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So I have been using Ubuntu on and off for a while now but with the recent upgrade to dual Xeons I have now decided to use Ubuntu as my main OS, but I have had problems from the start.

It would install but only boot into the shell.

Reformatted the drive and installed again but this time it would show 1 line of text saying something missing. (Can't remember what was missing)

And a few other things but now I'm here with this:

 

 

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Duel xeon E5 2670 
Supermicro x9drl-if mobo
Gtx 980 
Nvidia 367 drivers (there old but was desperately trying to get this to run)
16gb ram

 

If anyone can help get this running it would be a great help 
Thanks,

TheDev
 

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6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

view more details for us by switching to the text console with ctrl alt f2 and they typing start x when logged in.

I tried that before, and it still is happening. Don't think I have ever had this much trouble with Ubuntu before 

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7 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

its the gpu drivers. How did you install them?

 

Id try a different distro like fedora. Other wise install them through the repos

That's how I installed them, it was the only way cos it wouldn't show the screen if I had the gpu in so I had to take it out and use on board graphics, and yeah I have tried other distros but none have come up trumps

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4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

you don't need to install them, they in there by default. Just don't install the drivers from nvidia

 

With out them installed I have no display at all with the gpu in if I use the drivers that come with Ubuntu then only on board graphics work but for the on board graphics to work I have to remove my dgpu

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7 minutes ago, TheDev said:

With out them installed I have no display at all with the gpu in if I use the drivers that come with Ubuntu then only on board graphics work but for the on board graphics to work I have to remove my dgpu

try using ubuntu 16.10 or fedora 25 or a distro with a newer kernel

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Did you try login in without the GUI?

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