Recent content by commongoer

It is strange indeed. This was either a mistake on my part during tweaking that caused a firmware/BIOS issue, or a very very coincidentally timed firmware bug that was bound to happen anyway. Either way, hopefully if anything this works as a cautionary tale, I'm sure I'm not the only one out...

Welp, final update. After resetting the BIOS, I plugged my drives back in, made a small partition and installed Windows 10. Downloaded NVidias firmware updater, applied the update, and that got me back to having DP functionality, but not during the boot process only on login. I then thought to...

Okay, so I just gave this a shot: Unplugged, pressed the power button a dozen times, unplugged both RAM sticks. Plugged one back in, moved the GPU down one PCIe slot. Turned on power, nothing. Repeated the process but switched RAM sticks, again, nothing. Then I decided, for the heck of it, to...

Okay I'll give this a try after work today. Thanks, not super experienced with hardware issues such as this

Did try this, unfortunately no change. Still have a VGA light on

Specs: Asus TUF X570 Plus WiFi MOBO AMD Ryzen 7 5800x NVidia GTX1080 (latest drivers) Monitor connected via display port Latest standard kernel I'm in over my head. Bottom line is, I was taking some of the steps listed on the "Improving Performance" and "Gaming" pages on the Arch Wiki, and it...