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Eadwine Rose wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:25 am @AltairIV

What is going on, we cannot mind read.

AltairIV wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:34 am I had an issue which needed a re-boot so I couldn't post the explanation I was writing for the second post. 7 minutes.

Eadwine Rose wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:39 am Posting just a QSI is lacking, and I don't know that you are going to edit or something. If you think me telling you that I cannot mind read is rude, then that is not a me problem, because I was just stating a fact. Again with the editing being done. I cannot possibly know that.

rokytnji.1 wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:37 am She asked Legit question. It is you being rude.

siamhie wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:48 am

AltairIV wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:34 am I had an issue which needed a re-boot so I couldn't post the explanation I was writing for the second post. 7 minutes.

Post the issue you are having with your second screen please.

Eadwine Rose wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:01 am You are getting the same treatment everyone else is getting here.

Eadwine Rose wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:13 am search.php?keywords=forum+rules+%28plea ... mit=Search

Here you go.

AltairIV wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:55 am

Eadwine Rose wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:39 am Posting just a QSI is lacking, and I don't know that you are going to edit or something. If you think me telling you that I cannot mind read is rude, then that is not a me problem, because I was just stating a fact. Again with the editing being done. I cannot possibly know that.

You waited a total of about 5 minutes before implying that I was expecting mind reading. It WAS rude and impatient.
Yesterday you accused me of not having read the rules as the reason I hadn't posted the QSI....I simply forgot, today I posted the QSI in line with your expectations and had intended to post an immediate 2nd post but I wasn't fast enough for you.
Clearly you have a problem with me. Now apparently I am "lacking".
So you have so far accused me of not having read the rules, expecting others to be mind readers and that I am lacking.
And you think your approach isn't rude; wow.
Whatever you like to call it, your are hounding me...please stop it and give a person a break. Your role is not to bully people and you ARE bullying me.

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AltairIV wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:04 am

siamhie wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:48 am

AltairIV wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:34 am I had an issue which needed a re-boot so I couldn't post the explanation I was writing for the second post. 7 minutes.

Post the issue you are having with your second screen please.

Whilst using live USB I was able to have the laptop monitor disabled, the Dell monitor (via displayport cable) as primary monitor with the tv as second monitor (via HDMI).
The laptop monitor was able to be off and the other two screens showed the same. Since installing into hard drive, if the laptop screen is off/disabled, the tv only shows the MX logo.
If I enable mirroring, all three are on and showing the same but I don't want the laptop screen on.
Plus the cursor in mirroring is now huge.

siamhie wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:19 am
You're new to this forum, so here's the link to the Rules of these forums. Everyone has to abide by them. No-one gets singled out.

Do not post topics that relate to different genders, race, color, politics or religion. Discussion of these topics can cause problems and quickly degenerate into arguments.
Do not use swear words, whether directly or masked with other characters.
Keep personal problems off the forums. Let's try to keep peace among the community and for visitors.
Before submitting a post, pause and consider KNIT. Is the post Kind. Necessary, Informed, True.

j2mcgreg wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:23 am @AltairIV

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Boot Mode: BIOS (legacy, CSM, MBR)

Your computer has a UEFI bios (I checked) yet you have chosen (easy beginner mistake) to do a legacy (CSM, MBR) install. THE CSM module within the UEFI bios was created specifically to allow users to roll back to Windows 7 from Win 8, 8.1, and the early builds of Win 10. It should not be used with Linux and users can expect erratic behaviour when they do just that. The reason is that the bios will be looking for the Windows 7 hooks and will try any other connection when they are absent. Sometimes it gets them right but more often it gets them wrong. My advice is to back up your data, and reinstall, but this time be sure to configure your USB drive creation tool (Rufus on Windows, Ventoy or or own Live USB Maker) to use GPT partitioning.

siamhie wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:22 am

AltairIV wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:04 am

siamhie wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:48 am

Post the issue you are having with your second screen please.

Whilst using live USB I was able to have the laptop monitor disabled, the Dell monitor (via displayport cable) as primary monitor with the tv as second monitor (via HDMI).
The laptop monitor was able to be off and the other two screens showed the same. Since installing into hard drive, if the laptop screen is off/disabled, the tv only shows the MX logo.
If I enable mirroring, all three are on and showing the same but I don't want the laptop screen on.
Plus the cursor in mirroring is now huge.

I don't run a multi monitor setup but which monitor is set to the default?

