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should i turn off pc with power outlet?

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[–] buwho@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it is a text based environment of you OS, you can switch between multiple text based environments. if your graphical environment is just black, but the OS is still active you should be able to switch to another text based environment using that key combo (ctrl-alt-f2 or f3 or f4 etc.) from there you can potentially roll back the driver, view system logs to troubleshoot, etc.

[–] Mister_Bald@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good explanation! When I had this issue that he has, I was unable to switch between tty's because there was no output at all. Should only need to force restart for it to come back and be fine. But always a good reminder to have backups, time shift is my best friend!

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] buwho@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

i guess cross your fingers and do a hard reboot!

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If the PC has been running all this time, i would just hard reset it by now. Hopefully it will come back up, if not I hope you made a back up recently to restore, otherwise reinstall fresh.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

monitor wont eveb pick up input