This will bring you to a grub editing menu, allowing you to temporarily change the boot parameters for this session.Ĥ. With this top selection highlighted, press the e button on your keyboard. (if you DON'T get this, repeat until you do!)ģ. Once you get there, you can release the shift key. If you did it right, you should get a text menu with a few choices - the top normally listing Linux with a version number. When you first get anything on your screen during POST, press & hold the left shift key.Ģ. I realize it may be difficult with the screen corruption, but if we can force that temporary compatibility mode, you should be able at least have a usable system.ġ. What we'll need is some info on your hardware. It's possible that the particular video chipset is no longer supported in the kernel, but you still may be able to get it working in a VGA software emulation mode? This may be a difficult one - you mentioned that you used to have Windows XP on that system, which tells me that it is probably quite old. ![]() Bios menu responds correctly I think as do the F key options. As I can only read the largest printing on the screen, the rest having the color too distorted I cannot get into settings to see what changes might be made. I think he was referring to one of the boot screens that are time sensitive. He solved it by changing the duration of something from 1 second to 10 seconds. In searching for solutions to the whole problem I found one comment that sounded like the same problem. At times the whole screen would rapidly change from near white, (the normal color?) to the corrupt display. The first version of Linux I downloaded suddenly started to display properly but only briefly and then disappeared never to return with proper display. Windows XP previously installed displayed properly as does the Acer opening page and bios menu now with Linux installed which I think rules out wiring, connections and monitor. Display directly from the disc or installed made no difference. Thinking the disc had become corrupted I downloaded Linux Cinnimon 18.3 32 bit to a disc and tried to install it but it had the same result. The install disc I used came from a friend who had used it to install Linux on his own computer without a problem. Everything seems to display where they should be and they work but they are unreadable. ![]() When I installed Linux Mint on my old Acer Aspire 1700 the display came out as you see in the photo.
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