When installing from the live USB to hard drive, I don't recall any BIOS options.
When creating the live USB I couldn't use Rufus or Balena as they no longer support Win 7 and old versions wouldn't work so I downloaded MX to Win 7, burnt it to DVD the used the MX Live USB maker. Again there were no BIOS options presented.
Rather than a partition, I put MX on a separate SSD to the Win 7 SSD as I have two slots. If UEFI is enabled on this computer, Win 7 can't open. I think the issue is that the Win was not installed as EUFI.
Where I go from here I'm not sure.
Thanks

j2mcgreg wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:56 am @AltairIV wrote:

When installing from the live USB to hard drive, I don't recall any BIOS options.
When creating the live USB I couldn't use Rufus or Balena as they no longer support Win 7 and old versions wouldn't work so I downloaded MX to Win 7, burnt it to DVD the used the MX Live USB maker. Again there were no BIOS options presented.
Rather than a partition, I put MX on a separate SSD to the Win 7 SSD as I have two slots. If UEFI is enabled on this computer, Win 7 can't open. I think the issue is that the Win was not installed as EUFI.
Where I go from here I'm not sure.
Thanks

On UEFI capable computers, you often have to set an Administrators' password before advanced features like changing the boot order or configuring USB ports etc become available/

AltairIV wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:32 am

siamhie wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:19 am
You're new to this forum, so here's the link to the Rules of these forums. Everyone has to abide by them. No-one gets singled out.

Do not post topics that relate to different genders, race, color, politics or religion. Discussion of these topics can cause problems and quickly degenerate into arguments.
Do not use swear words, whether directly or masked with other characters.
Keep personal problems off the forums. Let's try to keep peace among the community and for visitors.
Before submitting a post, pause and consider KNIT. Is the post Kind. Necessary, Informed, True.

I did none of the things which you have quoted.
I don't have any problem with forum rules or with polite enforcement of those rules.....rude enforcement of those rules with personal attacks leveled against me are unnecessary and are highly likely to create exactly the situation which we now have and which the rules explicitly try to avoid. In this scenario it was not me who broke the rules but the admin.
Now I have asked that we let this issue go and move on to dealing with the technical issue. It seems that you want to perpetuate this argument, which is counter-productive.

If you have a problem with a mod or another community member here, first try to resolve it privately (through pm's or emails) yourself

siamhie wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 11:20 am

AltairIV wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:32 am

siamhie wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:19 am
You're new to this forum, so here's the link to the Rules of these forums. Everyone has to abide by them. No-one gets singled out.

I did none of the things which you have quoted.
I don't have any problem with forum rules or with polite enforcement of those rules.....rude enforcement of those rules with personal attacks leveled against me are unnecessary and are highly likely to create exactly the situation which we now have and which the rules explicitly try to avoid. In this scenario it was not me who broke the rules but the admin.
Now I have asked that we let this issue go and move on to dealing with the technical issue. It seems that you want to perpetuate this argument, which is counter-productive.

You haven't read the rules or else you would have seen this stated in the first paragraph. I only quoted some of them. "Keep personal problems off the forums."

If you have a problem with a mod or another community member here, first try to resolve it privately (through pm's or emails) yourself

Personal bickering disrupts the flow of the topic. If this keeps up, this thread will get locked.

AltairIV wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 11:30 am

siamhie wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 11:20 am

AltairIV wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:32 am



I did none of the things which you have quoted.
I don't have any problem with forum rules or with polite enforcement of those rules.....rude enforcement of those rules with personal attacks leveled against me are unnecessary and are highly likely to create exactly the situation which we now have and which the rules explicitly try to avoid. In this scenario it was not me who broke the rules but the admin.
Now I have asked that we let this issue go and move on to dealing with the technical issue. It seems that you want to perpetuate this argument, which is counter-productive.

You haven't read the rules or else you would have seen this stated in the first paragraph. I only quoted some of them. "Keep personal problems off the forums."

If you have a problem with a mod or another community member here, first try to resolve it privately (through pm's or emails) yourself

Personal bickering disrupts the flow of the topic. If this keeps up, this thread will get locked.

So now you are saying this is all my fault due to "personal problems" that can only be construed as a personal attack and you just broke the rules. I think the personal problems you are looking for are elsewhere. If people can't enforce rules without being rude or making personal attacks and can't bring themselves to drop this argument in favour of not disrupting the flow of the topic, which you just did again, they need to look to themselves. Go ahead lock the topic, it just demonstrates pettiness over a desire to see technical issues solved, which I keep trying to do and you keep interrupting.

Changing boot order no password needed. USB port configuring, never done that.
I think the only thing I can do now if MBR is not advised for stability is to install a fresh MX when in Win7 to the other SSD and leave out the live USB. Will I get boot options then? Perhaps with two separate SSD's, one on MBR and the other EUFI, rather than a partition on one drive, if EUFI is enabled it might auto switch from one BIOS to the other depending on the SSD selected. I know it won't do that for a partition on a single SSD.