awalker
November 4th, 2008, 09:19 AM
During an upgrade of my PC from 8.04 to 8.10 the power failed, or actually my wife switched it off as she did not realise it was on.
I do know for a fact it had downlaoded and installed all files as it had just been checked. So I believe it was either doing the file cleanup or was waiting to be rebooted. Not sure exactly where as if I had know it would still have been on;)
So anyway I tried to reboot it with fingers crossed and it came up with the login screen. Hurrah I thought logged in and it went to a black screen with the hour glass ball thingy but then just sat there on teh black screen.
I do have an nvidia card and it did say it would disable third party drivers, which I am sure I was using. I am not sure if this has anything to do with it.
Any help would be appreciated as I am no expert, it was working nicely so I did not fiddle too much.
I do know for a fact it had downlaoded and installed all files as it had just been checked. So I believe it was either doing the file cleanup or was waiting to be rebooted. Not sure exactly where as if I had know it would still have been on;)
So anyway I tried to reboot it with fingers crossed and it came up with the login screen. Hurrah I thought logged in and it went to a black screen with the hour glass ball thingy but then just sat there on teh black screen.
I do have an nvidia card and it did say it would disable third party drivers, which I am sure I was using. I am not sure if this has anything to do with it.
Any help would be appreciated as I am no expert, it was working nicely so I did not fiddle too much.