yanksguy
January 4th, 2009, 05:11 PM
Please bear with me on this somewhat lengthy post. I've been combing the forums for answers but nothing is working for me.
I've been trying to install Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire 5050 to no avail. I've tried Intrepid 8.1 and Hardy 7.1, but I only get as far as the third bar on install and then it freezes (Intrepid) or toward the end of the install bar and a freeze (Hardy). I've tried both the 32 and 64 bit installs. I then tried Mandriva thinking that a different distro would work, but that froze up as well.
My Acer came loaded with Vista and gigabytes of bloatware from Acer. It worked for about 3 months and then crashed hard. I couldn't even reinstall from the partition. Acer support was no help at all. They didn't even think my pc existed even though I sent them the serial number and copy of my invoice. Grrr...
So at that point I installed XP, which worked, but started thinking Linux, mainly because I have friends who swear by it. I checked out different distros and came to Ubuntu. To check it out I loaded 8.10 onto a Gateway 450ROG (32 bit, 1.4 MHz, M processor, with 1gb ram) and it started up right away. It was AWESOME! I'm a total convert now! After the Gateway success I wanted to load it onto my Acer (the Gateway is my company computer and they don't want Ubuntu on it. Oops...)
So, now I'm at the point that nothing is loading. I have tried numerous times to get this to work. I've used the officially wrapped Ubuntu disk, downloaded and burned several others (all checked out okay before attempting load), downloaded and tried the 64-bit, and tried Hardy Heron 7.1. I have run DBAN before each load to make sure that I had a clean system. I tried loading xp first and then Ubuntu alongside but it still wouldn't load.
Nothing is working, and I've tried, tried, tried to make it work. I'm an noob at Linux but not with pc's. I've built several pc's by myself and have loaded many os's (windows and mac) before.
I've read that some people have had trouble with Acer, Atheros, 64-bit, and SATA working while others have no trouble at all.
I'm stymied. Please help me.
System:
Acer Aspire 5050
AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual-Core TK-53
1700 MHz
Hitachi 120 Gb hdd
2gb Ram
Atheros Wireless 802.11 b/g with Signalup high efficiency antennae
Atheros AR5BXB63
ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 integrated graphics (64-256mb shared memory)
ATAPI Model: HL-DT-ST-DVDRAM GSA-T20N
BIOS: v 1.3315
VGA BIOS: ATi 008.050I.052.000
KBC: VO.029
That should about cover the specs.
I've been trying to install Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire 5050 to no avail. I've tried Intrepid 8.1 and Hardy 7.1, but I only get as far as the third bar on install and then it freezes (Intrepid) or toward the end of the install bar and a freeze (Hardy). I've tried both the 32 and 64 bit installs. I then tried Mandriva thinking that a different distro would work, but that froze up as well.
My Acer came loaded with Vista and gigabytes of bloatware from Acer. It worked for about 3 months and then crashed hard. I couldn't even reinstall from the partition. Acer support was no help at all. They didn't even think my pc existed even though I sent them the serial number and copy of my invoice. Grrr...
So at that point I installed XP, which worked, but started thinking Linux, mainly because I have friends who swear by it. I checked out different distros and came to Ubuntu. To check it out I loaded 8.10 onto a Gateway 450ROG (32 bit, 1.4 MHz, M processor, with 1gb ram) and it started up right away. It was AWESOME! I'm a total convert now! After the Gateway success I wanted to load it onto my Acer (the Gateway is my company computer and they don't want Ubuntu on it. Oops...)
So, now I'm at the point that nothing is loading. I have tried numerous times to get this to work. I've used the officially wrapped Ubuntu disk, downloaded and burned several others (all checked out okay before attempting load), downloaded and tried the 64-bit, and tried Hardy Heron 7.1. I have run DBAN before each load to make sure that I had a clean system. I tried loading xp first and then Ubuntu alongside but it still wouldn't load.
Nothing is working, and I've tried, tried, tried to make it work. I'm an noob at Linux but not with pc's. I've built several pc's by myself and have loaded many os's (windows and mac) before.
I've read that some people have had trouble with Acer, Atheros, 64-bit, and SATA working while others have no trouble at all.
I'm stymied. Please help me.
System:
Acer Aspire 5050
AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual-Core TK-53
1700 MHz
Hitachi 120 Gb hdd
2gb Ram
Atheros Wireless 802.11 b/g with Signalup high efficiency antennae
Atheros AR5BXB63
ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 integrated graphics (64-256mb shared memory)
ATAPI Model: HL-DT-ST-DVDRAM GSA-T20N
BIOS: v 1.3315
VGA BIOS: ATi 008.050I.052.000
KBC: VO.029
That should about cover the specs.