Trouble installing Xubuntu 18.04 on brand new Del 17 3000

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 04:28, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried disabling UEFI (and a host of other related settings), but
> then it won't even boot the Win 10 that came preinstalled.

I think it's not possible to disable UEFI. It's a description of the
type of firmware and the only way to get rid of it completely is to
re-flash the machine with replacement 3rd party firmware, e.g.
CoreBoot.

https://www.coreboot.org/

So I suspect you only disabled SecureBoot or something.

Step 1, try to get Windows back.

Download the ISO from Microsoft.com and put it on a DVD or USB key,
boot from that, and try system recovery. Failing that, you may have to
reinstall.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10ISO

Step 2, update the firmware.

I can't find any info about versions without an exact model number.
There are literally dozens of submodels called "Inspiron 17 3000"

Step 3, try a different distro, experimentally, e.g. Fedora.

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