Now, after having booted Windows 10 and played “Spellforce 3” I powered off the computer to remember I forgot something and powered it on again.
Now I’m not even getting a BIOS screen anymore. But I’m getting the same blue dots.
But since Linux (arch) is the default OS in systemd-boot, which is switched to,
Linux boots, however it doesn’t boot into Cinnamon but it seems to fail and I get thrown back to sddm @1920x1080, then I enter my password and cinnamon loads as expected at 3840x2160.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZwaIgPUg0k0r1Rh4Ftck6FGROw40jNrZ
I believe my BIOS just died partially or some malicious program wrote some config vars to UEFI, since I dual-boot I have secure-boot off.
I’ve then switched from DP to HDMI without a positive result.
I’ve contacted Amazon, where I bought the GA-X170-EXTREME-ECC motherboard, which should now be the 2nd replacement in 13 months. 1st way in May 2017 and I bought it in October 2016. Gigabyte has shit quality mainboards and their support is so bad that they’re unable to grasp that a motherboard that has ECC in it, and it’s selling point is it supporting ECC RAM and when reading the sales page’s spec it says explicitly that it supports ECC RAM, when this support is asked which ECC RAM modules it supports they respond with “this board doesn’t support ECC RAM”…
The amount of facepalm that was caused by this response is not measurable.
I don’t know how those people even got the job. Not only did it take a week for them to respond, but they respond with this.
Anyhow, quality Gigabyte service. Last time I ever bought a Gigabyte product. I’ve had nothing but problems in the recent years, but hope dies last. They used to make great products, now they don’t. USB being broken is now the 2nd time too. Freaking failsauce company.
Anyhow enough of me ranting.
But hey maybe nvidia is the bad boy here (asus strix gaming 1080 the middle one and it was replaced once too), however I can’t try because I’m not getting into the BIOS, because black screen.
Oh btw I’ve turned off “serial support” because there is no physical connector, maybe this broke EFIFB? I also turned on ERP (aka. power down completely). Fast boot is off.
and those are all available efi vars
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4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f-LoaderEntrySelected
4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f-LoaderTimeMenuUSec
4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f-LoaderImageIdentifier
4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f-LoaderDevicePartUUID
4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f-LoaderFirmwareType
4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f-LoaderFirmwareInfo
4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f-LoaderInfo
4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f-LoaderTimeInitUSec
1b838190-4625-4ead-abc9-cd5e6af18fe0-HiiDB
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-BootCurrent
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-PlatformLangCodes
b08f97ff-e6e8-4193-a997-5e9e9b0adb32-CpuSetupVolatileData
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ErrOutDev
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-BootOptionSupport
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConInDev
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConOutDev
9cb2e73f-7325-40f4-a484-659bb344c3cd-SOFTWAREGUARDSTATUS
01368881-c4ad-4b1d-b631-d57a8ec8db6b-MeVS
dd41adf5-4368-4654-b1ca-46a6b98d9e84-EasyHealthAddress
dd41adf5-4368-4654-b1ca-46a6b98d9e84-EasyVoltageAddress
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-OsIndicationsSupported
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01368881-c4ad-4b1d-b631-d57a8ec8db6b-FPDT_Volatile
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8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-dbxDefault
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-VendorKeys
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-SignatureSupport
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-SecureBoot
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-SetupMode
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-DeployedMode
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-AuditMode
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7b59104a-c00d-4158-87ff-f04d6396a915-SecureBootSetup
d1405d16-7afc-4695-bb12-41459d3695a2-NetworkStackVar
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5e9a565f-cdc0-413b-ad13-1fe8713ffdcd-PcieSataModVar
90d93e09-4e91-4b3d-8c77-c82ff10e3c81-CpuSmm
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-PlatformLang
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-Boot0003
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ec87d643-eba4-4bb5-a1e5-3f3e36b20da9-UsbSupport
4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f-LoaderConfigTimeout
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8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-OsIndications
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-Boot0008
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-Boot0007
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8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-BootOrder
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-Boot0001
b540a530-6978-4da7-91cb-7207d764d262-FastBootOption
c811fa38-42c8-4579-a9bb-60e94eddfb34-AMITSESetup
ec87d643-eba4-4bb5-a1e5-3f3e36b20da9-SetupCpuFeatures
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ba57e015-65b3-4c3c-b274-659192f699e3-BugCheckCode
ba57e015-65b3-4c3c-b274-659192f699e3-BugCheckProgress
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-Boot0000
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4b3082a3-80c6-4d7e-9cd0-583917265df1-MaximumTableSize
4b3082a3-80c6-4d7e-9cd0-583917265df1-SmbiosScratchBuffer
4b3082a3-80c6-4d7e-9cd0-583917265df1-SmbiosV3EntryPointTable
4b3082a3-80c6-4d7e-9cd0-583917265df1-SmbiosEntryPointTable
81c76078-bfde-4368-9790-570914c01a65-SetUpdateCountVar
73dad563-8f27-42af-918f-8651eb0a93ef-Ep
46fe2754-75ed-40db-a395-032d70994457-CoolConCRC
46fe2754-75ed-40db-a395-032d70994457-CoolConsole
5432122d-d034-49d2-a6de-65a829eb4c74-MeSetupStorage
2a64d079-aceb-4ad9-afd5-252e35ba994a-EasyTuneSetupAddress
ec87d643-eba4-4bb5-a1e5-3f3e36b20da9-AdvMitAttrib
ec87d643-eba4-4bb5-a1e5-3f3e36b20da9-MemMitAttrib
ec87d643-eba4-4bb5-a1e5-3f3e36b20da9-ProcMitAttrib
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-Boot0002
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8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ErrOut
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConIn
8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-ConOut
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8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-Timeout
c60aa7f6-e8d6-4956-8ba1-fe26298f5e87-EPCBIOS
ba1d893b-803e-4b26-a3de-585703ff7bd6-TbtHRStatusVar
4b3082a3-80c6-4d7e-9cd0-583917265df1-WriteOnceStatus
eda41d22-7729-5b91-b3ee-ba619921cefa-IntUcode
074e1e48-8132-47a1-8c2c-3f14ad9a66dc-AmiEntryS3Addr
4da4f952-2516-4d06-8975-65036403a8c7-RstOptaneConfig
35c6ccb8-e380-41ef-5ba7-92850d9a5a0a-PREBOOT CLOCK DATA
ec87d643-eba4-4bb5-a1e5-3f3e36b20da9-Setup
98744b1b-d66d-41fd-8e89-80adbd668140-FlexIoData
7d3dceee-cbce-4ea7-8709-6e552f1edbde-TpmServFlags
01368881-c4ad-4b1d-b631-d57a8ec8db6b-MonotonicCounter
97e8965f-c761-4f48-b6e4-9ffa9cb2a2d6-DeploymentModeNv
4599d26f-1a11-49b8-b91f-858745cff824-StdDefaults
the 4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f-* parts are probably systemd-boot attribs.