24th January 2017, 10:46
Hi kdemeoz,
Does your laptop have Optimus? If yes, then removing Nvidia-prime with installed Nvidia driver will DEFINITELY kill the whole boot process and you will just get a black screen as you described. This package contains the needed files that enable the OS to distinguish between 2 GPUs and enable the boot process to decide which GPU to use. Nvidia driver completely screws up the system where Optimus is present without this package (believe me, I've had my share of hours with it ;-) )
So I'm completely not surprised by the fact that the Tower went without any problems (since it doesn't have Optimus for sure) and the Laptop went to hell (since it probably has Optimus).
Does your laptop have Optimus? If yes, then removing Nvidia-prime with installed Nvidia driver will DEFINITELY kill the whole boot process and you will just get a black screen as you described. This package contains the needed files that enable the OS to distinguish between 2 GPUs and enable the boot process to decide which GPU to use. Nvidia driver completely screws up the system where Optimus is present without this package (believe me, I've had my share of hours with it ;-) )
So I'm completely not surprised by the fact that the Tower went without any problems (since it doesn't have Optimus for sure) and the Laptop went to hell (since it probably has Optimus).