I am in need of some help. It has been 2 weeks since I bought my first ever windows laptop with the aim of replacing windows but I have been unsuccessful.
The hardware is as follows : Asus 15' F550D with A8 AMD processor and Radeon HD 8670M graphics The laptops runs EFI "bios"
I managed to switch off Fastboot and Secure boot in EFI
so far I managed to to boot from USB which I mounted the Ubuntu 13.10 on but I can not get pass the GRUB menu as no matter when I chose I end up facing a black screen with back light on and I can not get anywhere beyond that.
I have tried the following with no success:
alternative versions of ubuntu ( 13.04 , 12.10 and Kubuntu 13.10 {all 64 bit}) problem remains.
editing the boot options in grub and using "nomodeset"
what can I try next ? any other suggestions ?
please help Windows 8 is sucking life out of me !!!
In a perfect world I would be aiming to have a dual boot system but if it's easier to lose the big virus living in my system , Windows 8, then i'm more than happy to go with that . ...