I just did a brand new install of Xubuntu on my old NCS computer Model: NBC105-ts05

Anyways, after the install it said it would restart but after it restarted the bios loaded up like normal and when it got the part where linux should start loading instead of loading it went black screen. I left it on for 3 hours to see if it was just a VERY VERY slow load but still its black screened.

Try some of the other boot up options, such as "safe mode" or console only.

I am not familiar with that make of computer, but you can try adding some options to the boot process!
Could first try booting to text mode to see if the problem is with X, this may be available as a menu choice on boot screen!
Or specify a generic video mode by passing vesa (??) to the kernel.

Are you getting anything displayed ie scrolling on the screen before it goes black?
Do you know what video card/chipset you are using? motherboard?

I have a (old) machine that does similar (Ubuntu, zenwalk, mepis)- try the following to see if X isn't handling things properly.
Just hit <ctrl>-<alt>-<bspc> and see if X exits and restarts and gives you the login screen. Try a couple of times in need.

So how do I add these other options like safe mode of console only? I have no clue what I'm doing lol.

Ok I got some stats of the laptop from the memory tester.

Pentium 3 1194 MHZ
L1 cache: 32k 11703 mb/s
L2 Cache: 256k 5851 MB/s
Memory: 368 269 MB/s

Thats all I saw that seemed useful

First off you are probably using GRUB, if not disregard everything that follows!

When you boot up your PC (after the POST) you will see a menu screen, quickly press the <down> key to stop the timer for the default boot.
On the screen there is often a menu choice for a text/console/rescue/non-gui/single-user mode, select it using the <up> or <down> cursor keys then press <enter>.
If there is none, then you will need to edit an existing menu choice by passing additional "boot options" to the kernel.
You might want to do a search on this web site for how to do this!
But from memory, I believe what you will need to do is:
1)select the menu choice
2)press <e> to edit that choice
3)select the line that starts with "kernel"
4)press <e> to edit the "kernel" line
5)enter the number 2 or 3 at the end of the line to specify console mode
6)press <enter>
7)press <b> to boot with the changes
You can pass other parameters to Linux at step 5, eg vesa for a generic video mode on some distros.

This should boot Linux into a console mode (ie no GUI or X mode).
If you get the Login prompt then most likely the problem is a video card driver problem or your X config is not correctly configured!
You might be able to try running X manually by entering startx.
Use <ctl-alt-backspace> to abort X.


You may need to determine the video card in your system in order to get it to work properly!