I've just bought a new laptop, I used Linux on my old laptop for 15 months with no problems, but the new laptop has had problems now with several distributions. The laptop fails to boot up ~2/3 of the time and just hangs on a black screen. I have searched for this problem around, there seems to be a million different solutions, none of which have worked for me. I have narrowed it down to NVidia Graphics (I think), but after installing the NVidia drivers it pretty much stopped working at all.
System Information;
Lenovo IdeaPad Z580
Intel i5 processor
8GB RAM
other OS; Win8x64
distributions tried: Ubuntu, Mint, Elementary
Just want to get a Linux working because it is SO much faster for doing development on. Any help would be much appreciated!
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. Does the black screen happen when you install or after installation? What are the exact steps taken to reproduce the error?