New Installation - System just keeps rebooting

[wpshooter]

Then, that being the case, what I would do is get www.killdisk.com and WIPE that hard drive completely clean (this is assuming that you don't have anything on it that you need to save) and then I would attempt a fresh installation of Ubuntu from a verified copy of the ALTERNATE version of Ubuntu.

Good luck.

[mreyeros]

Thanks WPShooter I will give that a try when I get home in a bit and will post back again with my findings

[mreyeros]

oooh one question how would I currently run this application against my hard drive(s)????

[mreyeros]

I am running the killdisk app now against my drives and will attempt reinstall after it completes I also ran a checksum on the 64bit alternate cd that I downloaded and the hashes are the same. I will make sure to run the cd check utility at the ubuntu menu also when I am able to reinstall

[mreyeros]

ok I finally finished the install late last night after running the killdisk app. The one thing that I noticed right away was that the installation took alot longer than the last time I ran it. I was abl to log into the system once and then the crashes started again. The system does not stay up for more than 5 minutes and it crashes and reboots. I have also had instances where it just simply hangs on the desktop. It also seems to be alot slower than the last time that I installed it. When logging in it takes almost 30 seconds to see the taskbar and the desktop background and even here the tribal drums. I just about to give up on this and just reformat and reinstall my vista os. I did not think that it would be this hard to get this os up and running. Any further assistance would be great.

[BDNiner]

Do you have temperature monitors in your BIOS? The PC could be shutting off because it is overheating. Your hardware specs indicate that you should run ubuntu with little problems. So i would look at the actual hardware to detemine what is causing problems. Do you have a PCI network card installed?

[milton1]

Can you please list your hard drive partitions and formats?

[Linux_Man]

Have you tried to boot it in failsafe mode? If Ubuntu is the only OS on the computer GRUB defaults to having you press ESC to open up the menu.

[forger]

While grub boots up, try pressing the "Esc" key,
choose Ubuntu 8.04 (recovery mode)

This should get you in a safe environment, try executing: dmesg
Or you could check out the log files in /var/log/ such as:

/var/log/messages
/var/log/dmesg
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

you can check them out with the more command, i.e.: more /var/log/messages
(space jumps page, enter jumps line, q quits)

look for segfault or error or something like that

[mreyeros]

BDNiner, yes I have a Linksys PCI NIC installed in this box. I also have an onboard integrated LAN but i think that I disabled it when I was running vista on this same box because it was giving me trouble in vista.