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My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?

Today after installing all available updates, I restarted my PC and my monitor won't display anything. It is strange as I cannot even get it to display a BIOS screen during startup.

The PC is however booting up - the media player is picking up mediaTomb and streaming perfectly well.

I have tried a second monitor, same thing, absolutely no response during any part of boot sequence or thereafter. I have also tried a second cord as well, no difference.

I did recently upgrade monitors and when doing so enabled the nvidia driver rather than using the generic one, but have had no problems until this afternoon.

I am totally aware that this is a question that lacks a lot of details, but I am fairly new to Linux.

As the PC is up and running, I am happy to CTRL-ALT-T a terminal window and type in any suggestions you folks might have to get the monitor displaying anything.

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It seems that the latest nvidia drivers that came down in the update somehow threw the system out.

After opening a terminal using CTRL-ALT-T I entered:

sudo nvidia-settings --uninstall

then typed in my password waited for a half hour (no idea how long the process would take), then restarted the machine. Loaded up perfectly fine.

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