I have an older desktop (circa 2010) that I’m trying to repurpose into a small game server and NAS. It doesn’t have UEFI. I’ve tried booting from USB and from DVD. I can get into the BIOS boot menu and select the device to boot from, but after I select it just goes to a blank screen.

I’m using the onboard AMD GPU. This is a fresh hard drive. I’ve tried the boot media on my laptop and it boots fine. I’ve put the old Windows 7 SSD back into the desktop and it boots fine. I’ve tried different images: Fedora Silverblue, Antix x64, Antix 386. Everything is giving the same results.

Can you recommend any other troubleshooting tips?

  • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.orgOP
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    23 hours ago

    Thank you, I appreciate the help.

    I disabled quick boot. My BIOS is old enough that it doesn’t have secure boot.

    https://imgur.com/egcL7yt

    I can’t even get to the GRUB stage. I try to boot from the USB or the DVD and it just hangs with no video output.