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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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  • Please give us some more details. Black screens during install is a classic issue, usually solved by adding grub options like acpi=off or noapic. Does the black screen happen when you install or after installation? What are the exact steps taken to reproduce the error?
    – terdon
    Sep 4, 2013 at 18:00
  • Ubuntu has a great community website with people very familar with getting Ubuntu to work on any number of configurations. Have you tried there? You have not provided us enough information to help.
    – Ramhound
    Sep 4, 2013 at 18:03
  • Black screen happens around 2/3 of the time, first when trying to run the LiveCD then after it has installed as well. It literally happens when I boot the laptop and once I have gone past grub I just get a black screen. I will try to boot in recovery mode and give you a trace if you like?
    – dpaterson1
    Sep 4, 2013 at 18:11
  • Have you tried any of the "million different solutions"? Which ones? Tell us what you've tried and how so we don't reinvent the wheel.
    – terdon
    Sep 4, 2013 at 18:17
  • I've tried adding nomodeset to grub, and nvidia/nouveau modeset. I've also tried updating NVidia drivers to version 325 (latest from NVidia).
    – dpaterson1
    Sep 4, 2013 at 18:22

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For everybody's information, this was solved by re-installing linux and adding 'noapic' to the grub boot line

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