WanderingMind One small fly in the ointment is it does not seem to want to boot into the BIOS. At the moment, I would only do this to clear up one very minor issue (an annoying password demand before the machine will boot at all).

you spam your F12 (or whatever key) when booting, to show the boot menu, you see BIOS, select it. and it just hangs and does nothing?

Those annoying master passwords are usually created in the BIOS. On the Satellite I had to create a master PW in order to access the hidden features of the BIOS that would let me install Solus. That didn't happen to you?

      brent On the Satelite. no. Once I had it booting from USB, I was good to go.
      As far as this machine, the ESC key brings up the same prompt to boot into the BIOS, but then nothing happens when I choose that. It just sits there with a blank screen until I power down. Annoying, but the machine is working for now. So I'm using it in preference to the ancient one running Lubuntu which didn't even have space for all my files while I take care of a few things I need to, then try to figure out what happened.

          WanderingMind My gut feeling the remaining issues are bios related mostly
          as I have read alot about that on net.
          I dont have any acer stuff so limited to how bios acts but sure the forum could help if needed let us know.

              Axios every time I think I got laptop bios figured out, I find out everything I knew was wrong.

              his bios does not want to show itself anymore. at least Solus boots.