So this is a weird one, I’ll just say what I did then provide a list of symptoms. I updated the bios on my ‘Gigabyte B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7’ motherboard from vF2 to VF12b; I did this by formatting a USB to FAT32, plugging it into the bios designated USB port, turning off the PC, waiting 30 seconds, then pressing the flash button and not touching it until it finished doing its thing and booted up of its own accord.

The results:

  • The card powers on.
  • The PC still posts and otherwise works, notable because my screen is plugged directly into the GPU.
  • ‘Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit’ system information can detect the GPU.
  • Other Linux Applets can not detect the GPU.
  • The motherboards BIOS somehow does not seem to detect the GPU.
  • No software, neither productivity applications nor games, can detect the GPU.

Solution
Disabling secure boot fixed it.

  • 11111one11111English
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    5 days ago

    Does your mobo have a hdmi input? Think its pretty standard from what ive seen. Also, what cpu? Does it have integrated graphics?

    I had similar issues swapping to linux mint. I wanna say it was something to do with Mint booting before gpu is able to fire up the gpu’s driver.

    Im honestly supper new to linux and i know ill get tar and feathered for saying it but i would be up shits creek if i wasnt able to get cli commands and scripts from claude.