After installing Ubuntu Server 16.04.1 LTS on an MSI N3150I ECO motherboard with 64bit processor, 2TB drive, the system fails to boot. I have clear legible screen through the entire install process. The system shows the GRUB2 menu, but after choosing UBUNTU to boot, the screen displays a few system level text info pieces and then goes to a garbled white static screen.
At this point the keyboard is locked up. I have tried NumLock and CapsLock and Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart. None of those are functioning as expected for a non frozen system.
Other things tried:
- change the display to 1024x768. Same thing. garbled screen
- Put drive in a different system. Works fine. except for rename the network card in config. to be expected.
- Tried reinstall with force UEFI and also just using legacy boot. Both have the same issue. Garbled screen after grub menu is acknowledged.
- Tried reinstalling Intel HD graphics drivers on other system and then bringing back to the MSI motherboard system. No change.
- vbeinfo and vbetest seem to pass when in grub command line.
Anything else I should try?