (or won't recognize) what is on drive 2, and instead of telling you that, it just errors out.