Yet Another Blank Screen During Installation

Hi - I'm attempting to install Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS with no luck.

When I select Try Ubuntu without installing, the splash screen loads, the dots animate, the USB lights up; but after a few seconds, the dots stop animating and the USB goes dark. From there, the only thing I can do is CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart.

I've searched for possible causes but haven't found anything that works:

- Adding nomodeset shows me a blank screen instead of the splash screen.
- Adding grub_gfxmode has no effect. I've tried grub_gfxmode=1920x1080x32, grub_gfxmode=800x600x32 and every resolution in between.
- Turning Hibernate off via powercfg.exe /hibernate off as an admin has no effect.
- There doesn't appear to be a Fast Startup option on this notebook.
- Removing silent and/or splash has no effect.
- Adding acpi=off has no effect
- Adding nolapic loads the splash screen which does eventually change...to a blank screen.
- Verifying the ISO/USB image.
- Verified that Secure Boot is disabled.

Is there something else I should try? I'm a long-term Ubuntu Server user and want to switch from OS X to Ubuntu Desktop.

I've installed Ubuntu several times in a VM (including on this notebook) with no problem; I'm guessing it has something to do with the video card, but I don't have any external monitors to use for debugging.

Here are my notebook specs:

Sager NP8174
- 7th Gen Intel Core i7-7700HQ Processor
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
- 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory
- 256GB OCZ RD400 NVMe M.2 SSD
- Intel Wireless-AC 8265 + Bluetooth
- Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit Edition

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much!