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So, I tried starting it up in recovery mode root shell or whatever, and it shows the command prompt. Then I login, and it says welcome, I go to my downloads folder and type sudo sh NVIDIA...256.44.run and it says I need to be in telinit 3, so I get out of the installation and type sudo telinit 3.well that brings me up to a login command so I type my username then it askes for a password, which I also fill in.Now it says incorrect login. So I try again, and it keeps going on, but then I noticed that it puts the first letter of my username infront of Password.And the only way I can get out of that is by Alt + Ctrl + Del to restart, same when I shutdown gdm.

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Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
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Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel:Stack:

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: 00000002 00000001 c117a740 c12f52a0 c103ba20 c103ba60 c103baa0 c110a600

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: c110a640 c110a6e0 c136f800 c10ebc40 c10ebc60 c10ebc80 c114e2e0 c114e260

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c048bf17>] ? shrink_list+0x24d/0x4e1

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
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Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
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Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
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Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
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Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
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Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c048c8dc>] ? kswapd+0x369/0x51b

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c048b14e>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x19b

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c044065d>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
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Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
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Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c048c573>] ? kswapd+0x0/0x51b

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
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Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c044031a>] ? kthread+0x0/0x6f

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
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Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel:Code: f6 43 ea 01 75 24 8b 85 78 ff ff ff f6 40 08 40 0f 84 63 03 00 00 89 f0 e8 88 14 01 00 85 c0 0f 84 2d 03 00 00 bf 01 00 00 00 89 <f0> e8 db f0 ff ff 89 85 7c ff ff ff 8b 46 08 85 c0 78 2b 83 bd

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c048b90e>] shrink_page_list+0x1b0/0x56c SS:ESP 0068:dfa29d80

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