Aurora R15, dual booting?

Question

I am experiencing audio issues that manifest as "stuttering, buzzing, dropout issue" regardless of the sound output devices I am using. Running LatencyMon shows that my system is being severely impacted by very high DPC counts due to Microsoft's DirectX graphics kernel and Nvidia's Windows kernel mode drivers which are probably causing or at least contributing to the problem.

My idea is to turn this computer into a dual boot configuration to allow me to install Windows 10 to see if there is something going on with Windows 11. Has anybody done this, or a completely different OS for that matter, and what recommendations do you have before proceeding?

Thanks for your thoughts!

JOcean · Accepted Answer

@jkeifer3​ First of all try a different USB port. If that does not help then go to this page at Superuser for more information and download the Intel RST driver here and add it to the Windows 10 installation USB drive. The page at Superuser refers to Windows 11 but the procedure for Windows 10 is the same. This YouTube video may help out as well.

JOcean · Answer

This article at PCMag describes the procedure. It assumes Windows 10 is already installed but the same process would apply if Windows 11 was installed first. I have dual booted on a number of my systems and there is no difference when installing either Windows. If you have 2 drives then that is even easier but with one drive simply create a partition on that drive large enough for Windows and other programs. for example a 100GB partition or so would suffice. You can do that in Disk Management or a number of other programs such as AOMEI Partition Assistant which is free.

jkeifer3 · Answer

@JOcean​ Hi and thanks for the tip.  I am now running into a problem in that the bios on this particular Aurora R15 will not allow me to choose a boot device other than the hard disk or the network.  I can find no setting to allow a USB or a CD to be booted from. Is this a limitation of the bios on this particular machine or am I not seeing something? Thank you.

JOcean · Answer

@jkeifer3​ Not knowing how you created the Windows boot USB drive, I would suggest going to the MS site here and downloading the media creation tool for Windows 10. That will create a bootable Windows 10 installation USB drive. With that USB drive installed in the system immediately at boot tap F12 and select the USB drive to boot from. From that point on it should be pretty easy to continue with the installation.

jkeifer3 · Answer

@JOcean​ Media Creation Tool was the way that I created the USB boot drive.  I attempted to boot the computer and go into bios using the F2 key and was looking through the bios, in particularly the boot section, and found nothing remotely resembling enabling USB or CD boot.  I'll go through the boot sequence once again this time via the F12 route and see what happens. Thanks for bearing with me.

jkeifer3 · Answer

@JOcean​ Making progress.  F12 now allows me to get to the USB for boot.  When I try and install windows, the USB installation disk can't see either of my hard drives which are not standard SATA drives but, rather, NVMe M.2 drives.  I guess I need to find a driver for these drives.  Any possible idea of what to look for in a driver for this type of drive? Thanks in advance!

jkeifer3 · Answer

@JOcean​ Thanks much!  The RST driver from Intel did the trick!

JOcean · Answer

@jkeifer3​ Happy to help out!

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