Nearly all apps crashing and system freezes

One time I had issues kind of like this. I basically at this point have traced it to a bad power supply. I know this is not optimal, but can you try a Windows install just to see if you can use it for a day or so? If there are no issues, we can switch back to Linux and play with drivers more. If there are issues, sadly you got to keep testing hardware. Do you also potentially have a old GPU you can test with? I have a few old GPUs lying around my house that I use for testing. I find it interesting that the fault in your journal references krunner which may indicate the fault happens before a application launches.

From what I gather , Everything seemed ok as He was able to get to installer in live enviroment . Partitions should be ok as he did install it and login .
It was during the installer He ticked the Nvidia box . This was a error . It states not for newer Nvidia cards . If He re-installs without ticking that box in the installer , then after install use Endevour Wiki as guide , use the nvidia-installer-dkms to install video card .

( but can you try a Windows install just to see if you can use it for a day or so ) LOL !
Would take Him a day or so just to install …

Well there you go. If you can run with live USB and can’t install on SSDs while they’re physically in system - they’re not fine most likely (both in case you’re inserted them while trying, or one of them if you can exclude one) you have third one right?

Try to install on third one (WD hard drive) and see how it goes, i suspect it will be stable.
:bangbang: Just don’t forget to physically remove those SSDs which are potentially borked before trying.

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Some Updates: I can boot liveusb but can not progress on installation everytime system dead freezes and I need to poweroff.
In 1 hour time windows did 2 BSODs(reference by pointer and IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL).
and yes for last resord I will try to install only pluggind WD Hard Drive

I assume that those with SSDs inserted, correct?

I’m beginning to agree with the one comment about the PSU. I’ve had this same behavior with a dying one.

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@Gilmage
What power supply are you running for this RTX2060?

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I’m curious if the Destop is a custom build ?
Is it an older hardware system , with new RTX 2060 Video upgrade ?

Could be failing PSU or under powered after RTX upgrade .

At this stage , still to many unknown’s . Other’s in the forum are better to help at this stage !

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Jeez guys, let’s exclude one at a time.

If he’ll be able to install on HDD and have a stable system - that’s dead SSD and nothing else.
Very unlikely it’s PSU, since on live USB he was fine

P.S. @ricklinux no worries :wink:

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I’m just asking because it was brought up. Sorry, I sent it to you by mistake. Doing this from mobile phone again messed me up. :weary:

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Tried to install to HDD, installation said All done after I rebooted it boots do UEFI screen and there is no option for Linux boot… I think it actually failed to install.

I built this PC last year October, and my PSU is: FSP HYDRO G750 80PLUS GOLD.
I am actually thinking to giving up because I don’t know what to do.

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Hey, don’t worry and never give up! We’ll figure it out. :slight_smile:

Why do you think so?
Was there an errors?

Maybe you’ve just forget to setup EndeavourOS as UEFI while installation?
If so it tries to boot legacy and fails i think…

I mean…FSP is not best PSU in the world, and it can fluctuate and degrade actual power faster, than some better ones, but technically that should be enough power for your rig i think.

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Don’t give up. There are options yet you haven’t tried. I personally don’t think there is any problem with the power supply. A good quality 500 Amp power supply should be fine at bare minimum but I would recommend at least what you have which is fine. I would look at trying another live ISO created on another usb drive. I’m not sure how you created the live usb. On Linux I always use etcher and it has never failed me. I find creating Linux ISO’s from Windows not very reliable. This is the next option I would try. This is where I would start. When you boot on the live ISO use gparted first and create a new GPT partition. Then you can create manual partitions if you want or close gparted and use erase disc with swap and either no hibernate or with hibernation. Not sure what you want. I would not select Nvidia and see if it installs and boots on Nouveau. Then you could install nvidia-dkms using the installer process.

Edit: If you are using manual partitions create 512 M fat 32 efi partition and set it /boot/efi and mark it /boot. Then create a / (root) partition and a swap partition. You can create a /home partition also if you so desire. The important part is the EFI partition has to be set /boot/EFI when created and is formatted fat32 and mark it /boot.

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