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My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?
UBUNTU 12.04 works well with livecd but fails to start after complete installation, black screen with a blinking cursor. I tried holding shift key and edit grub options but holding shift did not do anything. I give up, any suggestion.
I have built in…
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I have Ubuntu 10.04, my laptop is ASUS k50ij, intel duo t3000, 2gb ram, 320 HDD, intel gma 4500M video card.
My problem is that a couple days ago my monitor had start blinking for a few seconds. Then it stops and begins the same behaviour let's say in next 2 hours. What am i missing here?
Another funny problem is that when i give more or…
I have just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my toshiba laptop along side Windows 7.
When the menu comes up to choose which OS to boot into, I can easily boot into Windows 7.
I cannot successfully boot into Ubuntu. All I get is a blinking cursor on a black/purple screen.
I attempted the nomodeset trick, which was a bit more successful. I got a…
I try to install ubuntu 12.04 on my computer. I can get to the purple screen on the live cd but then, if I choose "Installing Ubuntu", I have a black screen with a cursor blinking (and nothing else happens).
My PC : acer aspire M3920, CPU i5-2300, 8 Gb RAM, NVIDIA gt 405.
What I already tried :
I tried with 12.04 and 13.04 daily…
I am using dual monitors in Ubuntu 11 with classical interface (Not Unity). I am using two monitors. The system can detect and automatically configure the monitors correctly. The problem is that after some time, one monitor will start blinking and after a while it will turn black. Does any one know that it is the problem of my…
I installed 12.04 and I got after boot black screen.Next I started in filesafe mode but filesafeX (all options)do not work(black screen.Then I started root shell , remounted rw HD
and on prompt built xorg.conf with:
$X -configure
I have edited xorg.conf to delete obsolete monitors and screens.
After reboot I get black screen…
I've installed ubuntu 12.04.1 "rock solid" \m/ everything works fine apart from the fact that during startup...the usual purple screen and ubuntu logo doesnt appear...only a black screen and blinking cursor is visible...then after a while for a fraction of a second the ubuntu logo and purple screen comes and disappear to the…
my problem is my courser is blinking for any windows that refresh.
for example right now each litter i write the courser blink for it , well it's acceptable now but imagine what happen when i open facebook (each picture , each simple element in the web page the courser blink for it) , please help me i really want to move to…
I've installed the Ubuntu 12.04.1 "rock solid" release. Everything works fine apart from the fact that during start-up the usual purple screen and Ubuntu logo doesn't appear. Only a black screen and blinking cursor is visible. Then after a while, for a fraction of a second, the Ubuntu logo and purple screen comes and…
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My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?
From my Windows XP SP3 machine, I downloaded the live image file for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I then burned a bootable CD. Then I went into the BIOS and set installation settings to (first) CD drive and (second) disabled.
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I've got a problem. I've tried booting it from a 4gb FlashDrive many times and yet, it'll just show me blinking dots. I've tried the options (booting from first drive, trying ubuntu without installing, help, test memory). I cant! I've also tried Ubuntu 11.10 but the turns out the same.
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I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with WUBI, everything is going fine and ubuntu is awesome but i have a little problem. When i open my Sony VAIO model E laptop, i have 2 choices (which is normal) but when i select Ubuntu 1/2 of the time it will just give a rapidly blinkin color background and can only be…
I have a big problem that I got today.
Yesterday computer was "on" normally, I went to sleep without shutting it down. When I woke up, I heard a strange sound and was unable to bring it up from hibernate. I unplugged the PSU.
When I plugged the PSU back in, the sound came back. When I opened the case,…
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I've got a Linksys WUSB54GC WLAN USB interface (Ralink chipset) and I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 6.0. The LED very often randomly blinks although there is no traffic in the network. I checked this with Wireshark. Sometimes, but rarely, the LED stops blinking.
The issue is present in Ubuntu and…
Arch Linux shows a blinking cursor instead of a booting installer. I ran
sudo dd if=archlinux-2010.05-core-i686.iso of=/dev/sdb1
and checked the MD5 sums.
I tried to boot it on two different PCs and got the same result: instead of booting GRUB — or anything useful, for that matter — it just…
You know that annoying orange taskbar blinking? I use Pidgin (among other programs), and I hate it when my taskbar appears with the orange blinking when I am in the middle of something.
My taskbar is on auto-hide and set up to the left side of the screen.
I cannot click the window I am…
In Windows XP when an application that doesn't currently have the focus wants to attract the user's attention its Taskbar item blinks. Often it blinks 3 times and then stops, which is fine. However, sometimes it just keeps blinking forever. An example of that is Firefox with a new…
so this is for an older pc I have to repair for a friend.
The pc has an hdd of about 60 something gb, It uses win xp and let's say 60-70% of the boots it hangs on showing only an underscore bilking line after bios screen, rest of the times it boots fine or the computer shuts down…
I have tried multiple drivers and multiple games ( Games tried, Darkfall and source based games).
Drivers tried ( 18x,29x and 24x).
When i disable SLI the games work perfectly.
A description of the blinking effect would be its like one of the video cards are not sending the…
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I wanted to try and I installed Internet Explorer 9 and now Firefox is acting strangely,
For example the URL Windows aren't opening in time, when I Maximize Firefox the window Title is blinking crazy.
But Google Earth is acting even more strangely,The application seems to…
I have an Asus Eee PC netbook which I upgraded the drive of. After some shenanigans, I was able to do a repair install from my Windows XP CD. However, I still have a blinking cursor in the upper-left-hand corner after POST.
I tried going into the recovery console and doing…
Its a weird and intermittent problem, it comes and goes with time. I thought I could fix it rebooting, but it seems that is not always. Take a look:
This noise keeps blinking at the screen the entire movie. If I give up and try again an hour from now, it will be fine...…
I was just rebuilding an old desktop PC to be used as a HTPC and the LED on the motherboard that indicates when there is power is blinking fairly rapidly. The only way I can get the machine to boot is to press the power button immediately after plugging it in, and even…
I was just rebuilding an old desktop PC to be used as a HTPC and the LED on the motherboard that indicates when there is power is blinking fairly rapidly. The only way I can get the machine to boot is to press the power button immediately after plugging it in, and even…