Screen goes black 5 seconds after booting into desktop environment from flashdrive

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Hi!
Welcome to community!

Thank you for trying to fix that odd behavior you met. Seems to be you know Manjaro before or heard recommendations about it.

  1. Let’s verify that the image is good.
    In the place of where you download the ISO image file from, the hash sum file or SHA string value should be present. Did you tried to verify that hash file/value? That will be a guarantee that that file came to you storage undamaged.

  2. How are you “burned” ISO into your portable storage? Just in case.

  3. Please post full filename of the ISO image you used.

  4. Where are you downloaded it from?

  5. Please try different images: [Stable Update] 2021-12-10 - Kernels, Systemd, LibreOffice, Plasma, Browser, Thunderbird - #3 by philm
    with different kernels there are 3 variants.

    If none of them works for you, please try developer version: [Stable Update] 2021-12-10 - Kernels, Systemd, LibreOffice, Plasma, Browser, Thunderbird

    Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma , Gnome , XFCE .

    If developer version will be good and if you are new to Manjaro, then after installation do not install any update (your current branch of updates will be unstable), but first switch to the stable branch of updates by:

    sudo pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch stable --proto https --country Germany,Austria

    and after that do not forget the

    sudo pacman -Syyu

    which brings you available updates and warns you that some of your packages has a bit ahead version of packages. By the time goes by stable branch will got updates and that warnings count will be less and finally will absent (perhaps about 2-3 weeks).
    Please note: I mean warnings only about package versions are ahead. it could be ignored. But pay attention to other warnings (in case you will have them).

    PS List of avail. countries will be available by:

    pacman-mirrors -l

    Just choose 2-3 countries close to you in try to get maximum speed of updates downloading.

Hope some of them helps and finally you will be able install Manjaro OS.
Perhaps some drivers involved into the issue. And remember the kernel version generation which will work for you (5.4 / 5.10 / 5.15 / etc. if any).

Back to us and leave a note how it goes for you.

Thank you for your efforts!

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