Thinking of this from the fundamental troubleshooting techniques could save a lot of effort.
BIOS is at a lower level and I have seen systems go from misbehaving and intermittent to straight forward easy Linux installs. (with the latest bios version) Another example of low level would be checking the power supply for ripple or noise. Digital meter does not show that. Changing other components will not help. Not saying this is your case, but worth thinking about the basics. You can see a lot of time wasted once in a while when basics ignored. Mel over 15 years experience in electronics maintenance and repair On 17/06/16 01:17 AM, Zander Robertson wrote: > > http://www.howtogeek.com/196740/how-to-fix-an-ubuntu-system-when-it-wont-boot/ > > I hope this may help. There's a few things to try for sure. > > Alex > > On 15 Jun 2016 2:10 am, "Richard Carter" <carter.r....@gmail.com > <mailto:carter.r....@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I'm having a lot of trouble with ubuntu 16.04 on my Intel NUC. It > started with the number 5 being inserted an indefinite number of > times in the place where a password should go in an application. I > was able to stop this infinite loop by restarting. > > A few days later booting would proceed to the point where I had to > enter my password to access the desktop. Instead of there being a > space for my password the word "Retry" appeared and the message > "System is booting up. See pam_nologin (8)" in red letters > appeared. This appeared for Ubuntu, Gnome, Gnome Flashback > (Compiz) and Gnome Flashback (Metacity). Here too rebooting solved > the problem----for a few days. > > Now after a few more days, when I turn on the computer I get the > Intel slogan as usual and instruction regarding f2, f7, f10 etc > followed by a black screen with a pulsing short white bar in the > top left corner. That's as far as booting goes! > > I would appreciate advice on how to solve this (last) problem. > > Robin > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca <mailto:clug-talk@clug.ca> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
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