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Dell Vostro 270 Intel Core i3 (3rd Gen) 3220 / 3.3 GHz GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Basically stock but with the PSU and GPU upgraded.
Running two monitors off of the GPU.

So what's happening is that the grub screen only has a blank screen until it loads Kubuntu, then it pulls up the sign in screen just fine. I dual boot with Windows 10, though, so would like to be able to see it so I can select Win10 when I need it.

I'm assuming that it's not loading the nvidia drivers until it gets past the grub screen, and that's why it's unable to show anything on the monitors until that point.

Is there a way to make the monitors hooked up to the gpu able to load at startup, instead of after the OS is selected?

Both OS's work fine after selected btw.
Sorry if I've left out any info, feel free to let me know and I'll get it for you. Still new to a lot of this

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How many outputs are on your GPU card? I've heard of a problem where BIOS and grub (i.e., the parts before the OS is loaded) appears on one output but not all of them. For example, BIOS and grub might appear on the VGA output and not Display Port. Either when you have one monitor or in a dual monitor configuration. Also, IMHO, if even BIOS doesn't show up, then there isn't anything you could do to your Ubuntu installation. – Ray Aug 27 '17 at 16:47
    
@Ray Thanks for the response! It has 3 displayport, 1 hdmi, and 1 dvi. It's the one from this link I'll definitely try different outputs. – user280624 Aug 27 '17 at 20:14
    
@Ray So the problem was that I still had the vga plugged into the mobo, so it was defaulting to that even though it wasn't plugged into anything on the other end of the cable. Everything's working great now. Thanks for the help! – user280624 Aug 27 '17 at 23:21
    
Oh! I didn't think the video card or the computer would care if there wasn't anything on the other end of the VGA cable. That's good to know! Thanks and glad you figured out the problem! – Ray Aug 28 '17 at 11:56

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