Boot issues every update

[anon89812132]

Hello,

A couple of things to consider:

@Joanna_Dark

BIOS: American Megatrends v: F2 date: 04/17/2013

is the BIOS version since when the motherboard was released and there are updates that you should consider GA-Z87-HD3 (rev. 1.x) Support | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global
But make sure you update the right BIOS for your motherboard version.

From your description is seems like each time there was something during the update that somehow leads me to conclude at corrupted packages. Download is slow?
I also see that you still have the iGPU connected but not used so is better to disable it from BIOS.
For Gnome, when comes to Nvidia GPU and drivers i noticed that enabling early KMS makes things better.
See here:

Switching to Nvidia drivers from Nouveau with mhwd fails

sudo mhwd -r pci video-linux then sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia On gnome you might have to enable early kms. As administrator edit the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and make the MODULES= line like this MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm) then run from terminal: sudo mkinitcpio -P sudo update-grub Also, you probably have autologin on and is trying wayland session and not always starts (at least on my end does funky things)