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Requirements

  1. At least 8 GB of ram

  2. A USB stick with at least 8GB of capacity

  3. A working internet connection to download the ISO and Rufus. Internet connection is not required afterwards

Getting it setup

  1. Download the ISO, latest download will always be stored in this text file, simply copy the text file and put it in your browser. Copy paste it to your browser's address bar.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THESE FILES TO THE USB YOU ARE GOING TO BE USING. I REPEAT DO NOT DOWNLOAD THESE FILES TO THE USB YOU ARE GOING TO BE USING. DOWNLOAD THEM TO SOMEWHERE LIKE YOUR DESKTOP OR DOWNLOADS FOLDER.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THESE FILES TO THE USB YOU ARE GOING TO BE USING. I REPEAT DO NOT DOWNLOAD THESE FILES TO THE USB YOU ARE GOING TO BE USING. DOWNLOAD THEM TO SOMEWHERE LIKE YOUR DESKTOP OR DOWNLOADS FOLDER.

  1. Download the latest Rufus release from here, simply scroll down to Download and download the latest release.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THESE FILES TO THE USB YOU ARE GOING TO BE USING. I REPEAT DO NOT DOWNLOAD THESE FILES TO THE USB YOU ARE GOING TO BE USING. DOWNLOAD THEM TO SOMEWHERE LIKE YOUR DESKTOP OR DOWNLOADS FOLDER.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THESE FILES TO THE USB YOU ARE GOING TO BE USING. I REPEAT DO NOT DOWNLOAD THESE FILES TO THE USB YOU ARE GOING TO BE USING. DOWNLOAD THEM TO SOMEWHERE LIKE YOUR DESKTOP OR DOWNLOADS FOLDER.

  1. Open up rufus once you have both the ISO downloaded and the USB you are going to be using plugged in.

You should see something similar to this, if you see MBR under partition scheme then you must follow this section before continuing

  1. Click the "Select Icon" next to the "Disk or ISO image" dropdown menu.

  1. Select the ISO you downloaded from the Google Drive link earlier

  1. Click the checkmark icon to the left of select

  1. Go to this text file here, the string of characters and characters have to match with the MD5 one you get in Rufus. If it does not it likely means your download was corrupted, try downloading it again.

  1. Make sure that Partition scheme is "GPT, Target system is UEFI (non CSM), and that File system is "Fat32"

  1. After all this is done click start

  1. Once done flashing, shutdown, go into BIOS / UEFI on the computer you wish to troubleshoot (this has its own wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/24hoursupport/wiki/enteringbios ) making the USB you flashed the top boot priority, you may also need to disable secure boot before saving and exiting bios.

  2. Once booted in you will see a welcome to manjaro screen, using your arrow keys to scroll to driver.

If you have an AMD or Intel GPU, select Open source drivers.

If you have an Nvidia GPU select Proprietary drivers.

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  1. Scroll with your arrow keys to boot with the appropriate driver.

Using the tools in the Manjaro USB

GPU Stress testing

  1. Go to your desktop and click the "GPU Stress test" desktop file.

  2. You will see two windows pop up, one will be furmark which will take up your entire screen. Go to the top right and click the left most icon to minimize it if you wish to run Unigine Heaven too. After that you will see Unigine Heaven. Click start after making sure to disabling fullscreen by unchecking the fullscreen box. Note that you will be running two GPU stress tests at once like this, so expect your system to slow to a crawl.

  3. Run these three at the same time for about an hour. You can launch the "GPU monitoring" application by clicking it on the desktop to see temps and GPU usage

CPU Stress test

  1. Go to your desktop and click the "CPU Stress test" desktop file.

  2. You will see a command window open up, at the end you will see Join Gimps? (Y=Yes, N=Just stress testing) (Y): enter N then press your enter key.

  3. You will then see Number of torture test threads to run (12):, press enter at this which will stress all your threads by default.

  4. Then you will see Type of torture test to run (4):, press enter again which will run all the tests.

  5. At last, you will see Customize settings (N):, press enter once again, then at the Run a weaker torture test (not recommended) (N): press enter again.

  6. Finally, you will see Accept the answers above? (Y):, press enter AGAIN... at this... now you will see a bunch of worker text files.

  7. If you want to make sure it's working, open up "System Monitor" by looking it up in the search menu at the bottom left, your CPU usage should be at a near 100%

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