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  • 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.



  • Ok, let me back up a little. Don’t worry, things will get fixed.

    The 1080ti is a Pascal card (the architecture of that series). This has implications for drivers and performance.

    First: when you installed Pop, did you select the installer with nvidia support? There are multiple installers, but the one you want is the one which explicitly says it is for nvidia.

    PS- if you don’t want to worry about Linux for the moment, or are too nervous to continue, letting windows do its fixes should recover you to where you were before the Linux install. Just make sure the Windows drive is selected for boot in BIOS. I’d say stick with it, but it’s your call.


  • You’re not stupid, you’re learning a new thing.

    Important: playing with installations and partitions is an easy way to lose data, even for the most experienced folks. If you don’t have what you need backed up off the system, focus that before anything else.

    1. Without changing the hardware configuration Windows will seek to wipe out whatever bootloader is on the primary drive at installation.

    If you don’t need dual boot, I’d say just forget about Windows.

    If you do, and reinstalling Windows is an option, do that first. Then, once complete, change your BIOS setting to boot off the Linux drive. Install it to that drive again. This should mean that the Linux bootloader picks up Windows and gives an option to boot into it (if it doesn’t show up, it can be added).

    If reinstalling Windows is not an option, then I think you need to a) let Windows do its recovery thing, which will rewrite its bootloader on the primary drive, and then b) switch the boot drive in BIOS and install Linux on the second drive. Install its bootloader on the second drive when it asks. Never change the BIOS back and you should see Linux’s bootloader give you a boot option.

    1. If it is stuck at 640x480, this sounds like a classic nvidia driver issue. Do you have on-board video? If so, you could pull the GPU and do your setup that way while figuring out the rest. If not, you may have to do some trial and error with install options to get things to play nicely with your nvidia card. Maxwell/Pascal cards like yours are especially challenging on Linux, in my experience.

  • Nvidia is a bit notorious on Linux for being harder to set up. That said, Pop is a good choice and should mostly get things right.

    It sounds like you have 2 issues:

    1. Bootloader

    2. Pop not getting resolution right

    Both are certainly fixable, but 1 might seem more daunting.

    1: Windows’ bootloader tends not to play nice with Linux. If you want to dual-boot (have both systems available), then the typical advice is to set up Windows first with only 1 drive plugged in. Then install your second drive, put Linux on it, and put the bootloader on the second drive. Then in BIOS, select drive 2 as your boot volume. It is easier to get the Linux bootloader to boot Windows than vice versa.

    2: if you hit the Windows key, you should get the Pop launcher. Type “settings” and hit enter. Go to the Display tab and then change your resolution to something lower than now. You’ll have to move windows around to get where you need – use alt+drag to do that without the title bar visible.