I redid #8, no change. Not sure how to add that Grub line. There seems to be few options in Bios and i think I did all the right things with disabling the secure boot and software guard and I made the OS boot manager the1st priority and in that chose the Ubuntu option over Win. Now what?

I thought there might be a simple fix. Considering its Linux and if that's the worse thing about the install is that I have to always boot via F1 then ESC that's not a big thing. I already know that the laptop sound card will never work even though it has a high end Bang&Olufsen speaker set up. Headphones and external speakers do work though. Maybe I just need to accept this is the way it will be?

add the new line, ctrl-x y to save and exit
then run "sudo update grub".

This may fix if it is a video problem based on this:
If there is fastboot in the bios disable it.

Other than that I'm out of ideas for the moment.

No change. I get the 3+ lines on every single Linux computer I ever owned and on every distro. This was explained way back when that Linux will always be unhappy with something on a computer that was native Win. There is no fastboot.

probably you will find it useful: https://github.com/wdullaer/wdullaer...e-360-linux.md (but probably you know it already)
Otherwise would be nice to know exactly what did you try to install and how?
Also you may try to capture those lines with a camera (smartphone?)

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Thanks for the link, looks a little to complex for me, but I will look deeper. What I tried and did install was Mint 21.2 and I did so by creating a bootable USB in which I verified the integrity and authentication of the iso image. It downloaded as normal and I let LM chose how it wanted to install and always chose recommended when it displayed. I originally thought I maybe should have formatted the new ssd but it looks now like Linux is still going to change it to whatever it likes so maybe that was ok. I'm using the computer so 99% is fine other than the only way to boot is F1 the ESC but then boots fine. The very small other issue is that rarely it will start the cpu fans on what should be a low cpu function, but it is rare. This computer is way too powerful for that in this distro. It in my mind seems like at times it's working harder than it needs to, which brings me back to the install. What I have learned over the years and already mentioned, as great as Linux is in so many ways, its very complex and is asked to do so many things that it wasn't designed for and on a computer that was Win native. I already know the built in speakers will never work with this sound card, the code simply doesn't exist. It would be nice but these models were so rare that not worth people's time when the headphones work and a link to external speakers do. I can live with the lines of code at boot as every other Linux machine I have also has those but all works fine. In the end, since it came without the Optane ssd and was not disabled properly before removal, I only had 2 choices, buy another Optane ssd and use on Win only or buy a normal ssd and try to work around the issues to use Linux.

ok, do you want to make a dual boot system (so you need both linux and windows), or you want to have only mint?
Does it mean you could successfully boot the install image and start the installation?

I've learned from the greats and will stay with single boot. I'm sure some do it very well, but the farther I stay away from google the better. I can do 100% of what I want/need on Linux. Doesn't google already control enough of the world.

in that case during the installation you can answer "use the whole drive" or remove everything on it. Otherwise the installation should be fully automatic.
(again, could you boot and start the installation?)