booting ubuntu 14.10
I have a Compaq Presario S4100NX which previously had xp on it; It has 2.5 ghz, 1gb ram, 80 gb IDE drive, a WI-FI Card, Nvidia Geforce 6200.
I could not get ubuntu 14.10 to install at all; I removed the video card, and managed to get it installed;
I shut down the pc and reinstalled the video card, with the DVI pluged to the card and display.
The system would not boot; only in recovery mode was I able to get to the desktop; without the video card working the system is way too slow; so I found and installed the driver for the card. (legacy driver) then tried reboot; still same thing it boots to a black screen; I then have to just power it off, turn it back on and do advanced options, recovery resume to get the desktop.
The video card is working fine, however the same issue on start every time.
I have tried the community, forums, youtube, the endless libraries of questions/answers even boot repair; nothing!!!
I have tried it all; frankly I am pretty stupid with Linux, and I just wanted to revive this old PC for my dad.
Frankly I am ready to throw in the towel! so far any support has been quite non existent, and what support I have gotten has failed.
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