My computer boots to a black screen
everyone.
I know there are a lot of threads for this, but I can't seem to find a satisfying answer for my specific situation.
I have an Acer-Aspire 5738Z-4619 with the following specifications:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5702025/ Here it is in html format.
This is my boot summary:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5702010/
So, my problem was that I could see nothing after the POST (which apppeared only briefly, as it always has). I would then just get a black screen, with nothing on it. I tried walking away for a few minutes, after several times of restarting my machine, and all I got was a blinking cursor. No keyboard response (I couldn't write anything or enter the GRUB).
So I figured I should clear CMOS. I did so, and nothing happened. I should mention that, before this, I tried several times to boot from an installation CD (Windows XP and then Ubuntu 12.04). Nothing worked.
Then I did this: put the Windows XP CD again, changed the boot priority order on the BIOS and set it to boot first from the CD drive. Oddly enough, I got the message "Press any key to boot from the CD". I then pressed the "Enter" key, and Ubuntu booted normally, obviously from the HDD.
I should note two things: Ubuntu has been my only operating system since two years ago; I am a little curious, so I try some things on my computer and I have this weird mania of reinstalling the SO periodically, deleting all my previous data (I make backups of what's important). Recently, I tried DADAbuntu (from the 120 days of Ubuntu project), which apparently is a software that erases ALL of the data stored in a computer, leaving it "blank" again. I wanted to see how it worked; it apparently did fine... Then I installed Ubuntu 12.04 again, from a CD, and it did just fine.
Then, on a rush to go out of my home, I accidentaly turned my computer on, and before it could boot properly I shut it down manually. Since then, the problem started. I am not experiencing any issues right now, but I would like to know if it's a serious problem and if there's something I can do.
Thanks in advance for your help; I'm sorry if I have missed some information and/or given some useless data.
Regards,
Jorge Ibarra
everyone.
I know there are a lot of threads for this, but I can't seem to find a satisfying answer for my specific situation.
I have an Acer-Aspire 5738Z-4619 with the following specifications:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5702025/ Here it is in html format.
This is my boot summary:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5702010/
So, my problem was that I could see nothing after the POST (which apppeared only briefly, as it always has). I would then just get a black screen, with nothing on it. I tried walking away for a few minutes, after several times of restarting my machine, and all I got was a blinking cursor. No keyboard response (I couldn't write anything or enter the GRUB).
So I figured I should clear CMOS. I did so, and nothing happened. I should mention that, before this, I tried several times to boot from an installation CD (Windows XP and then Ubuntu 12.04). Nothing worked.
Then I did this: put the Windows XP CD again, changed the boot priority order on the BIOS and set it to boot first from the CD drive. Oddly enough, I got the message "Press any key to boot from the CD". I then pressed the "Enter" key, and Ubuntu booted normally, obviously from the HDD.
I should note two things: Ubuntu has been my only operating system since two years ago; I am a little curious, so I try some things on my computer and I have this weird mania of reinstalling the SO periodically, deleting all my previous data (I make backups of what's important). Recently, I tried DADAbuntu (from the 120 days of Ubuntu project), which apparently is a software that erases ALL of the data stored in a computer, leaving it "blank" again. I wanted to see how it worked; it apparently did fine... Then I installed Ubuntu 12.04 again, from a CD, and it did just fine.
Then, on a rush to go out of my home, I accidentaly turned my computer on, and before it could boot properly I shut it down manually. Since then, the problem started. I am not experiencing any issues right now, but I would like to know if it's a serious problem and if there's something I can do.
Thanks in advance for your help; I'm sorry if I have missed some information and/or given some useless data.
Regards,
Jorge Ibarra
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