MrMeowstache03

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

IIRC Microsoft mandate that Secure Boot must be enabled on any portable device that's sold running Windows.

So is there no way around this?

So I got this system from my church because they got a new computer and didn't need this one anymore and I wanted to install Linux Manjaro on it just for fun so I made the bootable USB and was going to do so. The only problem is in order to do that you have to disable secure boot from the BIOS, but everytime I disable it and save changes it re-enables for some reason. I tried updating the BIOS to the lastest version thinking that might help but it sadly didn't.

The system in question is a HP 110-210 running Windows 8.1

Do you guys know of a way I can get around this? If so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

3 minutes ago, F___M said:

OK. You can also try F12 and see if it gives you a boot menu.

Yeah that’s what I was doing before was just mashing F12 and trying to boot from the usb

4 minutes ago, F___M said:

it's booting the recovery partition.

 

When you are not concerned with the data and are reloading the OS, all disk operations (deleting partitions, creating partitions) are done during setup.  Just because you "formatted" the drive doesn't mean you wiped all the partitions.  Start setup from the USB, delete all the partitions, and click next> let it do it's thing.

 

You are going to have to go into bios.  Have the USB inserted. Shutdown the laptop, turn on the laptop and start pounding F2.  Set the USB device as first on the uefi boot order.

 

 

Okay I will try that when I get back to my laptop, thanks for the help my dude

4 minutes ago, TomvanWijnen said:

Does it also go to the automatic repair without the USB drive?

Yes it does

10 minutes ago, TomvanWijnen said:

Have you set the USB stick as a permanent first choice in the BIOS? Sometimes boot overriding doesn't work for no/some reason.

Also, could you perhaps test the stick on a different computer? Just to see if it launches the installer to detect whether the issue is the USB stick or the laptop.

Well I set the usb drive to boot first but then it just instantly goes to the automatic repair. I recently used the usb drive to install windows on my desktop so I don’t think it’s the usb’s fault.

So, I have this old Dell laptop that had windows 8.1 on it and I was tired of how freaking slow it was so I wanted to install windows 10 on it. The system was pretty much unusable so I formatted the hdd, got a bootable usb drive with the windows 10 installer on it and tried to install windows. But whenever I turn my laptop on and try to boot from the usb drive it completely ignores my choice and goes into this automatic repair mode and try’s it’s best to recover the old windows, but there isn’t anything on the hard drive so idk why it’s doing this. I’ve been googling this issue for a while now and can’t find a solution to my problem. If you guys have any tips or advice I would great appreciate it.  Also I’m somewhat new here and I wasn’t 100% sure if this is where I should post this problem, so feel free to yell at me for posting in the wrong section.

Just now, dDave64 said:

 

Out of the few models I just checked, they cannot be adapted. They are true DVI-D and lack the necessary analog pins.

 

I definitely recommend converting from DisplayPort to VGA if VGA is necessary. Adapters can be bad pretty inexpensive it on Amazon.

Thanks man, I'll try to find me one on amazon

1 minute ago, Grockle88 said:

An adapter should work perfectly. You will just need to connect it to your GPU and not your motherboard

Okie dokie thanks for the help bro

7 minutes ago, Grockle88 said:

Yes, this is perfectly normal. Just get a dvi to vga adapter

But is there something I can do to fix it? I mean if an adapter is what I need I'll happily get one

4 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Can you list your motherboard, gpu and cpu?

I have a gigabyte a320m s2h, a ryzen 3 2200g, and a RX 570

So, I just installed a new graphics card in my system, and after doing so I can only get video output from the card. I really need to output to a monitor with VGA from my motherboard and my graphics card doesn't have VGA, it only has HDMI, DVI, and couple of display ports. I have no idea why it won't work, any help would be greatly appreciated.