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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.

Nicholas
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    Can you explain what exactly the problem you are encountering? – Daniel Baktiar Apr 20 '16 at 06:02
  • 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 06:38
  • UEFI to Legacy mode in Boot Mode will fix this problem – bhordupur Apr 20 '16 at 06:43
  • 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 06:50
  • Is it because of my VGA? – Nicholas Apr 20 '16 at 06:56

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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 05:59
  • No problem. I had some problems with BIOS too (on Lenovo G50). – NonStandardModel Apr 22 '16 at 06:09