Black Screen after updates 18.04

Question

I have a black/dark screen booting Ubuntu 18.04 after an update.

Interestingly, when I click on the volume up/down, I can very faintly see the outline of where it would be (and it gives me audio cues).

I am aware of this common black screen post. I have attempted:

1. Replaced the quiet splash with no splash and nomodeset.
2. Added nouveau.modeset=0 to the end of the linux line
3. Press Fn+ F9 (which should increase screen brightness for my laptop, but does not?).

This problem is specific to 4.15.0-74-generic, and does not occur with -72 or -70.

Edit01: ASUS Strix ROG GL503V Laptop with both Intel HD Graphics 630 (According to Bios) and NVidia GeForce 1080 GTX graphics card, but the driver is an Intel driver (i915).

I ran lspci -k in the terminal of a prior version (-72):

Edit 02: After disabling Secure Boot, lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D' returns:

(base) marco@marco-GL503VD:~$ lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D'

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1bb0 Kernel driver in use: i915

01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] Kernel driver in use: nvidia

and sudo modprobe nvidia now returns nothing (it just repeats marco@...)?!

When I look under Software and Updates under Additional Drivers, NVIDIA Corportation: GP107M[...] is selected, and under that metapackage nvidia-driver-435.

Thank you for the assistance and the patience.