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Najda
United States3765 Posts
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Foxxan
Sweden3427 Posts
If i press "numlock" or "caps" on keyboard, the button doesnt go on off (the green button). Forced to shut it the pc off on the case button, I have 44C in idle mode on the GPU. Before in idle it was around 30C. Dont remember what i have on load but the screen can go off anywhere(in games, in windows...) If i understand pcs correctly, there is impossible to say what it is, iam forced to try different stuff? One more relevant thing which might be relevant: I got blue screens before: "bad physics memory" and then it said what i was supposed to do: "Try and disable some memory...." cant remember eactly what it stood but i turned off some thing on my memories and the blue screens stopped. | ||
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
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Craton
United States17291 Posts
Don't know of an existing one offhand, though. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On July 11 2014 13:12 Ropid wrote: The black screen means there's something wrong with the graphics driver or X (that's the name of the thingy running the desktop). Even if the graphics are totally broken, you can access the command line in text mode. You can switch to a "virtual console" by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1, F2, F3, etc. Try Ctrl-Alt-F2. You'll see an empty screen in text mode and will be able to log into your user account. You'll get to a command line prompt. X is actually also running inside one of those virtual console thingies and to switch back to the graphical desktop you need to know its number. No idea about Ubuntu, but it might be Alt-F7 (just try Alt-F1, F2, F3, ..., also no need to press Ctrl when in text mode). You need to look up how to install the NVIDIA driver on the command line for Ubuntu. The Nouveau driver is the free driver and only good for 2D desktop graphics (work isn't finished for it to be good enough for 3D). I don't know why the nouveau driver doesn't want to work for you, but whatever issues it has with the GTX 550, I bet the driver built by NVIDIA themselves will just work. So what you will do is start the machine and wait until it is finished and you are at that black screen. Then you hit Ctrl-Alt-F2. The screen will switch resolution and the text mode login prompt should show up after a second or so. You then log in with your user name and password and will see the command line. You then type in the commands you googled about how to install the NVIDIA driver on Ubuntu. About what commands to use on Ubuntu, I found the following for installing the nvidia driver: jockey-text -e xorg:nvidia_current This one might also be interesting, will probably list some sort of selection about what drivers are available: jockey-text -l If you add "sudo " at the front of those commands, it will be run as the root account. I don't know if that's needed. After you are done or give up or whatever, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart and see if the black screen is gone. I managed to get to the login but it seems I don't know my username. How do I find that out? Okay I did the jockey-text line but it says xorg:nvidia-current is an unknown driver. It says use --list to see a list but I can't get --list command to work. | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
jockey-text --list | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
http://askubuntu.com/questions/41681/blank-screen-after-installing-nvidia-restricted-driver EDIT: Another thing I remembered... there's an "nvidia-xconfig" script that comes with the nvidia driver. I don't remember if it's really necessary to run it or not, but you could try to see if it works afterwards. You type this: sudo nvidia-xconfig It will write a config file named "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" and that might be needed for some reason (the packages should already set things up right, I think). | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
I did some but not all of the things in that guide because it said it was unable to locate some things, such as the xerver-xorg-video-nv thing. I at least installed nvidia-common. When I rebooted it took me to grub, and I had to boot in recovery mode. Recovery mode gets me to the desktop, I'm assuming grahpics drivers are disabled or something because in the software/updates menu it says no additional drivers found and no proprietary drivers in use. I can only do 800x600 resolution. I just installed nvidia-current and made sure nvidia-common is installed. | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
But those nvidia-..... packages should be the same thing really. No idea if nvidia-common is just some general management thingy or actually a real driver. You can 100% check if the nvidia drivers are installed if you start "nvidia-settings". A settings panel will show up. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
I uninstalled and reinstalled nvidia-common but still can only get to tr desktop in recovery mode. Sometimes when I boot normally I get to a purple screen with garbled text and can do anything with the keyboard, and other times I get to a black screen with scrolling text and a timer and can't do anything with the keyboard. I'm about 90% of the way to concluding that Linux is more trouble than it's worth. Valve's steam os bullshit has no chance in hell if it is as arcane as this. | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
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KingofGods
Canada1218 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Jonoman92
United States9110 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
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Flaiker
Germany235 Posts
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
On July 13 2014 15:29 Jerubaal wrote: Hey, guys. I'm getting BSODs and I'm pretty sure it's a driver/software issue. I looked at the "Before You Request Tech Help" thread and the website it suggests going to for driver help just has a bunch of dead links. Is there an alternative or should I post here or do I need to make my own thread? And is copy/paste ok for the dump files or should I use pastebin? Reinstalling your OS should be a quick and easy fix to this, if you don't have any data you don't want to lose. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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