brace yourself-- im a brand new convert to be but i ak having issues and i think i know what it is but have no clue how to fix it, or what it would be callled in here.
tonight i have tried to run both 12.10 and 12.04.1 from usb, from live disc, and under full install to a 1tb drive and i keep having the same issue whidch makes me think its a driver problem
i get a purplish menu screen with the normal choices and a line of fkeys across the bottom
no matter what i click next, the next screen i will get will say ubuntu with a line of running dots
it goes out and the next thing i get looks like denim stripes and thast as far as it goes, no matter how long i wait or what i try
when i boot back into win 7, there is usually an ubuntu folder on the drive i was installing to but virtually nothing in it
my guess is its a video driver issue----, but i never get to a screen where i have any options and if i am, all i get is dots--like 8 bit graphics--win 95 style
if it helps, im running a 4 screen config with dual ati 5 and 6000 hd series cards on a quad with 16gb of ram and a ssd for my main and a 1tb im experimenting with for ubuntu
any help at all would sure be nice--im lost here
edit -1 hour later
I have seen some startup screen shots - i have nothing that looks anything like these - everything im seeing is all like bad video drivers-- nothing clear or normal
i removed one then the other video card -no change - - everything is still pixelated and nearly unreadable-- and i cant get 5 seconds beyond any screen before i get the bluish pruple denim looking screen -- the screen flashes on and off about every 10 seconds-- but there is absolutely no print
if i hit f4 i see something similar to the pendrive linux im used to seeing for my OCZ ssd toolbox-- that looks normal but it rapidly runs the a bunch of lines then the blue screen--similar to a windows blue screen but no restart and no print on it and it willl sit like that forever and blink on and off about every 10 seconds-----really i have no clue what is wrong
if i cant get beyond this im stuck in ******* forever i guess - help please
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