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I was going to install it and tried it out before actually going through with the installation, but when I did that, the desktop loaded up for a few seconds then became a heavily reddish-orange pixelated screen and froze that way. I restarted and tried it again and it did the same thing. All I did was move the mouse for a few seconds then it screwed up.

Is this a graphics card or some other hardware problem? And if it is, how do you fix it or is it completely incompatible? My graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE and the processor is AMD Sempron 145. You can supposedly install drivers for stuff, but how can you do that when you can't use it to begin with?

Or is it a different problem entirely?

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  1. Plug in the ethernet cable so that you have an internet connection and start the computer.

  2. Open a text-only console by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+F3.

  3. At the login: prompt type your username and press Enter.

  4. At the Password: prompt type your user password and press Enter.

  5. Now you are logged in to a text-only console, and you can run terminal commands from the console. Run these commands to install the proprietary graphics driver for your NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE GPU: 

    sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install nvidia-current
sudo reboot
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