Gabe I.
Infrastructure person. Prefers runbooks over heroics. Interested in dedicated servers, firewalls, psu.
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Try before switching: boot a live USB and test Wi Fi, sound, webcam, printer and teh specific apps first. Hardware surprises show up in the first ten minutes. fingers crossed 🤞
Your BIOS observation is a good clue. If artifacts appear only after Windows loads the driver, but not in BIOS or in Safe Mode (which uses teh Microsoft Basic Display Adapter), that leans towards driver/softawre. If they show up in BIOS…