Stuck on Black Screen while Booting

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I am tired and exhausted, I moved from Windows to Linux but I feel lost here. Zorin end up with Black screen during boot. :frowning:

If there is a good luck, then it get boot up successfully, but most of the times it end up with black screen for infinite time.

Processor - FX 6300 AMD
Mobo - Gigabyte 78LMT USB3 v4
Ram - 16GB
GC - Ati Redeon 6670HD

Please help me to fix. I Installed this in fresh SSD drive, there in partition, everything is new.

Before it get stuck, i get this error - "no irq handler for vector"
Kernal - 6.8.0-57-generic

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Welcome to the Forum!

So, You installed Zorin on Your System and replaced Windows, yes? No Dual-Boot?

  • Did You disabled Secure Boot and Fast Boot in BIOS?
  • Is Your BIOS in UEFI or Legacy Mode?
  • What Tool did You use to create the bootable USB Stick?
  • Did You checked the Checksum of the ISO?
  • Did You run Zorin in the ''Try Zorin'' Mode and were there any Issues?
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My bios don't have Secure boot option bcz it is old mobo
MBR Legacy Mode
I used Mac app - Etcher
Yes checksum is successfully correct
Yes, I have used Try Zorin, at that time also it get stuck in Black screen but later after few mintues it went up.

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That could be a Point. It would be good to use a Tool what offers to choose to use GPT or MBR Sheme for the bootable USB Stick. When You have Access to a Windows PC, You could use Rufus because that offers that. Look at the red marked Area:

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Choose there MBR for Your Setup. Ventoy is another Tool what offers this. MBR comes there by default. so, You wouldn't have to switch in the Settings.

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Seems like the Ati Radeon 6670HD is causing a problem, So, I pulled out the graphic card and now using the on-board graphic card which is ok for me, I don't play games or do heavy work, now booting is successfully without black screen. Thanks for the help.

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I wonder if the grub parameter radeon.modeset=1 would work with the card in place.

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I would definitely try this out later.

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I tried now but still not yet working, Am i assigned the code in right place?

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash radeon.modeset=1"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

Same stuck in black screen for long time.

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This looks 100% correct. Did you remember to run

sudo update-grub

and reboot? If so... Well, we tried.

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Yes, I ran upgrade-grub and reboot, but not sure where is the problem. I seriously want to use the graphic driver but this may cause so much issue that I can't run it. I don't want to switch back to Windows :frowning: