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I just bought myself a Acer V3-574G with core i7 and Nvidia Geforce 940m 2gb vga with 12gb Ram with factory installed Win-10. I am having problem installing any linux distro on it even after I dissable UEFI. Coluld somebody please tell me how I could install linux on this computer.

Thank you

Nick.

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Can you explain what exactly the problem you are encountering? – Daniel Baktiar Apr 20 '16 at 6:02
    
It starts with the DVD or even USB like normal GRUB screen with the menu, and when I choose try without installing or even installing it goes to a blank black screen and tells me " 0.002855 ACPI: unable to load the system description tables. " and nothing happens afterwords. – Nicholas Apr 20 '16 at 6:38
    
UEFI to Legacy mode in Boot Mode will fix this problem – bhordupur Apr 20 '16 at 6:43
    
I have disabled UEFI and loaded on Legacy and I have been getting the same message. I tried with Ubuntu 15.10,Mint 17, New Ultimate and Gparten and it was all the same issue.... – Nicholas Apr 20 '16 at 6:50
    
Is it because of my VGA? – Nicholas Apr 20 '16 at 6:56
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With Acer it could be a BIOS problem. Go look at Acer support pages if there is an BIOS update for your (EXACT) model of computer. If yes, follow the instructions there to install it. I had to do it with Lenovo. In my case the BIOS update was only possible in Windows.

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Ok dude, I will try and will let you know...... Thank you so much for your help....... – Nicholas Apr 21 '16 at 10:11
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Hey mate, I updated the bios and tried installing, and it worked...... Thank you very much for that info. I usually try all possible way but this I did not think cos of the new Laptop. Thanks a lot. – Nicholas Apr 22 '16 at 5:59
    
No problem. I had some problems with BIOS too (on Lenovo G50). – NonStandardModel Apr 22 '16 at 6:09

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