7days, No Luck, No Mint...

[Husse]

Welcome to Mint cswalker
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STARTX in terminal results: server is already active for display 0.

This means that you've ended up with a working system (sort of) but where you should not be
This is, as I think you already have guessed, a graphics problem. In Mint Envy is installed by default so it's easy to install the nvidia driver
First when you end up in a terminal try Ctrl+F7 (the Control key and the F7 function key) This should get you into a GUI, but as you have problems you may get
server is already active for display 0
If so issue Envy and you will be guided through an install of the nvidia driver and then be able to boot into the GUI