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Thanks for the suggestions everybody. I just ended up installing slackware. The only graphical live type installation interface i could get to run was pop os and it was so slow it was impossible to get through the install.
Idk why all the graphical alternatives didnt work, something with the new ...

I cant boot the live usb, but thats a great idea, thanks.

Windows system info churns out half a megabyte of text, is it useful?

Ok so i took the 3070ti out and tried integrated graphics, same thing. Tried disabling tpm (secure boot has been disabled all along, but im grasping at straws here) same thing with tpm disabled, black screen.

Along the way i noticed a grub kernel option that i didnt see before "noxorg" looking at ...

Anybody have any ideas at all?
I have tried passing the vcard detection on and vcard menu options to the kernel and the same thing happens.
Also tried with slackware and void, same thing.

I built a computer yesterday. Msi b650 am5 chipset, 7800x3d, integrated graphics, geforce 3070ti.

The first time i tried to boot from the usb drive and install i pressed enter at the splash screen for the kernel to load and went to a screen that said 2 video options were detected, they were ...

Attempting to upgrade from 21 using these instructions:https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/upgrading-from-mx-21-to-mx-23-without-reinstalling/

The upgrade stopped at one point and i ran "apt --fix-broken-install" as suggested and it finished without further problems.

Rebooted and tty1 was broken with ...

The first method worked nicely thank you.
Logging in as a user and trying the second method returned this:

"[sudo] password for $USER:
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display localhost:11.0
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform ...

Thanks, i appreciate the quick reply. I was thinking something like that but was afraid that it might lead to trouble with the installer not using official mx linux repos.

MX-packageinstaller wont start as root and if i run it as a user on the remote machine the authentication window cant be drawn.
If i run synaptic as root, X forwarding from the remote machine, it lists no upgrades.

I know the remote machine needs upgrades to be current because im running an MX ...