That’s one of the first things I did actually, I’ve found basic things that I don’t usually consider tend to end up being the problem for me in the end, however it’s not the case this time.

I was considering doing that as a last resort. My understanding is that nomodeset just pretty heavily nerfs GPU performance, you can’t do GPU acceleration, things will be a lower resolution etc, and again this machine doesn’t even have a dedicated GPU so for the use case I imagine the device in that shouldn’t really matter. I’ve been using it with nomodeset just fine and everything looks great and I don’t feel like I’m getting a lesser experience, but if I can get a permanent fix that works I’d rather go with that.

I guess that compatibility could be worth checking, but besides the swap for the SSD it is all the original components, I’d assume there wouldn’t really be any issues with that. I’m not gonna turn anything down though it could be worth just giving that a quick try.

Oh yes sorry I should have specified. It’s not just a black screen or anything it’s as though I unplugged the hdmi cable or something. I’ll see the Linux mint logo for a bit, it’ll fade to black, then my monitor just says “no signal” and turns itself off. The computer is still on, it’s not like it shuts itself off, it just doesn’t output anything.