around an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D for X-Plane 12, so I downloaded a Windows
recovery image from Lenovo to burn to a USB stick in case any potential
buyer wants Windows?
It took about 10 minutes to download the image and TWO hours to burn
it to a 32Gb stick!
When it was done I plugged it into this Lenovo machine to see if it would
start! Big mistake, it started just fine and I exited at the first install
option (language) and rebooted.
My system booted into maintenance mode! No desktop in sight!
I pulled out a live Linux stick and booted into it but lost video output.
The system was trying to display from the built-in video and not the AMD
card I bought recently!
Some of my BIOS settings were changed and probably corrupt so I flashed
the BIOS again with a live BIOS ISO image I had already from Lenovo!
Two of my disk partitions were now owned by root! I fixed that with
the live image and rebooted back to Neon!
It was 1C outside but I was sweating!
Never boot a Windows disk unless you intend to use it!
