{"id":493953,"date":"2026-06-14T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:26:00","slug":"my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Ubuntu and use it every day, but when a major version upgrade on a laptop with one of the commonest graphics and mobo chipsets in the world leaves you at a situation with a black screen and blanking cursor that probably only a reinstall from a live CD will fix, it makes me wonder why people think it will displace Windows any time soon. Why do I have to choose between crap graphics &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/162075\/my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/162075\/my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Ubuntu and use it every day, but when a major version upgrade on a laptop with one of the commonest graphics and mobo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}