Video shuts off during Kubuntu 13.04 install

[DeadlyOats]

I finally got the DVD Kubuntu 13.04 to start properly in UEFI, but I still have the problem of the Video shutting off my monitor during installation.

When I click on "Install Ubuntu", or on "Check disk for errors" options on the options menu screen, a few seconds later, as install begins, the monitor blanks to black, then it goes into energy save mode and does not wake up again. If I shut off the monitor and turn it back on again, it gives the "No signal" error message.

I have a home-built system:

ASRock P7 Extremee4 Gen3 motherboard with the Intel P67 chipset.

Intel i5 CPU - not overclocked, underclocked or otherwise modified.

Two nVidia 560Ti graphics cards in SLI configuration.

I'm attempting to do a dual boot of Win7 and Kubuntu on a RAID in an external hard drive enclosure. The enclosure has it's own built in RAID card and is connected to the PC via an eSATA connection. I installed Win7 in it, and booted it from this RAID array successfully, but I can't get Ubuntu/Kubuntu installed because of the monitor shutting off issue. The same issue comes up if I try to install Kubuntu onto the internal hard drives (single drives not in RAID).

[SteveRiley]

Add the nomodeset parameter to the kernel boot line in GRUB.

[DeadlyOats]

So, when the disk shows the menu options, click one of the options and get into the command line and type 'nomodeset' and hit enter?

[Buddlespit]

Press shift at boot to have the grub menu show, add nomodeset right after "quiet splash". It should look like "quiet spash nomodeset"

[DeadlyOats]

O.K. Sorry for the delay in reply. I finally gave it a try today. I should have wrote it down, but there was a lot more stuff then just "quiet splash" written up there.

Shift did not work, instead it said to press "e" to edit GRUB 2, or something to that effect. I pressed "e" and got a few lines of text. I moved the cursor to "text text text text text blah blah blah quiet splash -- " and entered "nomodeset", after the "--"

Then, in accordance to what it said on the screen, I hit the F10 key.

It worked! Thanks! Now, all I have to do is wait for Ubuntu forums to come back on so that I can look up how to dual boot 'buntu and Win7.... I totally forgot about what a nightmare dual booting has become. Anyway, one problem solved. Thanks again.

[SteveRiley]

Do you really need to dual boot? It's a pain to configure, and with Windows often assuming that it's the only thing [ on the computer | that matters to anyone ] you will find yourself having to repair the boot process periodically. Better would be to install only Kubuntu on the metal, and then run Windows inside a virtual machine using VMware Player or VirtualBox.