Invalid 7-bit I2C address 0xffff freezing Debian 13 boot
G'day! I'm incredibly new to Linux and have just had my first (few) goes at installing Debian 13 (with KDE) in order to dual-boot with Windows.
My PC has:
An Intel Core i5-14400F CPU
A Gigabyte B760M Gaming WiFi Plus Motherboard
A NVIDA GeForce RTX 4060Ti 16GB GPU
1TB SSD for Windows
500GB SSD for Linux
1TB SSD for priority storage
2TB HDD for general storage
Extra: 2 1920x1080 monitors.
Everything with the installation process went well physically, up until I get to the first boot, and suddenly I get the i2c error described in the title. As this is one of the first few processes during a boot, I am unable to enter the terminal.
After attempting and failing to troubleshoot the problem, I ignored the error and KDE decided to no longer respond. I read that it had something to do with my NVIDIA GPU so I swapped to GNOME. The I2C error still persisted, and so I instead installed Debian 12.
Debian 12 installed and I actually got to the desktop! I then attempted to upgrade from Debian 12 to 13, as I need Debian 13 to use software for work.
After upgrading and rebooting, I returned to the same error from the very start. I was getting errors that graphics drivers weren't communicating with my graphics card, and have no idea if those are correlated, but frankly nothing seems to work.
As I said, I'm incredibly new, and don't know how much useful information I'm giving. But all the forum or reddit posts I'm seeing aren't applicable to me or are incredibly complicated using information I'm unable to either obtain or commands I'm unable to give. Is there a fix? Is this something trivial that I've missed?