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I restarted my Ubuntu 14.04, and it brought up the login screen so I logged in and there was nothing but a black screen. I searched the web and tried about 15 fixes, but nothing worked.

Something similar to this happened before: I was stuck in a login loop (I would login, the screen would flash, and the login screen would come up again). The only solution I found for that was a re-install of the OS, which I really can't afford to do again (I have a site that runs off this computer and I need to have it up again).

Help is greatly appreciated!

muru
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Gabriel Ruoff
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Step 1 : Remove all NVIDIA software you have installed.

Highlight the Ubuntu menu entry and press the E key.
Add nouveau.modeset=0 to the end of the linux line.
Press the F10 key to boot into the Ubuntu system.

When the login screen appears press Ctrl+Alt+F1.
Enter your user name and the password, then execute : 

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo reboot

Step 2 : Install NVIDIA drivers 352 from the repositories.

Highlight the Ubuntu menu entry and press the E key.
Add nouveau.modeset=0 to the end of the linux line.
Press the F10 key to boot into the Ubuntu system.

When the login screen appears press Ctrl+Alt+F1.
Enter your user name and the password then execute : 

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-352
sudo reboot
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