darudey Posted January 17, 2010 Report Share Posted January 17, 2010 If I have two HDDs same model, make, size, does this cause some type of conflict? Could this cause the blank screen problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 17, 2010 Report Share Posted January 17, 2010 (edited) If I have two HDDs same model, make, size, does this cause some type of conflict? Could this cause the blank screen problem? Nope. The black screen is because the driver isn't properly installed. alt+crtl+backspace is now disabled by default in xorg settings, as Ubuntuland thought a newbie could possible press these three keys together by accident... The videocard is well supported by the regular nvidia driver, and should work right out of the box. Maybe you have installed the "server" kernel? Which is the output of uname -a Edited January 17, 2010 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darudey Posted January 17, 2010 Report Share Posted January 17, 2010 Nope. The black screen is because the driver isn't properly installed. alt+crtl+backspace is now disabled by default in xorg settings, as Ubuntuland thought a newbie could possible press these three keys together by accident... The videocard is well supported by the regular nvidia driver, and should work right out of the box. Maybe you have installed the "server" kernel? Which is the output of uname -a uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.31.6-desktop586-1mnb #1 SMP Tue Dec 8 15:43:31 EST 2009 i686 Intel® Pentium® D CPU 2.66GHz GNU/Linux It appears to be working ok now, but I'm worried it'll happen again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darudey Posted January 18, 2010 Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 Ok, I don't know exactly how or if I fixed it, but I've done the following, and so far, last 2 days, no blank screens: 1) Upgraded my motherboard BIOS 2) Reset the BIOS (also removes my overclock) 3) Remove any other Linux distro on any other HDDs I have 4) Ran an update Will report if this problem crops up again. I could reinstall Mandriva again and check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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