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AlastairSC
January 27th, 2010, 12:44 AM
I've just installed Zorin OS onto the hard drive of my Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop. I used the entire drive, overwriting Ubuntu9.10. Now my screen is black.

I think the system loaded correctly - I can hear some welcome music and the active l.e.d. of my drive slows and stops flickering. But I can't see anything!

Here's what I tried:

- using the keyboard controls to increase the brightness (no effect).
- connecting a flatscreen monitor from my desktop and attempting to use the FN+f6 keys to change the display from the laptop screen to the other (no effect)
- rebooting
- rebooting into Setup (my laptop screen lights up for perhaps 5 seconds and then goes black again)
- rebooting with Ubuntu 9.04 CD in the drive (no response)
- attempting to reboot with my original Windows ME re-installation disc in the drive (no effect)


AAARGH!!


What can I do??
My Video card is nVidia GE Force 2

Thanks in advance for any help or pointers.

candtalan
July 15th, 2010, 07:24 PM
Not sure if this will fully solve things for you but it might be useful if your zorin was based on ubuntu 10.04 or maybe 9.10

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1531644

good luck