mcu request failed, no responce from hardware

[adrianm]

last night it all worked just fine, booted up this morning and it freezes on the login page (cursor blinks but cant type or move mouse pointer)

Just before the splash screen there is a moment where a light blue screen with an error message appears but it does stay long enough to read it (tried several times) The most i could get was something about MCU request failed or some such - seems like a hardware issue but absolutely nothing has changed since it last worked (unless kubuntu applied some patch in the background while shutting down)
and the hard disk hasnt failed/i can boot other os's etc

Does anyone know what the issue is? or failing that any way to make the error message stay until you press enter or something?

[adrianm]

Re: mcu request failed, no responce from hardware

im fairly sure its an issue with my propriatry nvidia drivers, I also had massive trouble installing in the first place and had to use the command line installer.

I want to just reinstall meercat and be done with it but im worried the issue will follow me SO....from a fresh install how do i make sure I install a previous driver rather than the up to date one? - (I know practically nothing about linux so simpleton step by step instructions would be great )