Dell Vostro 230
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poliltimmy
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Dell Vostro 230
I can not get any distro of linux liveCD to boot on this machine. Blinking line in corner, black screen. Any suggestions?
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austin.texas
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Re: Dell Vostro 230
Solving freezes with NVIDIA GeForce GPUs
Some NVIDIA GeForce cards don't work well with the open-source driver present in Linux Mint.
If Linux Mint freezes during boot time, use the "nomodeset" boot option as illustrated in the video below:
https://linuxmint.com/rel_rosa_cinnamon.php
Some NVIDIA GeForce cards don't work well with the open-source driver present in Linux Mint.
If Linux Mint freezes during boot time, use the "nomodeset" boot option as illustrated in the video below:
https://linuxmint.com/rel_rosa_cinnamon.php
Mint 18.2 Cinnamon, Quad core AMD A8-3870 with Radeon HD Graphics 6550D, 8GB DDR3, Ralink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
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Mute Ant
Re: Dell Vostro 230
You can safely try the nolapic option as well. My Dell just won't start without it.