[Solved] Computer always black when booting. Startx works

So basically I’ve probably slaughtered my new laptop. Cannot access BIOS nor does it start by itself.

But the main problem is that I cannot access the computer normally. I have to ALT F3 to login and start “startx”. Sometimes it tells me that AMDGPU and ACLI didnt load.

Here is my inxit text

System:
  Kernel: 5.8.11-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: GNOME 3.36.6 tk: GTK 3.24.23 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 3.36.3 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81YQ v: IdeaPad 5 15ARE05 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 v: IdeaPad 5 15ARE05 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: No DPK serial: <filter> 
  UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO v: E7CN24WW date: 03/25/2020 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 71.7 Wh condition: 71.7/70.0 Wh (102%) volts: 17.3/15.0 
  model: SMP L19M4PF1 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Full cycles: 14 
CPU:
  Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 4800U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 
  type: MT MCP arch: Zen rev: 1 L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 57506 
  Speed: 1397 MHz min/max: 1400/1800 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1397 2: 1397 3: 1430 4: 1811 5: 1560 6: 1470 7: 1412 8: 1464 9: 1394 
  10: 1392 11: 1394 12: 1397 13: 1396 14: 1397 15: 1397 16: 1379 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
  bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 1002:1636 
  Device-2: Syntek Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus ID: 1-3:2 chip ID: 174f:244c serial: <filter> 
  Display: server: X.org 1.20.9 compositor: gnome-shell driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: <xdpyinfo missing> 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.38.0 5.8.11-1-MANJARO LLVM 10.0.1) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.8 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 03:00.1 chip ID: 1002:1637 
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.5 
  chip ID: 1022:15e2 
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.11-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 8086:2723 
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 7.25 GiB (1.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: SK Hynix model: HFS512GD9TNI-L2A0B 
  size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 11010C10 
  scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 452.35 GiB used: 7.25 GiB (1.6%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.35 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 53.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 36 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 361 Uptime: 4m Memory: 14.87 GiB used: 1.33 GiB (9.0%) 
  Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: pacman: 1157 Shell: Zsh 
  v: 5.8 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.1.05

Lenovo came with freedos. Thus had that as bootloader. I deleted that partitions by mistake.

My installments didnt know bios was in uefi. So what ever OS i installed i couldn’t reach bios.

Solution. Installed my ssd on another computer that had uefi. Then i placed it back into my laptop. Voila i got bios.

Made sure it was uefi and installed win10 clean and manjaro too.

But i cannot access my bios through f2 anymore. Only with the uefi bootloader.

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