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Bliner56
November 24th, 2009, 10:44 PM
OS: Ubuntu 64 bit
Monitor: Acer X183H
Graphics Cards: 7800 GT OC

I tried Administration->Hardware Drivers

Then I activated the driver "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 185)" which was recommended.

I rebooted the computer. The last thing I see is the ubuntu symbol and then everything was black. I tried Alt-Ctrl-F1 several times and nothing happened. So I reinstalled the OS since I had just installed it.


I downloaded 190.42 NVIDIA driver off the NVIDIA site and the same thing happened.

I changed the OS to Ubuntu 32 bit. Same result.

I am pretty new to linux in general so this is all pretty confusing for me.

The reason I want to improve the graphics card is my Acer X183H has a resolution of
1366 by 768 and I want to get my computer to display that. Thanks.

Edit: I switched the monitor so I don't think it's the monitor.

Bliner56
November 25th, 2009, 12:18 PM
Turns out my graphics card wasn't getting enough power since I missed a connector.