Hi I’m so sorry I don’t mean to be a bother or force anyone into unpaid support, but I’m having a full meltdown and if I can’t fix my system I’m screwed. I really thought I was doing it right and installing Pop to my second D drive to leave windows alone but somehow it completely broke Windows and I can load into that, only Pop! And unfortunately Pop! I guess isn’t really my GPU (Nvidia 1080ti I think) so on my 4k monitor everything is blown up and the wrong aspect ratio, cutting off the bottoms of windows I Pop! so I can’t even navigate this system that I’m 100% entirely unfamiliar with. I don’t even care about getting windows back at this point if I can get Pop! usable, I just need a usable machine. I’ve tried some terminal stuff I’ve read online already but nothing has worked and I’m afraid to do the purge ~nnvidia command because it said it might turn my screen black and if I can’t even get into Pop! then I’m screwed. I don’t even know what help I need but I desperately need help

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I’m too stupid for this. I don’t understand what anyone is saying, nothing is working. I don’t know what to do. I need to stay away for a few because if I don’t I’m going to kill myself. I’m very sorry and I appreciate everyone’s help, I wish I that I was smarter and I wish that I was stronger.

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  • zelifcam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    You probably overwrote windows EFI. Let’s not worry about that now. For future reference, the move for first time users is to unplug the windows drive before you install Linux.

    If you are successfully booted into Pop, then you’re fine. What guide did you use to install so I can ask you relevant questions. Seems like you just need to set the proper resolution or you’re missing gfx drivers.

    • Vespair@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Honestly I’m not even sure at this point because I’ve opened a million windows since, and admittedly I burned the Pop install to USB like a month ago but dragged my feet. I mostly just plugged it into my PC and followed along.

      I should have been more diligent, found a great tutorial, but I thought from what I’d read that Pop was supposed to be a simple install so I didn’t think I’d need it.

      I fully admit my own arrogance and ignorance; this is all my fault, I know

      • zelifcam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        It’s just a package. Nvidia dropped support for your card on the latest drivers. So I have no idea why pop was your choice or what guide you followed or what research you did before hand, but if you want to fix it I think you need to revert the driver. Here’s some Ai

        Fix NVIDIA Driver on Pop!_OS 24.04 for Pascal GPUs (GTX 10xx)

        Pop!_OS 24.04 may install nvidia-driver-580-open by default, which does not work with Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs. The open kernel module requires GSP, which is only available on Turing (RTX 20xx) and newer. You need the proprietary nvidia-driver-580 instead.

        Why is this necessary?

        NVIDIA maintains two versions of their Linux kernel driver:

        • Open kernel module (nvidia-driver-xxx-open) — requires the GPU System Processor (GSP), a hardware component only present on Turing (RTX 20xx / GTX 16xx) and newer GPUs.
        • Proprietary kernel module (nvidia-driver-xxx) — the traditional closed-source driver that supports all NVIDIA GPUs including Pascal and older.

        Pop!_OS 24.04 may default to installing the open variant for all NVIDIA GPUs, regardless of whether the hardware actually supports it. On a Pascal GPU like the GTX 1080 Ti, the open module fails to load at boot because there is no GSP on the card. This results in no GPU acceleration, nvidia-smi failing, and repeated driver probe errors in the system log.

        Additionally, as of October 2025, NVIDIA ended Game Ready Driver development for Pascal entirely. The 580 driver branch is the last to support these GPUs and will only receive quarterly security patches through October 2028. The proprietary 580 driver still works — it just won’t get performance optimizations or new game profiles going forward.

        Step 1 — Check what’s currently installed

        dpkg -l | grep nvidia-driver

        If you see nvidia-driver-580-open in the output, continue with this guide.

        Step 2 — Remove the incompatible open driver

        sudo apt remove --purge nvidia-driver-580-open nvidia-dkms-580-open

        If you also have older open variants installed, remove those too:

        sudo apt remove --purge nvidia-driver-570-open nvidia-dkms-570-open

        Step 3 — Install the proprietary driver

        sudo apt install nvidia-driver-580

        Step 4 — Rebuild initramfs

        sudo update-initramfs -u

        Step 5 — Reboot

        sudo reboot

        Step 6 — Verify after reboot

        nvidia-smi

        You should see your GTX 10xx card listed with driver version 580.xx.

        Notes

        • Game Ready Drivers for Pascal ended October 2025. Driver 580 is security-update only (through October 2028).
        • The system76-driver-nvidia metapackage may pull in the open variant again on updates. If that happens, repeat steps 2–5