Hello,
I'm fairly new to Ubuntu. I'm running 12.04 on an ASUS laptop, and right now I'm using the CD that I used to install it. I don't have Windows on here, because I was just so sick of it, so I made the switch. It was working very well for me until last night.
Normally I just let my laptop hibernate, rather than restarting it, so I don't know when the problem arose. Recently I was trying to install Stepmania, and PlayOnLinux/Wine so that I could use iTunes. I also did some of the Ubuntu updates. I thought that I had better restart, because I hadn't turned my computer off in a while. After restarting, though, it doesn't work anymore.
I press the power button, and it shows the ASUS startup screen. Then it shows a blinking _ in the top left corner, before the screen completely shuts off. If I press the power button again, the screen turns on again just in time for me to see the Ubuntu shut down screen, with the dots that turn red one by one. I've tried turning it on a few times, and I can press F2 which takes me to a blue screen with the boot options and such. Another time I was pressing random buttons, and it somehow took me to the terminal which let me log in using my username and password, but I don't know what (if anything) I need to do from there. I also tried pressing shift to get to GRUB and starting in recovery mode, but it just brought me to a screen with options that I don't understand. I tried the boot options from there, though (I think one was a regular startup, and one was a graphics failsafe mode), and my screen turned off again both times.
Any advice for how to fix it? Or should I just get my files on an external hard drive and re-install, if that would be easiest? I'd like to avoid that if possible, because I don't want to have to reinstall my favorite programs one by one, but I'll do it if I have to. Thanks!
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